When we place expectations upon others, they are unfair at best. Most of the time, the expectation is unknown to the other person and therefore, can never be met. When we place expectations upon ourselves, it's saying that we do not respect ourselves.

When we are at peace with ourselves, we understand that we are all one. We are not seperate from each other or anything else. Love is the only way.

Have you ever been lying in bed and heard your heartbeat?  Ever heard your lungs fill with air and then release it?  Why is it that we don't hear these sounds all the time?  Everywhere around us is sound, we surround ourselves with it.  Many of us can't be without it, not even while we sleep.  Why do we need to immerse ourselves in outside noises?  Why do we seek and find comfort is them?  Ever heard anyone say "it's to quite" ?  What's wrong with being quite?  With feeling the stillness?  If we can't hear the sounds that are inside us, that comfort us, that make us, how are we to ever hear what's outside?  Ever been so close to someone that you could hear their heartbeat? You just shared life with them, stillness with them, oneness with them.  You just became them, even if it were for only a moment.  How did that feel?  Comfortable silence is being able to hear your heartbeat in the middle of a crowded room.  When you can hear your own, now listen for everyone else's.  When you can hear your own, you ARE hearing everyone else's.

Looking around the room was an incredible experience
   Everything was in such vivid colors that I had never seen before
   The feeling of universal love was indescribable.
   There was a oneness with every molecule that exisisted.
   The warmth from the light was as pure as the light its self.
   How was it that I never noticed this before?
   Does everyone else see and feel this way too?
   I never want this to end.
   Maybe I am the only one who can see the light.
   Maybe I am the light.
   Maybe I have created it.
   I set up in bed, only to find that I could see, but was still blind.