It’s simply not possible to earn love or happiness. Love and happiness are our birthright.


whole new feeling of worthiness that did not depend on doing anything. I became a human being rather than a human doing. It’s simply not possible to earn love or happiness. Love and happiness are our birthright.


UNDERSTANDING OUR DUAL NATURE The healing of unworthiness lies in understanding our dual nature. I’ve said this before but it’s worth saying again; we are both human beings having a spiritual experience AND we are spiritual beings having a human experience. If we identify with either one, and push away the other, we delay our healing of unworthiness. If we’re only human beings having a spiritual experience, we become too identified with our unworthiness, and so cannot let it go. If we’re only spiritual beings having a human experience, we risk minimising or even denying our human feelings, including unworthiness. Healing our unworthiness depends on


our acceptance of our humanity and our divinity. Here’s an example. Many years ago, Ram Dass lived close and was an important teacher for us. He was writing a book about his guru, and had not spoken in public in many months. Then he received an invitation to speak at a


local college, the University of California Santa Cruz. We saw him the day of the talk. He admitted to us that he felt more nervous than he had in many years. He felt unworthy to speak as a teacher to so many people, and he had been praying deeply for divine help. Joyce and I went to the talk that


evening. We told him later that it was the best talk he had ever given. He actually agreed. He said he was more in touch with his humanity, and his unworthiness, than ever before. As a result, he also opened more to his divinity and his need for divine help.


AWARENESS OF YOUR DIVINE WORTHINESS One of my heroes is Saint Francis, a man who was intimate with his unworthiness. He actually took unworthiness to a whole new level. He often stood in the Piazza del Comune, the village square in Assisi, dressed in rags and acting like a fool. Even now he is referred to as the ‘Fool of God’. People called him names, spat at him. Children threw rocks at him. All the while, he thanked God for the


bad treatment. He actually celebrated his unworthiness! Was he a masochist? Not at all. He felt so close to his beloved Jesus while he was being abused. He became completely identified with


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Christ, who had suffered even worse abuse than himself. As a result, Francis also rose into a spiritual ecstasy, into a true awareness of his divine worthiness, his full divinity. Okay, maybe it’s a bit of a stretch to


celebrate your unworthiness. But still you can accept these feelings as part of accepting your full human condition. Only then can you more fully accept your divine condition and open to your original worthiness. We have always been worthy. We are all divine beings too. Nothing we have ever done, or could ever do, can take away our inherent worthiness. Yes, we all make mistakes, some


very big ones too. But we are not our mistakes. We are sparks of the one divine light. We deserve all the good the universe has to offer. When we know our worthiness, we are then free to give all of our love and make our dreams come true. ■


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Joyce & Barry Vissell, a nurse / therapist and psychiatrist couple since 1964, are counsellors living near Santa Cruz,


CA, who are widely regarded as among the world's top experts on conscious relationship and personal growth. They are the authors of The Shared Heart, Models of Love, Risk to Be Healed, The Heart’s Wisdom, Meant to Be, and A Mother’s Final Gift.


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