Once You Are Real

 May we all open our hearts to appreciating what

is real, to loving ourselves, our beautiful 

authentic selves, just as we are.

Just imagine if we could all 

increasingly see and understand 

the beauty of who we are,

if we could value and love 

what is real...

🙏 Molly

He said,

"You become. It takes a long time.

That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people

who break easily, or have sharp edges,

or who have to be carefully kept.

Generally, by the time you are Real, most

of your hair has been loved off, and your

eyes drop out and you get loose

in your joints and very shabby.

But these things don’t matter

at all, because once you are Real

you can’t be ugly, except to people

who don’t understand."

— Margery Williams

Excerpted from The Velveteen Rabbit