Love has no agenda …

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The relationship you want can only be had through hard work on yourself … and that’s the work we do our best to avoid. It’s much easier to shell out money. Americans spend 35 billion dollars a year on unproven diet products because they find it too difficult to eat less.

And eating less is easy compared to getting naked. We’re scared to death to strip away the family, the house, the degree, the job, the kids. We’ve defined ourselves by appearance, grades, athletic ability, good behavior or rebellion as far back as we can remember. You’re not alone if you’re thinking, “Who would I be without all that?” Most of us don’t know.

Strip away what can be quantified, seen or touched, and you have your authentic self. You have that for which you want to be known and loved.

Yes, you want somebody to love every little toe and sweet spot, but you also want them to love what you’re afraid to show and talk about. You want them to know that you were the last one picked for softball, that you had a speech impediment until you were 9 and that kids used to call you chubby knees.… More

In any given scenario, we are presented with only two choices: Love and Fear. Seems like that would make it easy enough to choose Love. And it would, if Love and Fear really showed up as an angel on one shoulder and a devil on the other.

Love is full of paradox, though. It is both ancient and childlike, invincible and tender, responsible and free.

And we can mask Fear before we’re even consciously aware that it is Fear. With our helping hand, Fear might appear in a mask as innocent as doubt or indifference. We may convince ourselves that Fear is not Fear at all, and “we’re just waiting for the right opportunity” or “choosing realistically.” Other times, we mask Fear with something as ugly as anger; but justify it and call it Love. And, when our survival seems blatantly threatened, we may see Fear for what it is and claim it as the only choice.

How do you react in the face of fear? Do you instinctively fight, run, or freeze? If you act unconsciously, you do one of the three. And 98 percent of all brain activity is completely unconscious.

So, are we unwittingly choosing a life of fear … a life of pain, and lack, and stress, a life destined to fall short of what we want?… More

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To be truly present is to be present with love and radiate love from the inside out. … More