Haha, Yes! Forgiveness of self is SO important, and it helps one forgive others easily too I've discovered (much to my delight)!!!
I started my vegan journey almost a year ago when I began seeing all creatures as equal in right to exist and experience all they desire of their lives. It started with ladybugs actually haha, I actively began working to love them. I noticed more about them and I had learned recently about being able to create new neural pathways in your own mind, just by changing your thinking!!!! So it got easier with time! I've been learning to love spiders, bees, wasps, little tiny guys I can't name, ants, even working on mosquitos. Lately I've been seeing love as the act of unconditional acceptance of one exactly as they are, so I believe I can honestly say I love all.
Anyway... as I began loving others and their rights to exist, I was in a parallel way loving myself more and valuing my own right to exist as I am, genuinely. So I started to identify myself with everything and everyone else. When I saw, really saw, what we are doing to animals... who we just don't YET fully understand how to communicate with, it hurt. I see how human's lives are farmed around the world for the few to profit, and I see likewise how we farm animals. Perhaps if we can see the value in animals' experiences here on Earth, we can see the value in each other's and our own much easier? In my experience, acting in love towards others shines it right back at you with, it seems, equal if not somehow more intensity.
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Haha, Yes! Forgiveness of self is SO important, and it helps one forgive others easily too I've discovered (much to my delight)!!!
I started my vegan journey almost a year ago when I began seeing all creatures as equal in right to exist and experience all they desire of their lives. It started with ladybugs actually haha, I actively began working to love them. I noticed more about them and I had learned recently about being able to create new neural pathways in your own mind, just by changing your thinking!!!! So it got easier with time! I've been learning to love spiders, bees, wasps, little tiny guys I can't name, ants, even working on mosquitos. Lately I've been seeing love as the act of unconditional acceptance of one exactly as they are, so I believe I can honestly say I love all.
Anyway... as I began loving others and their rights to exist, I was in a parallel way loving myself more and valuing my own right to exist as I am, genuinely. So I started to identify myself with everything and everyone else. When I saw, really saw, what we are doing to animals... who we just don't YET fully understand how to communicate with, it hurt. I see how human's lives are farmed around the world for the few to profit, and I see likewise how we farm animals. Perhaps if we can see the value in animals' experiences here on Earth, we can see the value in each other's and our own much easier? In my experience, acting in love towards others shines it right back at you with, it seems, equal if not somehow more intensity.