“Hope is tough. It’s tougher to be uncertain than certain. It’s tougher to take chances than to be safe. And so hope is often seen as weakness, because it’s vulnerable, but it takes strength to enter into that vulnerability of being open to the possibilities.”

You will have to learn that we do not spontaneously find the courage to pursue what we love one day. We sense an urge, a hunch, a small desire to take one step in the direction of our dreams. Then we keep going, even in the face of doubt and speculation. Then we pursue, with wild, open hearts, with total abandon, with complete commitment.

We can learn to open our hearts and find entrance into an everlasting, unconditional love.

Maybe it’s because you’re one of those people that believes that sometimes, the most reckless thing you can do with your heart, is not being reckless with it.

To break free and make the shift from the adaptive child to the adult requires the desire to take the risk not to control the outcome of how your partner may react to your truth.