Love

Love wasn't put in our hearts to stay, love isn't love until you give it away.

We all have an infinite capacity for loving. Sometimes, we get confused about loving, and we start thinking that we only have so much to go around. We start thinking in zero-sum terms. We believe that we only have so much love and if we give some away, we have that much less. We start parceling out our love like we pay the bills at the end of the month. We meet all of our 'love obligations', and we try to keep a little bit in savings, just in case of an emergency.

Controlled love is not loving. Obligatory love is not loving.

Love is something that flows out of our deep sense of loving ourselves. It is not possible to love another if we don't know and love ourselves.

When we love ourselves, there is no limit to the amount of love we can share. But loving can never be manufactured because we should, need to, or want to get something in return. Love is an energy that is shared because we have it.

Loving the people I know allows me to know the people I love.