"Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the Sacred Voice that calls us the Beloved. I'm putting this so directly and so simply because though the experience of being the Beloved has never been completely absent from my life, I never claimed it as my core truth.
I kept running around in it in large or small circles always looking for someone or something able to convince me of my belovedness. It was as if i kept refusing to hear the voice that speaks from the very depth of my being, "You are my beloved, on whom my favor rests."
That voice has always been there but it seems that I was much more eager to listen to other, louder voices saying, "Prove that you are worth something, do something relevant, spectacular, powerful...then you will feel the love that you so desire."
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