loving kindness

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When It Is True and Real

Love…
…brings understanding and empathy when it is true and real. I’m grateful for when I am feeling down and you say encouraging words; when you can tell I need to be alone and give me space; and when I need it most you say or write something that makes me feel loved near the very moment I need it.

American actress Kirstie Alley
No matter how hard you try,
you can’t close your heart forever.
And the minute you open it up,
you never know what’s going
to come in. But when it does,
you just have to go for it!
Because if you don’t,
there’s not point in being here.

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Beauty in Love’s Presence

Love…
…makes beautiful the ordinary and polishes the plain to shiny. An ordinary heart finds its beauty in loves presence; an everyday spirit finds its shine standing in love’s light.

American poet and Unitarian Minister, Kenneth L. Patton
She is
a maiden
made of
many flowers,
a million
blossoms
shaped to
form
one
bloom…

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Most Fundamental Nature

Love…
…reveals and illustrates me truly as I truly am. There is no exhibition greater that can be shown of me than who and what I allow into my heart. To love is to be stripped bare to one’s most fundamental nature for anyone to see.

Spanish philosopher and essayist Ortega Y. Gasset
In their choice
of lovers,
both male
and female
reveal their
true nature.
The type of
human being
we prefer
reveals the
contours of
our heart.

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The Best Of Me

Love…
…shows clearly in how comfortable I am with you. Never do I wish to be anything but the “me” I truly am. The open acceptance I feel from you strengthens my confidence and belief in myself. It brings out the best of me.

Nineteenth Century American novelist Louisa May Alcott
Love is a flower
that grows in any soil,
works its sweet miracles
undaunted by autumn frost
or winter snow,
blooming fair
and fragrant all the year,
and blessing those who give
and those who receive.

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Radiant Warmth to the Heart

Love…
…is the strongest energy on Earth. Nothing can move mountains or soothe a savage as well; nor inspire as it can; nor make one feel as safe and secure. Love is radiant warmth to the heart as the sun is to the body.

Taken from a thought by American poet Susan Polis Schutz
This life is yours.
Take the power to choose
what you want to do
and do it well.
Take the power
to love
what you want in life
and love it
honestly.
No one else can
do it for you.

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A Single Shadow

Love…
…is more than one plus one equals two. When love is true and real, two together are amplified far beyond what they would otherwise be separated.

Canadian poet, novelist and journalist Doug Fetherling
Your absence
has not taught
me to be alone,
it merely
has shown
that when
together
we cast a
single shadow
on the wall.

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Jagged and Irregularly Drawn

Love…
…is not a straight line between two people. It is a connection jagged and irregularly drawn. Only with open communication and truth do the crooked lines of adoration not trip and twist the two apart.

From “Have I Ever Told You” by Gianella Ramirez
Have I ever
told you
when
the soft wind
caresses my face
I think it is you,
blowing me
sweet kisses
from where
you stand?

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Language that Our Hearts Express

Love…
…without feeling anxious or afraid of its outcome is new for me. Always before I expected loving to take me somewhere else and transform my life. Imagine my surprise at staying in the same place with the same life and being happily in love with you.

From “Love” by modern-day poet Gianella Ramirez
Love
is the laughter
that you and I share…
Love
is the small things
that show how we care…
Love
is the language
that our hearts express…
Love
is the feeling
of true happiness…

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A Spark in the Heart

Love…
… honest and true makes one far more than he or she is without it. It expands dreams, heightens desire, strengthens endurance and enriches possibility. Love is a spark in the heart that empowers the soul.

British philosopher and Nobel prize winner Bertrand Russell
If love
is to bring
all the good
of which
it is capable,
it must be
free,
generous,
unrestrained
and wholehearted.

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Lucky to Have You

I love…
…that you are a take-charge type of person who does not shrink away from responsibility, even when bearing it is difficult. Your family is lucky to have you. So am I!

An old proverb said to have Greek origins
A
heart
that
loves
is
always
young.