
Photo Credit : Vikram Phale “Honor The Light Within You”
I may not boost your ego
I will honor your soul
I may not respect authority for sake
I will honor you as human whole
I may not see age or gender
I will honor your authentic core
I may not bow to your demand
I will surrender to your regard or love
I may not beg or be belittled
I will seek your wisdom galore
P.S. Dear Debbie, I gladly contribute this post to Forgiving Fridays. May we together honor the essence of our being, and of those around us.
and I certainly love this Pragal ❤ ❤ ❤
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🙂 🙂 Thank you so much for your agreement my friend!!
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very well penned.
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Thank you very much for reading.
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You are most welcome.
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Read mine as well. I have tried to in this post.
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I do follow you and I mostly read all those I follow from the Reader 🙂 …I should be finding yours too.
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Very beautiful Pragal!
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Thank you very much for your visit and kind comment.
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Very strong sentiments written beautifully.
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I am so glad you think so, thank you very much.
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I do and you are most welcome 🙂
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Respect, self respect, fellow being resoect..
Great post as always
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That’s the word and like you said it …for self and others. Thank you very much!
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What a way to love someone! Simply amazing!!
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Thank you so much dear Meenakshi. I am happy that you visited 🙂
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Pleasure is mine Pragal! Visiting here is so serene and peaceful!
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As usual, you convey your message so clearly by using contrast. What a different world this would be if we honoured everyone’s authentic core!
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That would be a beautiful world indeed. I wish to live this way more easily. I lived more with the grief over the unhappiness of the other …for my inability to cater to their ego. Thank you very much my friend, it makes me very happy that you see my message clearly.
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It IS a beautiful world and you are on a most beautiful journey, dearest Pragal, do hear this from a kindred soul who knows what it means to live with this consuming grief. Our struggles often go unseen by those around us, for they are not responsible for our bearing their burdens, nor is gratitude ever an obligation. Let the liberation from the ego expand from inside of us to those who are ready and let us quietly bless everyone else too. So much wisdom in these lessons of ours, accelerating our remembering, personally and collectively.
So grateful for you and a transparently healing embrace
💜🙏
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Wow! You gift me such words of universal grace and kindness.
nor is gratitude ever an obligation – These words just granted me another level of freedom. I receive and ask the same as you – allow me to reach those who would welcome me and bless all others too!
I feel immense gratitude for your offering of these blessed words to me. THANK YOU
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I believe I know what you mean about feeling grief over someone else’s unhappiness. It’s not easy to see past someone’s ego and discover their core.
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Your understanding of this feeling gives me comfort. Yes, it is not easy. It is a challenge in close relations and interactions.
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Yes, the closer one is to someone, the more difficult it becomes. ♥
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Oh I love this poem! Honoring the Light in each of us – so beautiful ❤
I'd be honored if you contribute this post for Forgiving Fridays. I was away on vacation & plan to do my next one this Friday!
Many blessings to you. Gorgeous. Debbie
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So very glad to have you back! Can’t wait to read from you 🙂
Thank you so much for kindly supporting my work always. I will contribute this one! I wasn’t sure if any of my previous posts could be a good contribution to you. At your ease, do check them out and let me know 🙂 Either your thoughts on them or if you would like me to contribute any one of those to ForgivingFridays.
Much love, gratitude and joy to you dear friend!
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Oh Pragalbha, you are welcome to contribute any of your poems for Forgiving Fridays! Really, this is an opportunity for YOU to express yourself with forgiveness however that moves your heart! For example, this week I may talk about flexibility in relationships and how it’s important not to “sweat the small stuff” because that’s what’s going on in my life right now.
So feel free to contribute whatever moves you! Gratitude, love, joy – all of those are related to forgiveness if they are for YOU. And your son is welcome to contribute as well. ❤ Blessings.
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Thank you for this rich explanation dear Debbie.
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❤
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It’s like your sitting there weaving through a relationship. Clearly and with love.
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Your words are a peaceful and uniquely powerful affirmation to me, thank you.
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You’re welcome 🙂
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Beautifully written! Your poems reflect the peace, contentment and joy within.
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Thank you so much for this kind acknowledgment.
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This is beautiful and timely needed. A big hug.
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I am so glad you think so! Thank you and Love to you.
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Loved it pragalbha, thats how one should show love and compassion without loosing their own self respect.
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Yes, self respect! Thank you very much for your affirming appreciation.
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😊😊😊
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This is so AMAZING!
Wonderfully dignified, and considerate to the other person’s as well as your happiness and respect.
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Thank you so much dear friend. Your comment is very thoughtful and well said.
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And that’s how I will honour the essence of what you are meant to be! 👍 Superb expressions. 🙂
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Yes that’s how we honor the essence 🙂 Thank you so much for your comment in agreement!
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My pleasure and your thoughtful expressions in words are beautiful!
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Much gratitude truly, my friend.
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Priceless !! Lot of clarity in your writing. Keep going, Pragalbha.
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Thank you for your encouraging words, I truly value it Deepika!
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Absolutely love how you convey such important messages in your poems! They’re so concise and beautifully written. Hope you’re having a wonderful week so far xx
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It makes me very happy you think so! Thank you so much for taking the time and your appreciation. It is indeed a great week going, I wish you the same.
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If this is gonna act as a reminder in all our mind, how wonderfully the world would have been changed…
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I am happy you think so Akhila. Yes, I wish this becomes our personal precepts to live by.
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supersonic on seventh
is too reduced to tokens
so the word
written virally
or spoken
my soul does
slowly awaken!
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Thank you
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yw what did i do?
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You left your beautiful words here.
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my pleasure
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The strength within so very well defined.
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I feel happy you see strength in this. Thank you very much for sharing your thought.
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You are sharing such an incredible message. If all of us would see and act as you described, this world would be a better one.
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I am truly happy you think so! Yes I believe these to be personal precepts to live by. Thank you so much for taking the time for sharing your thoughts.
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Very very well-written Praglabha. Missed reading your writings. Now that I am back on wordpress, I’ll make sure not to miss any of your posts! Keep going 🙂
-Kavita
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Please help me recollect if we have interacted before.
Thank you for your visit and hope to have your thoughts on my posts.
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Yes. I have already been a reader of your blog since long. I am Kavita Chavda, who used to own an individual blog on wp then started ‘Playing with words’ for which you wrote a guest post on happiness.
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Oh I remember! Thank you so much for reminding.
I wondered for a long time after that what happened to the blog post and my photo that I sent you. Did you go ahead with that project? Can you please give me the link?
Welcome back to wp! Wish you the best!
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This is my new website and going to take it on big level. I’ll consider that amazing post about happiness written by you for sure. I’ll let you know when I do 🙂
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What a wonderful sense of respect and strength there, Pragalbha.
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It makes me happy that you see the strength and reflect it back to me. We are so trained for respect only. Thank you very much.
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Absolutely, Pragalbha. It was such a beautiful poem.
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