How we handle ourselves and our relationships during hard times often reflects the quality and depth of our love.
How we handle ourselves and our relationships during hard times often reflects the quality and depth of our love.
Love is an action word and without action love dies a tragic death.
Love says:
“Your happiness and well-being are important to me.
I do things from time-to-time just for this reason, with no strings attached.
I do not do these things because I have to but because I truly want to.
I somehow missed the memo regarding love and giving. Did you get it? If so, I’d love to know what age you were when it arrived! I always have received great joy in giving… especially to those I love. Learning quite clearly how much better it is to give than to receive I would find …
In this moment I send Gratitude into the Universe as I let go of the need for others to accept me, like me and approve of all that I say or do. The striving for everyone to like me is pointless! Unless I give away or deny parts of myself on a daily basis I …
Here’s the thing, it is easy to see and to judge other people’s faults and wrongdoings. Super easy. So easy in fact we might assume that we are better than they are… you know, less “guilty”, “annoying” or “wrong”. When we look at ourselves we have a difficult time finding real fault… and even when …
The most enlightened of persons has empathy and compassion for her spouse or life partner. She should nurture, care for and love her spouse yet also be aware that her spouse’s soul is on his own journey and has his own purpose. Sometimes the journey includes watching our spouse make choices that are painful or unwise. …
People cannot give you what they do not have. At times it isn’t that our expectations for others are too high, too demanding or out of line with what we deserve… it is that the one we expect it from does not have it to give. Many things can contribute to this sad truth …
Forcing love just does not work. Specifically, holding onto a relationship that needs to evolve causes pain. It is not beneficial to resist change nor is it the loving thing to do for ourselves or for another. Change is indeed one of the few constants in this life! Holding on to a relationship you …