Sustainable Love

We expect so much from love

We want it to make us happy

We want it to take care of the rest of our lives

When....it comes

Love is always here

Yet it doesn't recognize itself

With all our conditions

It can only be love if so and so is cute

It can only be love if it is what makes me look good

It can only be love if it is what I wanted it to be,

We don't even let love surprise us anymore

We expect so much from it that when it is here we walk right by it like it wasn't there

A person tells you they love you and we even find a way to not believe them

And continue treating them as though they do not

We will believe that someone who gives us no attention loves us, because we desire them

And then someone who speaks in love to us, we discount

That alone is a lot more telling in itself

We respect those who don't love and want them too, that is the challenge

And we release those who love us because we don't respect them for loving us, because we don't love ourselves yet!

That is a no win situation

Love is love is love

Yes, I said this before

And Yes, it is worth saying again

Living in the moment allows you to love without expectation

That in this moment, I love my job, I am not waiting for another to love again

I love my spouse, I am not going to let my misunderstanding taint my love and thoughts of them

I love my children, even on days when they don't love so much themselves

Love is the challenge of our souls discovery

To say I love myself too much and others too much to want to take away from that

I don't want to hurt the "us" we have become in life to win for a moment

Our life is a series of moments

I understand that now

If someone came to me and took away from me that I came to with love, It would start to pierce our trust

I don't want to do that

Go to those you love and remember this is what love is

The way you are now with love is the way you will be in any new situation that comes along with love

Love isn't postponed or better because you do not know the recipient yet

That is a trick of the mind that the grass really is greener on the other side

The grass is already green and if you can't see that now, it is even harder to see it coming

Love is a state of mind

Love is a way of being

Love is what we turn it into

And Love is not a chore

Love breeds greater love

Since understanding love breeds greater understanding of many more things

Love is patient

Love does not compete

Love is open ended

And Love is not timed or has an expiration date

WE have taken liberty on many angles of life

Yet love is still most important to all of us

It is time to let love be what it is

A healer of us

A natural medication to our souls

The glue that bonds us together

And love doesn't just disappear, we disappear

No more fooling ourselves with love

It is too strong an emotion to say No to, yet we haven't learned how to say Yes to it all the way

We have left love in the middle of the road and sometimes it gets hit and it doesn't understand why

Yet it always comes back fighting for itself

Let Love teach us in many more ways who we are

It has a lot to teach us

And if we can just say Yes, that we will live in our moments, understand the love that is present

It will slow us down from searching so feverishly for something we are standing in front of

It will give us the will to look forward to future love as we share love in this day

And it will allow us to see future love when it arrives

It will give us more to share of ourselves rather than expect so much from it

And the rewards of the truth of love is yours

We can only attract to us, the completeness we feel

Understanding love in this way, can only attract love in this way to you

It is called recognition

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Unopened Gifts

Finally a day to say

To remind ourselves

To remember

To speak out loud

How do I forgive myself

That is one unopened gift

How do I have compassion for myself

Yet another unopened gift

We speak in life, I have been able to forgive....another

I can now go on

Yet what is forgiveness?

How do you forgive yourself?

To forgive is to say I have not learned

Compassion will speak that you have learned

You see, it is not about forgiveness at all

Forgiveness says that you will overlook and get over something that hurt you

Whether you did it to yourself or to someone else

It is to say, that you have not learned the lesson so you will forgive the action

And then what?

Do you just go on forgiving forever and not going further as to why you are doing it or allowing someone else to do it to you?

Compassion to yourself, to others, to say, Yes, this happened, whatever it is, and we will learn from it

Compassion to understand the motives, the reasons and to say, I understand why you did this

Is there another way to get what you need

Without hurting yourself or others

In teaching children

There are three rules of discipline to follow

Don't hurt yourself

Don't hurt others

Don't damage or destroy property

That is truth for all of us

If we don't hurt ourselves, we actually do not have a need to hurt others

Damaging or destroying property is usually a byproduct of being hurt

When we forgive ourselves or others we are acknowledging we are hurt or hurt another

Compassion is the step after, we can't just stop at forgiving

Compassion reminds us of the human part, the part where we gain self understanding and love

With words like

I know you didn't mean that

I know you are hurt already

I can see now your intentions are good for me, or maybe they are not

Is this a safe place for me to grow

Or is this teaching me this is not the place for me to stay and learn of life

Forgiveness is like a power play or relief button

Compassion finds a soulution, and landing place, a mutual caring for what results in what has happened

Compassion is the way to get past anyone having to forgive anything

It is the place where we learn why, not just what

Where we see motivation rather than action only

Where we grow within ourselves, then someone else

Self accounting, self love, growth

It all starts in the solutions, not in the answers

Anyone can say yes or no

Yet the parts that say why are the growths

The parts that say why are the teachers

The moments of discovering are when you can go on and live past those moments

There is a vast difference between forgiveness and compassion

Compassion teaches love and forgiveness gives power to someone to grant it

Compassion soothes and grows and forgiveness is saying, I have forgiven you so many times, now what?

