12 Dec 2012
Choose Love
Last week my dear friend Alice reminded me about Marianne Williamson’s Return to Love. Alice had given me the book as a birthday present 13 years ago and I had read it, but on her suggestion, I decided to revisit it while on vacation visiting my parents in Florida.
The basic premise of the book is this: Only love is real. Fear is an illusion.
This idea resonates with me because I know it to be true…I have seen it, felt it, experienced it, lived it.
I have been on a quest for love my entire life. I have looked for love outside myself and found that true love comes from inside. Only when you love yourself, can you see love everywhere around you.
Once you are IN LOVE (not with another, but with yourself), fear no longer has a hold on you. CHOOSE LOVE.
I leave you with one of my own poems:
What I do with Fear…
When you feel for someone so much
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that it feels like you are losing control
and the fear creeps in
poisoning the pure emotion
and wants to consume
and wants to overcome
I choose love
Fear is love tainted
Love is fearless.
© Betty Larrea 2002
nicole
December 13, 2012 @ 12:26 am
True. Why is it so hard sometimes to love ourselves and remember to love ourselves. Sometimes I need to take myself out on a date and remember. 🙂
Be Yoga Be Love
December 13, 2012 @ 12:45 am
How brilliant, I am taking myself out on a date tonight!! Love it!
Taisha
December 15, 2012 @ 9:46 pm
I love that idea too!! That reminds me of the the time I went to London for a business trip 2 years ago in December. I took myself out to eat at a fancy restaurant (on the company’s dime 😉 and then traveled on the Underground and on a Ferry on the Thames, all by myself! I realized that trip how much I enjoy my own company and what a great traveler I am! It was so healing and in retrospect I see now its because thats what love does… it heal all wounds and removes all fears.
Be Yoga Be Love
December 17, 2012 @ 4:12 am
What a nice observation! Love is the answer…
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