Things No One Taught Us About Love

When you stop seeing people for what they offer you and begin to seek who they really are, radical acceptance and genuine curiosity takes hold, creating an environment of pure love

Meet yourself where you’re at. Your genuine emotions don’t require a label. Don’t judge them as good or bad. Just be a witness and stay curious about where they came from.

To see goodness in others is to possess goodness yourself. And once you recognize your inner light, the harder it becomes for someone to dim your spark by taking away your pride and dignity.

The Universe will replace people who do not reciprocate your love.

That is why love is never lost, it is only found

The key is not moving on too fast. If you don’t fully deal with the nuances of sadness that come from ending a relationship, it will become the emotional baggage that plagues all following connections

Self-love heals. Time helps, but it’s facing those raw emotions that will make you more able to cope with any future relationship.

Don’t beg.

Never chase.

Know your worth.

Choose yourself.

Deep listening is more valuable than giving advice

Finally, remember that there is tremendous joy in peacefully, wholeheartedly and intentionally doing nothing at all. We think joy only comes from outings, from activities, from making new friends and going to new places – and so to sit and do nothing seems utterly boring. In fact, it is a way to find a tremendously rewarding dimension of being human. It can help reconnect us to depths of ourselves we’ve completely forgotten and ignored.

Emotional maturity looks like having a disagreement without shaming, blaming, name-calling or projecting your trauma onto someone else.