Grant yourself permission to be loved

It's amazing how much energy we can channel into chasing love and approval from those who cannot provide it. It’s like this impression gets entangled and attached with the wrong people -
the neglectful ones,
the abusive ones,
the ones who have yet to move towards love.
And then this entanglement turns into a prison, locking us inside of our own fantasy, waiting for a saviour or a recognition that will never come.
Because some people cannot love-
they just can’t.
Some people cannot stop taking their misery out on others, and locking you in with their unresolved pain.
The greatest act of self-love is to let them go into their darkness, and to walk towards your own light.
It doesn't matter who they are-
parents,
siblings,
partners,
ex-partners,
friends...
Let them go.
Grant yourself permission to be loved.
Universal Love, God or Subconscious or whatever you call it already stamped you with supreme approval.
That you are here is proof of your innate significance.
There is no need to look for it in those who cannot give it.
No need to wait on the ones not on their journey.
Begin with those who are aware of your value,
begin in the mirror.
Stay there until you see what has always been true.
There's a lighthouse in your soul, shining bright through your divine self.
Look close, closer, closest, until you see...
​You.

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