love is an allowing
can you love without losing yourself?
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Trust has become rare for me in the last period of my life. It takes a lot for me to trust someone. It’s something I’ve been working on for the last chunk of my life. I am getting better. Still- it’s very hard to accept that- at least to me- to love someone is to give them the chance to hurt you. and honestly it seems inevitable that they will-... See more
_reidolsoninstagram.comPracticing love often means feeling through fear: intentionally opening yourself when you would rather close down, giving yourself when you would rather hide. Love means recognizing yourself as the open fullness of this moment regardless of its contents—trenchant thoughts, enchanting pleasures, heavy emotions, or gnawing pains—and surrendering all
... See moreDavid Deida • The Enlightened Sex Manual: Sexual Skills for the Superior Lover
The two aspects of holding—contact and space, attunement and letting be—correspond to the two core qualities of love, warmth and openness, that are native to our being. Warmth is our natural impulse to reach outside ourselves, touch, and make contact, to welcome, embrace, and take delight in. Openness is our capacity to let be, to allow, to let in
... See moreWelwood, John • Perfect Love
We cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable and powerful selves to be deeply seen and known, and when we honor the spiritual connection that grows from that offering with trust, respect, kindness, and affection. Love is not something we give or get; it is something that we nurture and grow, a connection that can only be cultivated between
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