The crutches of living in doing and forgiving

Rather than speaking and learning

Breaks the cycle of not paying attention to yourself with excuses

And brings back the questions you had as a child

Why, is one of the greatest questions any child asks and doesn't stop until they find out

It is their happiness so that they can go out and play

They already understand that full disclosure is their freedom

Quietly as we "look" so much smarter than them

Look again, there is still an unopened gift under your tree

It is called Self Love

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Think Love, Create Love

As Love starts to teach you
Who you are
When you think of sharing your home, your heart, your family
It tells you the best of you
As you present it all new
To a person that you feel love to
In a way that you always do

Love is not fantasy
Nor is it reality
Love is between both
That is the excitement of it all

When you think of love
Do you notice how you are in the best thoughts of who you are?

Some of us wait for new love to feel such open feelings towards ourselves
As though it is the only way we can feel it
Getting to the truth of things, you can feel this on your own
You see, love is love is love

There isn't one kind of love
Love is so open, it is in everything
That feeling of presenting your life to someone new
It is already present

As you build your life with love for yourself
That love, that excitement, that truth of you put out there
It gets to be present
And when it is present
It attracts those who are of love in that way too

Who understand that Love is love is love
That Love is a part of their every day
That anyone who comes to them leaves with love
That the more complete they already are
The more complete those that are attracted to them are

Everyone is attracted to a person who is already love
Already happy
Young children
Elders
Pets
And all other people

You start wondering what is different about you
And it is the new feeling of love, all the time
The belief that you are capable to have love
Simply to know it enough to feel it in heart
To live it in form
To stand within yourself
And understand it is a state of mind
And acceptance of heart
And lost ego to humble truths
That love is for all of us, even you

No one left out
Knowing Love doesn't replace challenge
It just makes it easier
That love gives answers that anger or feeling lacks of love can not see
Love is the freedom
Of your thinking and the compassion of your heart unto yourself
It is the opening of giving yourself a break
And the Love that comes with that knowing that you are OK

Even you, seems so far away at time
Love doesn't know the words, even you, even me, No to this or that
Love finds a way to say Yes
Yes to life, Yes to sharing, Yes to understanding
That love is simply life when it is understood and happy
Love is that smile you can't help
And the truth of why we are here
To learn to let go
Enough to open your heart
To follow the flow
Of love in life
That isn't meant to let go of even you!

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A Glimpse of Self Love

Are you scared to love me?
Does it show that I am scared to love you?
Maybe it is because I don't know how to love me either?

I have been trying to figure out how to love myself
for many years now
I still am not sure what that looks like to say, I love me, I love you too

When I don't love me the most
I get scared that you won't love me either
When I love me the most
I know you will be with me forever

I use to think of loving myself as selfish
Then I use to think it was all in my ego to do that
Then I realized when I was happy inside, selfish and ego weren't an issue
That I just wanted to spend time with you because I love you
Again when I was happy

And then I wake up and I am not so sure how I feel
And I take it out on you
Accusing you of things that were OK the day before
I found out when I am not happy, you will not be happy with me either
As I try to take it out on you so I don't have to face me

How do I love me?
So that I can love you
I was sitting on the floor one morning
On my way to an important meeting
And across from me was a mirror

I took a quick glance only to see myself sitting on the floor tying my shoe
When I looked up, I didn't see me, I saw a person, sitting on the floor, tying their shoe
It was a weird moment, however I realized I WAS a person
I stared at myself from a distance
I realized I looked like the people I see, not the person I know

I started talking to myself
I told myself,
You have a big meeting today,
I wish you well

When I said that I started to cry
It felt so good to care about me
Like the words of a dear friend
I continued talking

As I cried, I said, I am going to take care of you my friend
I am your friend
I see you wake up everyday, rush to get ready,
Yet I realized I never really see you at all

I am sorry I never looked
I judge you so harshly
And you are just making a way for yourself,
What ever that is

I promise to do right by you
From this moment forward
I will understand when you don't think you have done well that you have done your best
And I also promise not to hurt you more with the words in my head that take away from me
I will remind myself that you did your best and maybe it was not meant to be for you

I also promise that when things are going great to let you enjoy those moments for what they are
A part of life that keeps you motivated to do the rest of it
And I will remind myself that every purpose has a challenge and every challenge has a purpose
And that we are a team, My Heart, My Soul and My Mind

