"The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves that we find in them." – Thomas Merton
Love. What is love? Today in society there are so many different notions of love. Movies, books, television, media, we are utterly and completely inindated with these opinions of love. But are these really love? I'm not sure I can answer that. I think love comes in so many forms, so many different styles that it is literally impossible to have a set definition for. So perhaps the question should be, What is love to you? For me, Love is pure. It is opening you whole heart and letting things in. It is loving them for what and who they are. It is letting go of expectations and prejudices and accepting everything. That is true love. Love is not looking at someone or something and seeing only the good about them, no that is not love. Love is being able to truly see someone, all of them, the good, the bad, the quirks, the little things and the big things and loving all of that, because it makes them who they are. Love is unconditional. Love is not tampered by opinion or anger or prejudice. Love is pure, strong and unmoving. Love does not care about what you look like on the outside, it looks down, deeply, and sees into your soul. It sees to the root of your being, all your talents, all your faults. It awakens in you a force so powerful that you feel as if you could change the world. Love is always light, never darkness. It heals and cleanses where ever it goes. Once love is awakened its seeds can be spread everywhere. Love will flourish in the darkness and offer hope to the hopeless. When all things are gone, Love will remain.
I believe that love should be shared. Once you find it, everywhere you go, every life you touch and every soul you see should feel this love. Love starts within, First you must learn to love yourself truthfully, purely and unconditionally, then you can begin to love everything else. Let this love fill you up on the inside and spill out into the universe. Just as I believe that you will get back exactly what you send out, when you send out love you will find love where ever you look. You will attract to your being the energy of love and people who understand it. The first step to love is acceptance. Allow it to change your life, allow it to expand your horizons.
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