Love is not enough! There has to be trust and respect and kindness and admiration and appreciation and gratitude and sweetness of speech and emotional intimacy as well as physical intimacy. Not just sometimes. Always.
Bring Your Best Self Like you did in the beginning, bring your best self, always. He or she truly does not owe you anything just because you love them. In the beginning, you gave and gave – love, admiration, praise, attention, respect. And you loved everything about them, likely even
Who Loves Ya, Baby? It’s the 5-year-old in us who falls in love. And it’s the 5-year-old in the other person that we fall in love with. That sweet, precious, innocent, beautiful, little one who came from the spirit world just 5 years ago, and who wants nothing more than
#4. Always Do Your Best The Fourth Agreement from don Miguel Ruiz. We accept that in order for us to be loved we have to love ourselves. In order to genuinely love ourselves, we have to feel good about ourselves, and be proud of ourselves. To accomplish that we must
#3. Don’t Make Assumptions The Third Agreement from don Miguel Ruiz. Most of the confrontations in our lives happen because one person assumed the wrong thing. When we look back at misunderstandings that we have had in the past, we realize that often the other person didn’t mean it that
The Second Agreement from don Miguel Ruiz. When my partner or friend is having a bad day, chances are it’s not about me. We all live very intricate lives that involve a lot of challenges outside our relationship . When I decide that it’s about me and get hurt, then
Just a moment! All you have to handle is just this moment. You don’t have to change your whole life right now. Just this moment. And make this moment fun. How? Gratitude, gratitude, gratitude… for anything, anyone, right now. That makes this moment much lighter, much easier, much more fun.
When we die and go to the Light, we have a panoramic life review, where we experience every moment of the life that we just lived, but from the perspective of the other person, how we effected them. This is not to be judged or rewarded, but simply so that
All day, to everybody… practice kindness, and you will realize you’re already in heaven now. Philosopher Jack Kerouac wrote these words. You can see it in your life. Every time you show kindness to someone, their heart lights up, they smile, and they show appreciation, which truly is the same
The rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things without you, says philosopher Leo Buscaglia. Love yourself, accept yourself, forgive yourself, be good to yourself. We need you.