If we are not living with love, we are not living a full life. Even though we have experienced love – given and received, and have known its true worth and value in our feeling of completeness, we often find ourselves struggling to always find it and live it every day. Sometimes we struggle because we understand love in one way, but we can truly enjoy life when we understand the different colours of love.
Sometimes we need to learn to love someone not the way we want to express it, but the way they need to feel it from us. When we first think about the other person before ourselves, we shift the flow from wanting to giving. Learning to feel what the other is feeling is love.
We are always fighting for time in our busy schedules, and yet what most people value from us, even though we may not have realized it, is our attention. Spending quality time is spending time with love.
We carry our successes, challenges, responsibilities, and stories. Even as we get excited about sharing the big things we may have done, or the big issues we are facing, deeply listening to someone without making it about ourselves is quietly expressing our love.
Exciting unplanned opportunities and snatching time to spend together are not just fun but also convey that the other person is always in our thoughts. Being spontaneous is loving.
As much as togetherness is love, sometimes we need to be as loving in giving someone their space when they need it. If our love is like a small flame, space can sometimes become the coldness in between. However, if our love is all-powerful like the sun, they will feel our warmth even from a distance. Giving space and sometimes keeping a distance without making an issue of it is giving love.
When we find ourselves struggling with negativity, anger, and fear and are finding it difficult to tap into the purity and power from within, we need to remind ourselves that the power of love always exists within – life is only asking us to discover a new colour. Sometimes the darkest cloud creates the brightest rainbow.
(Picture – Flowers in the farmer’s market in Dusseldorf, Germany)
Totally agree
Your beautiful writings will make netter sense and become more interesting if they move beyond philosophical theory and give practical experience.