Loving
Without expecting to be loved back
January 5th 2014
Do you want to be happy? Well, don’t expect anyone to think of you, or understand you or love you. Everyone has their own preoccupations, their own cares, and if someone is with you one moment, they may be engaged elsewhere the next. Yes, attention, friendship and love are very uncertain things, especially love. It may come, of course; it may come and never leave, but do not expect it. If you want to be happy, do not expect to be. And not only that – you yourself must begin by giving love. And that is easy, for love exists first within yourself. Wherever you go, whoever you meet, you always have love in your heart, and there is no shortage of possibilities for expressing it. It is not a question of loving one particular person but of experiencing love as a spring that asks only to burst forth, as a radiant energy that overflows and spreads to infinity. When you discover love is within you, you will no longer wait for others to love you.