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The Real Thing

Love Should Feel Good

Often in our lives, we fall prey to the idea of a thing

rather than actually experiencing the thing itself. We

see this at play in our love lives and in the love lives

of our friends, our family, and even fictional characters.

The conceptualizing, depiction, and pursuit of true love

are multimillion-dollar industries in the modern world.

However, very little of what is offered actually leads us

to an authentic experience of love. Moreover, as we grasp

for what we think we want and fail to find it, we may suffer

and bring suffering to others. When this is the case, when

we suffer more than we feel healed, we can be fairly certain

that what we have found is not love but something else.

When we feel anxious, excited, nervous, and thrilled,

we are probably experiencing romance, not love.

Romance can be a lot of fun as long as we do not try

to make too much of it. If we try to make more of it

than it is, the romance then becomes painful.

Romance may lead to love, but it may also fade

without blossoming into anything more than a flirtation.

If we cling to it and try to make it more, we might find

ourselves pining for a fantasy, or worse, stuck in a

relationship that was never meant to last.

Real love is identifiable by the way it makes us feel.

Love should feel good. There is a peaceful quality

to an authentic experience of love that penetrates

to our core, touching a part of ourselves that has

always been there. True love activates this inner being,

filling us with warmth and light. An authentic experience

of love does not ask us to look a certain way, drive a

certain car, or have a certain job. It takes us as we are,

no changes required. When people truly love us,

their love for us awakens our love for ourselves.

They remind us that what we seek outside of ourselves

is a mirror image of the lover within. In this way, true love

never makes us feel needy or lacking or anxious. Instead,

true love empowers us with its implicit message that we are,

always have been, and always will be, made of love.

DailyOm

Love & Light,
♥Angel Love♥