“As I remember my spiritual heritage and stand within its power, I think, act, and then experience all of life differently. I’m about to judge someone and then I remember their eternal innocence. I’m about to share an unkind story I heard about someone, and then I remember, “what I do to others I do to myself.” I am about to reach for a win at another person’s expense, and I remember that there is no such thing. I am complaining about a situation, and I stop to ask myself, “What am I NOT contributing here?” This is the birth of my better self – a gradual and continuous process, as in any given moment I either listen to the ego or I listen to love.”
~ Marianne Williamson
Of all the wisdom in this excerpt of “The Gift of Change,” the simple yet profound truth that what I do to others, I do to myself stands out.
Just think about it the next time:
- You cut someone off in traffic
- You tell a lie
- You gossip
- You make someone look bad to make yourself look good
- You’re rude
- You ridicule someone’s dreams
- You devalue someone
- You stonewall
- You interrupt
- You degrade another person
- Your treat someone as if they are beneath you
What you do to others, you do to yourself.
- Be Kind
- Be Gentle
- Forgive
- Be Polite
- Be Respectful
- Love
- Use positive words
- Laugh
- Affirm
- Lift up
- Value
- Encourage
What you do to others, you do to yourself.
Namaste
“The Divinity within me perceives and adores the Divinity within you”
Check out my other blog, where I applied Williamson’s Words of Wisdom in the context of Remarried Families.
