What is love? Love is the most powerful force we have on this earth, yet they also say that love is the most unknown force we have..I believe love is to take something as part of ourselves, which means the light, and our shadow self. Unconditionally, not transactionally which unfortunately seems to be happening in most relationships in the world today. I read this the other day and it made me think about what love really means to me, how powerful love is.. and also the well known fact, if we don’t love ourselves we are really not capable of loving anyone else.
“The more I fall in LOVE with myself, the more I find myself in LOVE with the beauty around me.” Isn’t that the truth!
Every day, every moment, we make a choice to either love in a positive way or not, and always having a choice, it can change to a negative or positive in our lives so quickly. For example, I don’t think you can love your partner or friend in one moment and attack him or her the next.. If your “love” has an opposite, then it is not love but a strong need for a more complete and deep sense of self, a need that the other person temporarily meets. True love has no opposite.
This perfectly written paragraph really sums it all up.
“ The beginning of love, is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them. ”
- Michael Singer
Also when I do what I love I give more to the world in every way. It moves in waves and currents like the ocean and we are trying to hold on to it to control the situations and people around us, which never work. Everything you want to be, do, or have, comes from love. It heals and energizes every part of us. When I think about love it also can be very mysterious and it feels very powerful when it happens. For example, the love a parent feels for their child is indescribable in many ways. I always wondered if we need it to be unconditional for it to be true love..I believe unconditional love is the only love. I see so much transactional love nowadays, control and manipulation and it makes me sad. If you give this I give you that, and sometimes we are not even aware of what we do when it comes to love..The truth is if we can accept both the shadow and the light in a person and love them as a part of ourselves we would experience less divorces and separation and receive unconditional love and freedom which I believe we all want. But it takes courage and vulnerability which can be hard to reveal in ourselves.
It's also easy to love people who are like us. It's not as easy to love people who seem different. It's also not easy to love the way we sometimes feel, or unpleasant things that happen to us, but I believe even our negative feelings need to be loved and sometimes losing balance for love is part of living a balanced life.
Liam Neeson comments on love,
“ Everyone says love hurts, but that is not true. Loneliness hurts. Rejection hurts. Losing someone hurts. Envy hurts. Everyone gets these things confused with love but in reality, love is the only thing in the world that covers up all the pain and makes someone feel wonderful again. Love is the only thing in the world that does not hurt.”
Today’s Assignment;
Today look for Love! Give someone a hug you don’t know. We all need it!
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