How Love Begins in You
It is often said
that in order to love another person,
one must first love oneself.
One reason given
is that we could never give
what it is
we do not even have.
The second reason I’ve heard,
and which made much sense to me,
is that the happiness of those we love
depends so much on our own happiness.
If our loved ones see that we are suffering,
that we are not happy,
how can we ever expect them to be happy as well?
The third reason,
I’ve just realized now.
I’ve realized that there can be no ‘beloved’
if there is none who loves that beloved first.
It is ‘you’ who loves,
and if there is no ‘you’
how then can you love
whomsoever you profess you love?
Love begins in you,
it is not so much that you cannot give
what you do not have,
but if there be no giver,
no love could ever be given at all.
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4 replies on “Why Love Begins In You”
Without love, babies cannot survive too.
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I really enjoyed your heavenly quote. Thank you!
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Lovely post 🙂
Thank you for sharing.
Graet perspective , you need to love yourself first in order to be loved