stop & stare

"‎Love is in detachment from the strings that end up tying tighter than love was ever meant to be. Love without fear of what may come tomorrow—for that is what love is. It belongs to no one but yourself and cannot be taken or given as a token of or a gift. Your worries and fears have nothing to do with love—they are either extensions of the world around you or your own shortcomings. Compare them not to love or you will lose your choice in the matter of love… and if love be not free and exhilarating then it is not love but demand and desire for that which you are not. Love allows. It is a perspective of self—self in reflection and glory, mirrored in a feeling that is beautiful to feel. Anything else is not love, but obligation., and that is something else to be worked with. It is all in the perspective."

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