I will do right by you,
I will not let myself forget that you care and that I care
As my Heart and Soul spoke to my Mind
I realized still that I am one, yet at times there feels like there are two of me
One that loves and one that is harder on me than anyone I know

I sat on that floor and saw myself new that day
I got up and left feeling like I have a partner within myself
That I can be whole and awake to my actions
That I can do right by myself

And with that, that I understand what it means to do right by others too
They ARE me and I AM them
Just as I have the voice in my head that either cheers me on or stops me in my tracks
Joining myself with myself,
Gives me the path to join myself with you
I can love you more when I know what it feels like to love me more

Love can only propel once it knows that it is there

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The Fear of Love is the Love of Fear

When we say we fear something
What is it that we mean?
Do you use it as an excuse to not try or push yourself beyond it?
Do we let it gain greater strength than us and then blame it for being stronger?

How is it when fear wins?
When fear wins
It is telling us it beat us at our own mission
You see, we all come here to do something
Other than live, we come to grow our souls
And in that we are not on one path at a time, nor are any of us on a path that is a straight line

There are turns and corners and questions and doubts
There are confidence issues, self esteem questions, love of self, not known how to do
And to balance things, there is love, and joy and hope
Caring and trying and things looking like they did not work out as they are working out

Fear is what tells us things won't work out
Can't work out for us, but they can for other people
Fear is the culprit again

The worst fear of fear is letting fear win, that we let fear win
That is simply not Fair

We give so much power to what can happen to take away
That we don't get to what would happen if we didn't have such a fear
That we don't have to keep it around for habits sake
That we don't have to give it space so that we are left frustrated

Love is the opposite of fear
When you love life, you fear nothing
When you feel in love, you say anything
You dress freer
You are free to speak as you are when you are heightened

And then fear of losing comes in and there you are
you dry up
you fear speaking
you worry about the person you love not loving you any more
Fear, doubt and worry stagnate the soul
Love frees it

We know both sides of this coin so well
Is it a 50/50 chance for you?
Is your love strengthened within enough to stop fear when it tries to test you?

It is only a test, a push, a shove of your soul to Hone itself, to fear
When you recognize this, fear has one less leg to stand on
Which can only mean you stand stronger now
One thought at a time
One step away from taking away from yourself

In the end, as we learn that we are a person too
That we count to us
Enough for us to not let our days go by with doubt of who we are
And taking the chances that gives our soul exhilaration's and hope
Fear starts to look smaller and smaller

We always say "have no fear", and we all love the saying
Fear is not a fight it is a foe
We take on foes everyday
And Fear is not bigger than any other foe
Fear is actually weakest when we are our best

Next time you hear your mind speak to you and says "you can't do this, you don't deserve that, this is not for you, that is too great a thing to happen to you"
Talk back from your heart and say, "WHY NOT ME!"
Fight it head on
Tell it, it is not your friend
Speak loudly to it's mayham
And softly with your love

Love is the greatest strength of all
And pure in it's energy of your movements and thoughts
Turn it around and it will turn around
Stop it and it will stop talking
Tell it to be quiet and the cowardliness in it will obey

Fear has only the strength that we give it
And as we all know fear has never amounted to anything
And it is just by habit in many cases that it is even within you

We have so much love, untapped
Tap in and smile at the chance
Tap in and live in the difference
Tap in and let love show you what it can do without fear
Love really can do this, and it is one of the first things in understanding your own self love
Love gives and does not need to receive
It just finds a way to keep on growing and growing and growing
Live in the truth that fear is the illusion that it is
Love is the true leader
Let it lead

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Life's Nectar

Watch your steps
Walk in peace
Listen to the heights of your mind
And react with time in your thoughts

In your moments of relaxation
take on the walking of your body
The walking of your body is the peace of your mind
Without the peace of your mind, you could not come about walking

It is an energy in itself
to breed self maintenance
and compassion's to take you to the roads of understanding love

Self love's appearance has been manipulated by the human mind
for it is giving the human mind the ego's version of self love
which is to out do anything from yourself, to all souls that you encounter

So simple is the truth
And so complicated is the mind when it wants to realign truths to convince itself of it's truth
The truth of truth settles and all the rest of it leaves us with questions

Truth in self love is to understand the value of love itself
For once a soul can feel love of itself it can offer it to others

You can not offer a meal of meat and potatoes
if you do not have meat or potato's in your possession

Fear of love does not have a place in eternity
Fear is the driver of a car with no engine
You simply can not drive the car

There is nothing to lose in love unabated
Freedom to speak from your heart so you could feel and be felt
Love enough to say, yes, that happened and I have learned
Compassion enough to tell yourself, I will do right by you
It calms the heart to know you are present
That you are there for you
Then you can share you, have meat and potatoes for dinner, and recognize love as it finds it's way to you