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Letting love love me

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Written by g463 16. Jun 2008 08:57 PM

It's taken me a while to learn that life is more than passion's curse. I am here to live it somehow, but so often I choose not to - almost choose to forget...but then you never really can forget. The stuff that puts the life into life never really goes away. I just resist it.

So I realised that somehow I need to let love love me! Have to give myself permission to allow others in, to allow happiness in, to let go of the things that keep me all bound up (they're killing me!). Need to give myself permission to live.

I'm not there yet, but I can see clearly that it comes down to choices. The universe, in her wisdom, decided that I was here for more than my carbon emissions and future archaelogical deposits...because the universe gave me certain creative gifts. I can choose to bury them...and therefore die slowly, or maybe if I start to choose to engage with them, to embrace them, to use them for the benefit of myself and others...maybe then I'll begin to live again.

And maybe...maybe in doing that, I'll find fulfillment, relationships, and the self that I lost a very long time ago.

Apologies if this all seems cryptic. It makes sense to me!

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g463

Life is about choices... even the negative is a choice... keeping in touch with your creative side is a good idea... it helps you make good choices... you do not need to suffer for your art...

I hope you can keep making the good choices..

take care

rgds
cate

Written by cateblack, 16. Jun 2008 10:05 PM

... It makes sense to me too, g463

How nice to come upon you this evening as I wander my path musing and emoting, much as you do... wondering is this all I was born to feel and be, all I was born to do.

How restorative it has been to pause for awhile in your diary and let the musicality and sing song of your posts speak in dulcet tones to my souls memory of universal truths,which now invite me to get up and dance.

A hundred birds lifted
In song and wing
Over mist covered waters
Leaving pools of rings

A hundred birds landed
With precision and grace
Home to roost
In the lines of her face
(Nickhy 2008)

Choices are my starting and ending place.Love my desired companion. Fullfilment my goal.

I hope we can dance together, sometime

Written by Alchemy, 16. Jun 2008 10:40 PM

It does make sense...and like many people who experience depression, you are a deeply intelligent human being.

I believe our natural state is 'love' - being in a state of love within - living 'in love'. I believe the opposite of love is fear...and everything negative in ourselves and in the rest of the world is driven by fear....including 'resisting life'.

Sending you love, warmth, trust and strength.

Kimberly
xoxo

Written by newlife, 17. Jun 2008 01:36 AM