Confidence and love. How are they related?
By emptychair
@innertalks (23740)
Australia
September 25, 2020 7:21pm CST
The confidence of love is assured to be in all, by all who love.
How is confidence related to love?
Confidence stems from an underlying trust in life, God, and love.
You trust, and so you know that things will always work out for the best.
Love's flow controls all.
Just live in the flow of that love, and confidence takes care of itself.
Love flows through the heart; confidence then exudes forth from the mind.
"Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy."
Lao Tzu, an ancient Chinese Philosopher, said this.
He is perhaps more talking from the human point of view, though.
How would we rewrite this from God's side of the equation?
Confidence lives in a heart that is loving, because it lives in a mind that trusts this heart.
Health has no meaning to confidence, that pushes past health, and other bodily concerns, to the underlying true position, of its soul within God.
Contentment is best found when it is not sought after by a mind greedy for it.
Contentment is the natural state of a loving heart.
This is both a state of being, and non-being, because the love lives in you, but it also allows you to live in God, at the same time, as it is living in you.
Only love has this dual quality of its oneness about itself.
Love works best in connection, union of duality, but love must not be removed from its position in the overall oneness of God either.
Active, or activated love, is the capacity of love for us to utilise it, so that we might enter into union with other focus points of consciousness in the overall oneness.
We love another, and so see God in all, including ourselves too, through this vehicle of consciousness.
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Confidence does not live outside of your self on a blackboard, and it cannot be pushed into you, by anyone else, either.
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@RasmaSandra (98005)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
26 Sep 20
At home when I do my online work I have confidence in myself that I will do it right but I lose confidence when I have to go out alone. Today I spoke to someone online and realized that this lack of confidence is due to the pandemic times. I used to go out more often. So I am thinking since I say a morning prayer each day I will add-in for the Lord to guide me with His love until I can get back into a normal routine of coming and going. I need to get out more and move about.
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@innertalks (23740)
• Australia
26 Sep 20
If you worry about your supposed needs to do something, who has it that has imposed these needs onto you?
Why go out, anyway?
Just be comfortable, with what you can do.
Or just go out, without thinking too much about it.
There is nothing wrong with isolation. We are our own person.
Just pour yourself into your writing more, or do what you love most doing, and following the love will bring you confidence back too.
Stop trying to do what you have to force yourself to do. That is just the tricky nature of a fearful mind.
Just love, and confidence always will follow.
We need to embrace the confidence of love.
That's my line of thought in this article anyway.
A morning prayer will help too, of course.
It connects you to the one true source of all love, and of all confidence too.
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@RasmaSandra (98005)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
26 Sep 20
@innertalks you are totally right and so at night before bed it is always the Lord's Prayer for me. Blessings to you.
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@innertalks (23740)
• Australia
26 Sep 20
@RasmaSandra Yes, a prayer at night is good, and another one when you are deciding about going out, might help too.
If we do all things with our hand within God's hand, we can do all things with confidence, as we do them with his help and love, behind them all, then too.
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@innertalks (23740)
• Australia
26 Sep 20
Thanks.
I am hoping that I am giving some people, some food for thought here too.
That's what a good lesson should always do too.
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@Shiva49 (28380)
• Singapore
26 Sep 20
When we merge with creation and love all without barriers, we find ,meaning in life all the time; there are no ups and downs but a life filled with and motivated by love.
We get carried away to project a contrived state of confidence in this material world but that is sort of a inflated ego.
The presence of the creator is everywhere, both the seen and the unseen. We should accept all as inspired from the only one source that is divine love - siva
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@innertalks (23740)
• Australia
27 Sep 20
That's well put, siva.
Confidence is only contrived when it is not based on love, and it is based then on mind, or ego, as you said, instead.
Real confidence never boasts, but is humble in its positivity too.
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@Shiva49 (28380)
• Singapore
27 Sep 20
@innertalks Real confidence also makes us speak our minds but without offending others.
It is imposing self-censorship if we overdo being too careful in hurting others with our words.
I feel nowadays, people tend to take offence even when our intentions are clear enough but try to twist and quote out of context.
I feel most people are considerate and can sieve wheat from the chaff and understand who we really are. There is no need to over emphasize our intentions - siva
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@innertalks (23740)
• Australia
27 Sep 20
@Shiva49 That's well said, siva.
The only place to overemphasize stuff is when we are painting a picture, or writing a poem. It can be a technique there.
The need to exaggerate/overemphasize comes from the need not to see the truth, but to look as if you know the truth.
It stems from pride.
The truth is simple and true, and it never needs to be exaggerated or overemphasised, as it can always talk for itself as itself, when we talk it through our self too.
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