A LOVE AS FIERCE AS THE SUMMER SUN
Don't search for love, or try to make others love you. Simply be what you seek, give yourself what you long to be given. Be more loving, open your heart wider, without expectation, without needing anything in return. You'll get hurt? You'll waste your love? You'll look like a fool? Keep opening anyway. And opening. Your heart needs to break sometimes, so it can give more love, and in giving, receive. In the cracks, compassion will take root.
You can still say no. You can still draw, redraw and erase boundaries as you go. You can still leave, or stay, or never come back, or return. But you are loving yourself first. And through that love, loving a world. No longer waiting for others to save you, or complete you, or remove your pain, yet no longer denying yourself the love that in the end you can only give yourself.
No longer protecting a broken heart by trying to close it. Andno longer being a masochist either, dishonouring your own boundaries to find a love you could never find outside of your very own heart. Others will disappoint you until you realise this.
Love sees others as they are.The sun has given her light freely for billions of years, delighting in the life she brings to all beings; a joyful warrior of love, she is in relationship, first and foremost, with her own shining.
- Jeff Foster
