WE BE Naked ~ & Shameless ~ Dan Jones

"Shameless" by Dan Jones

Self Love is good humored and easygoing.
A Self loved body tingles with pleasure
like a sun warmed beach
when waves of Love wash over.
A Self Loved mind is at peace
does not turn against itself in criticism
does not strive to make up for itself
with a good show....
is content with itself, and therefore
has no fear, no anger, no greed
no hurry, no worry
just glides along like a white cloud
doing one thing at a time
as though it were serious.

Vanity and conceit have nothing to do with this,
and not arrogance and righteousness
those are the masks of shame.
The proud man....the vain woman
the smug, the selfish, the egotistical and stuck up
all the "better than"
the know it alls, and judges, and busybodies
inside they squirm with unworthiness worms
and have no Love for themselves.

Self Love is the spring, the Source
of All the rivers of Love that flow
It is the hive for all the honey,
the store for all the presents
It is a home of God.

It is not attention getting
It is not at anyones expense
It is free for all
It is everyone's birthright.

Unconditional
It cannot be earned or achieved
It is not because of anything
it is just there
like space
and it moves through the body
like a river of light.

Self Love is not different from humilty
humility means going easy on myself
about achievments and image
the puffed up masks and costumes
the dramas to stage myself
and be seen as the star of the show.
Humility means giving myself a rest
from the rush aginst time
the endless busy river
of explanations and justifications
and compensations and rationalizations
and stupefying lists of projects
for self improvement
and doing good
none of them ever enough
never enough, never enough
hurry along, there's more to do
more to do, more to do.......

Self Love has enough already
Delights to give itself away
like an ice cream machine overflowing.

Self Love verses Love of other
is a treachery to the heart
Love radiates
without Self Love
what is there to Radiate ?

How many grim relationships will we endure
trying to get the Love we fail to give ourselves?
sucking at a dry breast
when the milk is flowing in our own hearts
why should we wait for a Lover 
to fall in Love?
                                                   Dan Jones