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RSSGiving Away Your Love
Posted November 26th, 2008 by Sean Griffin
You know, my favorite gift is the gift of love. How about you?
Love warms me. It makes me tingle all over, inspires me, causes me to blush, gives me confidence, comforts me, and inevitably brings my total attention to that exact moment of wonder.
“Love has no desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.” Kahlil Gibran
Love is such a powerful force in our lives. Love is what we desire the most and in many cases is what we receive the least of.
It is not hard to understand why, as humans, giving and receiving love is not one of our major focuses. This is the deal, love does not cost us any monetary resources and yet has the power to give and receive more than all of Fort Knox worth of returns.
“Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river.”
Malagasy Proverb
What holds us back from giving and receiving love on a regular basis?
One of my favorite ways to express my love for those people in my life is through hugging. I know your thinking right now, oh great a hug, isn’t that a bit girly for a man?
Whenever I feel a strong unconditional kind of love for someone I just can’t help myself, I have to hug them. This has gotten me into way more uncomfortable situations than one can count. The thing is that it is a very natural way for me to express love for people in my life.
Over time the people that I have shared this unconditional love with start to feel the love and will actually wonder why I am not hugging them whenever I see them and don’t hug them. Got to love that.
The pace of our lives is such that we don’t allow ourselves the time to slow it down and feel the love, much less share it.
“A bell is no bell ’til you ring it, A song is no song ’til you sing it, And love in your heart wasn’t put there to stay. Love isn’t love ’til you give it away.”
Oscar Hammerstein, The Sound of Music
Nothing could be more important in your live than to share your love and give it away. You can do it!
Have any of you read about people giving away “free hugs” to anyone walking down the street. Their idea is that everyone could use a little love and hey, it doesn’t cost anything. What a great example of people wanting to give people the power of love and to complete strangers. You don’t have to be so extreme share your love.
This Thanksgiving muster the energy and intention of giving away your love to those you care about. Nothing could be more important or rewarding.
“Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.” Jean Anouilh
Let me know what you think.
Until next week, remember the only boxes that exist are the ones you create yourself.
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