Her face and her body reflect her discernment and her strong likes and dislikes and have taught me to embrace people while guarding a healthy body and to not like or dislike too much. Because when you gaze into an abyss the abyss gazes back at you and if you gaze into happiness the happiness gazes back at you.
Her scathing words and curses and sometimes her guarded appreciation have taught me that words should be truth and should always generate love. She has taught me to never exaggerate and never covet what others have and to be happy with what one has.
She has gifted me the love of reading and writing that will forever shape me and she has taught me that forgiveness should be deep and absolute.
She has taught me that I should give hope to all and keep my judgments aside because you never know what suffering a life has faced and what care and love it needs.
In not giving it and much in her non-being she has taught me to not hanker after praise and appreciation because they may not be forthcoming.
She has also taught me life's most valuable lesson that the people you love may not love you back the way you need or want and that's life's harshest truth. She has taught me to look within and as the Buddha said "Be my own refuge." Because that's the only way to happiness.
She has taught me that one can be happy even though one is greivously misunderstood and that knowledge can only go so far; true knowledge is in knowing and understanding yourself because then you understand all, true love is loving yourself because then you can love and embrace all.
She has taught me a legacy and I'm bound to her by karma. She has taught me the values of compassion and forgiveness and I vow to do my duties by her and love her. I am indebted to her for giving me life and for carrying me in her womb and allowing me to shape my individuality.
And most importantly, she has always taught me the value of taking action, something I must imbibe.
She has taught me not to crib and complain, something I am learning still and will eventually learn.
She has taught me that true beauty is the beauty of the soul.
She has taught me not to be proud.
My blessing for my mother (all my blessed life I'll keep blessing mother in all ways because she is the greatest gift of God to me, she is my mother): Ma may you always reign in regal beauty and happiness with that softness of speech and heart that I love. May you always have God's infinite love, Grace and blessings or life's infinite love, Grace and blessings as you want to see it. May you forever in all existence be free of suffering and see the fulfillment of your desires and may your desires be in harmony with God and life and may you always nurture and may life's greatest blessing on you be that your dignity and self-respect are always protected, always safe and secure from hurt and harm and may you always in all eternity enjoy security. I will always love you for all eternity. Thank you for giving me birth.
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