2 Simple Truths About Love Which Most of Us Overlook
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Loading... - Minato Fuji
- 05 Aug 2022
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Today I’d like to focus on two more overlooked truths.
1. Love is always active and in the present.
“Most people think of love as a feeling. But love is not so much a feeling as a way of being present.”
What do you mean? Love is not passive — you don’t say “my child is loved by me”. You say “I love my child”. It isn’t in the past or the future. It is not ‘I will love’ or ‘I have loved’. It is active and ongoing.
If you truly love yourself or someone or something, the love doesn’t stop, whether you separate or part, or whether you stay together. It is active and it is present.
Why is that? If you truly love someone, then you love them for who they truly are. Who they truly are doesn’t change, so neither should your love.
You might not like their behaviour or how they treat you or others. But they are not their behaviour, their bank balance, their skin colour, their job or their qualification.
What if they are mean or unloving to you?
You do not need to stay in a relationship with them. All love starts from within, from loving yourself.
You love yourself enough to move towards where you can thrive, grow and live your authentic truth. If this means separating from them, so be it.
Love is an extension of yourself to the outside. Therefore, when you love yourself, you also see others as more than just their physical being or behaviour. Even when they have hidden it away through fear and longing, which is fear in another garment. Read More...
