Do you believe in love ? I do.
What's your favorite place to go to when you need to learn more about love… Books? People you trust and care about ? Online?
Wherever your definition of love comes from, love should always remain something that we are bound to keep learning.
This morning, i wiped the dust off an old book i had received as a gift some years ago. I don't remember the exact circumstances on how the book was given to me. What I remember mostly is how reading the book and reflecting on it now makes me feel…
The book is written as a letter to all women, just to let them know that they are precious; and they are worthy to be loved. All i remember about the book reading is the time it took me to read it all the way through. How it seemed like …forever! Although it is only about 72 pages long…
The best definition i can give anyone about love in my personal life right now, is that love is a lesson. And that to me means, i give myself permission to learn everything there is to know about love, as much as I give myself permission to let go and to unlearn as many things as possible that i thought love was and it isn't. Because there are so many misconceptions, practices, rituals, around love that just do not serve a sound, safe, authentic definition of the type of love that i'm coming to know. Does it mean i could spend the rest of my life unlearning what is generally assiociated to love that isn't, mistaken for love and really isn't love? Absolutely. And i m ready for it. I'm truly looking forward to it. Are you (in your own life circumstances)?
There's no shame to admitting to failing the lesson called love the first time you took the class. Maybe you had a bad teacher? Maybe the class was too crowded (bad influence) and you had a hard time catching up on what the teacher was saying/doing ? Maybe you thought you knew what love was before coming to class (stubborn), and didn't like it, and so you didn't really pay attention to the new teacher until it was too late? It could all happen, probably to the best of us. Everyday, love lessons are learned. And i think that, what's more dangerous than failling a class the first time you take it, is refusing to learn anything else ever after, for the rest of your life.
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Let me just say this to you ( especially ladies)…Love is like a lesson. It's where everything begins…
Every lesson takes practice. It takes practice to know something, it takes practice to use it. It takes practice to teach it. You have to know what love is before you start looking for it. How else will you come to recognize it? The best way to find something is to know it, at least do some research, on what you are looking for. Or you may be missing all that it does for you, failing to recognize it and letting it pass you by because you didn't expect it. By that, I also mean we must be ready to confront, and deny what love is not.
Love has to be a thirst in you, a quest in your journey so that you are able to pick up the pieces of your whole entire being and connect them together in a harmonious way.
I learned from reading this book that there is no shame in looking for love. Everyday. What is unfortunate is skipping through some pages, or chapters of the book of your life, ignoring that natural genuine thirst and longing for something that you have never experienced, love, in the hope that it finds you.
Let love find you; let it locate you and find you ready, busy building yourself up inside out…. that is the only way that love will recognize you; celebrate you and lead your way ...
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