Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, someone to love, and something to hope for.
You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving
Love is letting go of fear
How do you love people? Just accept them. Complete acceptance is unconditional love.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Real love begins where nothing is expected in return
Where there is love there is life
Phil said
Jul 31, 2005
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like brick; re-made all the time, made new. --Ursula K. LeGuin
We love to be loved; we love to be held; we love to be caressed. A show of appreciation we love too. And we love to know we've been heard. The friends, the spouses, the children in our lives want the same from us. Like a garden that needs water, sun, weeding to nurture the growth, so does love need attending to. To become whole and healthy, we need tender nurturing. And we also need to give away what we get. Those we nurture will bless our growth.
Love is dynamic, not static. It is always changing, and it always changes those it enfolds. Since coming into this program where the sharing of oneself, the open expression of love, is profoundly evident, we each have changed. And our presence has changed others. We have learned to accept love and give it. But better yet, we have learned that we deserve love.
I will look around me today at others, and I will remember, my growth and theirs depends on loving and being loved. I will reach out. I can make love new.
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, someone to love, and something to hope for.
You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving
Love is letting go of fear
How do you love people? Just accept them. Complete acceptance is unconditional love.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Real love begins where nothing is expected in return
Where there is love there is life
We love to be loved; we love to be held; we love to be caressed. A show of appreciation we love too. And we love to know we've been heard. The friends, the spouses, the children in our lives want the same from us. Like a garden that needs water, sun, weeding to nurture the growth, so does love need attending to. To become whole and healthy, we need tender nurturing. And we also need to give away what we get. Those we nurture will bless our growth.
Love is dynamic, not static. It is always changing, and it always changes those it enfolds. Since coming into this program where the sharing of oneself, the open expression of love, is profoundly evident, we each have changed. And our presence has changed others. We have learned to accept love and give it. But better yet, we have learned that we deserve love.
I will look around me today at others, and I will remember, my growth and theirs depends on loving and being loved. I will reach out. I can make love new.