Sublime

in your pocket you already hold the key: the willingness to take absolute responsibility for your life; the willingness to risk; the willingness to release yourself from judgment and reclaim your innocence, accepting and loving yourself for who you really are—human, imperfect, and whole.

She extends her leg so her ankle is crossed over mine beneath the table, and I try not to smile at an email about interest rates. “Charlie,” she says, after all the grapes are gone and half the strawberries. She’s saving the cantaloupe for last, I notice. Mentally I’m doing a victory lap. “Hmm?” “Could you open that for me?” She nods her head towar

her my heart was open and let’s get on with

The heart is an energy center, and it can open or close.

Open now, offering your heart’s gift, and also do your best to live rightly through the present patterns of your past history.

In order to attract an extraordinary love, and sustain relationships that are characterized by authenticity, kindness, and respect, then we must outgrow our tendencies to unconsciously duplicate the relational traumas of our past, and replay over and over again our deepest disappointments in love.

if you can point to a reason why your heart is open, be careful—it will change. If you can point to a reason why your heart is closed, don’t worry—it will change.