The Valentine’s Day is today. Time to think about those we love. Even more importantly, time to consider what it means to truly love another.
Connecting to Love: Day 14 ~ Twin Souls
Love is a strong affection, or fond feeling, towards a person or thing.
Connecting to Love: Day 14 ~ Twin Souls
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We can understand love is the uplifting experience of joy, ecstasy, fulfillment, contentment, delight, and abandon. More than anything else, the highest expression of true love is trust. Indeed, trust is love’s sweetest gift. That is because trust gives rise to an experience of freedom and space. In fact, trust is the powerful experience of spiritual freedom within the context of human relationship. Trust is both reason of love and result of love. When we permit ourselves to trust deeply, we are letting another human being into our heart and into our soul. We have accepted the good intentions of another so deeply that we allow them to step so close to us that we cannot protect ourselves any longer. Each and everyone wants such partner whom he can love and trust.
To love someone is to greatly admire or respect them for their values. (the things a person chooses to value can be himself, his convictions, virtues, appearance, abilities, friends, personal possessions, or all of the above).
Any relationship works only when there is a good quality of understanding. When you start a relationship, you should accept the flaws and, at the same time, try and understand your partner with his/her imperfections.To make a relationship strong and lasting both love and trust is necessary. We
should make such relationship where the freedom and happiness will exists.
While in love, you forget yourself and start living for other person. You get concerned about what s/he is thinking, how s/he is responding to you, and whether or not s/he likes you. It is very important not to forget yourself.
Thomas Merton wrote in "No Man Is an Island": “The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, than we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them”
Believe that you are complete - there is no person, thing or moment that can complete you. The moment you shift yourself to this frequency, the more likely you are to attract a person and a life that is as complete as you.
The status of “in a relationship” should not reflect a dependency on someone else, but rather, the power of togetherness.
According Mignon McLaughlin "You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, your simple presence can make others happy."
When you feel complete within yourself, you attract someone just like yourself. But the journey starts with you - it is imperative that you love yourself, because without love for yourself, you will not be able to identify anything as valuable and as a result, you will not be able to love or be loved.
Remember, no one is ever going to love you more than you love yourself. Healthy relationships occur between two people who are comfortable with themselves, in addition to one another. Love only develops after making your own happiness a top priority.
If you're given the chance to love and be loved, take it. No matter how difficult it is, no matter what you have to do to make it happen, let go of your fears and let love enter...
A final note - for many single people, Valentine’s Day, and the accompanying media focus on romantic relationships, can magnify feelings of loneliness and lack. Those who are in a relationship may feel stress about planning a special evening out or finding the ideal gift. If you are experiencing emotional pain stemming from your thoughts about your relationships, it can be helpful to recall the timeless wisdom taught by of many of the world’s great spiritual traditions - Your essential nature is pure love and pure happiness.
DAILY QUOTE:
To love someone is to greatly admire or respect them for their values. (the things a person chooses to value can be himself, his convictions, virtues, appearance, abilities, friends, personal possessions, or all of the above).
Any relationship works only when there is a good quality of understanding. When you start a relationship, you should accept the flaws and, at the same time, try and understand your partner with his/her imperfections.To make a relationship strong and lasting both love and trust is necessary. We
should make such relationship where the freedom and happiness will exists.
While in love, you forget yourself and start living for other person. You get concerned about what s/he is thinking, how s/he is responding to you, and whether or not s/he likes you. It is very important not to forget yourself.
Thomas Merton wrote in "No Man Is an Island": “The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, than we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them”
Believe that you are complete - there is no person, thing or moment that can complete you. The moment you shift yourself to this frequency, the more likely you are to attract a person and a life that is as complete as you.
The status of “in a relationship” should not reflect a dependency on someone else, but rather, the power of togetherness.
According Mignon McLaughlin "You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, your simple presence can make others happy."
When you feel complete within yourself, you attract someone just like yourself. But the journey starts with you - it is imperative that you love yourself, because without love for yourself, you will not be able to identify anything as valuable and as a result, you will not be able to love or be loved.
Remember, no one is ever going to love you more than you love yourself. Healthy relationships occur between two people who are comfortable with themselves, in addition to one another. Love only develops after making your own happiness a top priority.
If you're given the chance to love and be loved, take it. No matter how difficult it is, no matter what you have to do to make it happen, let go of your fears and let love enter...
A final note - for many single people, Valentine’s Day, and the accompanying media focus on romantic relationships, can magnify feelings of loneliness and lack. Those who are in a relationship may feel stress about planning a special evening out or finding the ideal gift. If you are experiencing emotional pain stemming from your thoughts about your relationships, it can be helpful to recall the timeless wisdom taught by of many of the world’s great spiritual traditions - Your essential nature is pure love and pure happiness.
My wish is a loving day for all and
that you make this day the most fulfilling it can be...
DAILY QUOTE:
"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies".
~ Aristotle
ACTION:
Give thanks for the relationships that didn’t work out, embrace the lessons you learned, be thankful for the personal growth, and know in your heart that you are always being prepared for the most supportive, loving relationships to enter your life.
Bring to mind someone you love. Feel the reality of your love - know that you are loving. Feel a perfect love flowing through an imperfect person. Feel your thoughts calming, your mood improving, and your heart opening to others. Absorb the benefits of recognizing and trusting in the lovingness of your heart.
Write in a daily journal a list of the activities that you and your partner enjoy doing together and choose one to do this day.
Make a list of what do you truly love and appreciate about the person you love, or if you are single, the person of your dreams.
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