This is a compassionate corner of the web. Those that come here are trying to follow the stepping stones laid by Master Lin. Those of Love, Kindness and Forgiveness.
So to start, please feel assured that we do truly love you.
I'm not sure about the others, but I know that I don't always make the best choices. We each make choices and then it is past. What is important is Now, not the past. What choice are we going to make right now.
I know I need to show myself more kindness and love myself more, and especially forgive myself. What is done is done. My power is in my ability to form this moment. Will I use it well, or continue with habits that don't support me. Well, maybe I should just travel the path of good and better on the way to best.
I shouldn't judge myself if I find that right now I'm not best. It's just where I am. I believe that the path I'm travelling is for a purpose; even if I don't know what the purpose is I trust that it is for the best. Any judgement and lack of self-forgiveness moves me from where I am to a new place that is not better.
The problem is that every new Now offers to opportunity to travel a path that is not better. The great thing is that right after this moment passes we get another one, during which we can move along a better path, with the experience we gained along the other path.
As you open up to loving yourself and others, to forgiving yourself and others, you open yourself to an incredible power to be kind to yourself and others.
I picked love and forgiveness as the starting point, but kindness can be the starting point. They all open onto eachother.
I feel like I've started to ramble, but Scorpionsbabe I believe that you and your world can change in an instant. I warn myself and others, that looking for proof that it has happened restrict it from being. Live the life, don't waste your opportunity by spending your life looking for proof that is has changed. (Okay, now I know I'm going to far).
Scorpionsbabe, you are perfection.
Iam2 
[This message has been edited by Iam2 (edited February 03, 2006).]