Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused.   Alan Cohen I adore today's quote.  I am challenged by today's quote.  Today's quote starts my Rolodex of names, searching for the ones who love me in the ways today's quote describes and reminding me of who I love in this way.  In our humanness love is a tricky thing because we place conditions on it.   We place external and internal conditions on our love for others, we base it on performance, we define it according to our baggage.  Love in our humanness is a tricky, tricky thing.  And oftentimes we equate love and worth/value.  So if we are having a hard time loving someone then we also are probably having a hard time treating them with worth.   Back t...

Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.    Alan Cohen (Again there is that "it goes without saying" that I must talk about new beginnings with today's highlighted quote.  I'm okay with that.   :) ) What is it about human nature that says we can't start something - a diet, a new way of handling finances, a relationship, a job, etc - until the conditions are perfect?  Is that our subtle way of trying to get out of the thing that we know would be good for us?  Is that our subtle way of communicating that we are perfectionists, all of us?  I love today's quote  because  it just flat out speaks the truth about beginning something.  The conditions will never be perfect but beginning is the perfect condition.  Beginning is all that is necessary to attempting the new thing.   We will never know what the true conditions are until we begin.  And once we begin we may find th...