Promise #55: Celebrate your awesomeness

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Everything you ever needed to know about yourself is clearly evident by the time you turn two. Sometimes you just need to dust off a baby picture and celebrate your awesomeness. Click the words below for an even fuller picture.

Promise #53: Let love happen

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We are most alive when we’re in love.

-John Updike

We’re so willing to let sh*t happen, yet we’ll fight love tooth and nail.

We’ll resist the risky emotional investment required for future growth. We’ll deplete the energy required to dance on the edge of the horizon. We’ll run from the notion that it just might make us feel alive and giddy and —God forbid— happy.

Yet in the blink of an eye we’ll shrug our shoulders and accept a failed investment, tired body or boring, lifeless day.

I think that’s because we need to be open to let love happen. And being open to love requires us to be less accepting of the same, old sh*t.

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Many thanks to danielle at lovely birds photography

for sharing that picture of her (!) in love. Isn’t it beautiful?

Promise #27: Feel the ground

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The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

-Buddha

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If this is true

—if the foot feels the foot when it feels the ground—

then it stands to reason the ear feels the ear when it hears music

the eye feels the eye when it sees art

the nose feels the nose when it smells fresh air

the mouth feels the mouth with every kiss

the hand feels the hand when it grips the key to the heart

and the heart feels the heart when it is heartbreakingly empty or euphorically full.