It's easy to put limitations on being and expressing love and kindness but I feel withholding it is the most harmful thing to do This weekend, cooking a meal from the garden for family
"To begin by always thinking of love as an action rather than a feeling is one way in which anyone using the word in this manner automatically assumes accountability and responsibility." - Bell Hooks.
I agree with these words on the measure of love "The kinder and the more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people.
Kindness enriches our life; with kindness mysterious things become clear, difficult things become easy, and dull things become cheerful.
Love is real only when a person can sacrifice himself for another person. Only when a person forgets himself for the sake of another, and lives for another creature, only this kind of love can be called true love, and only in this love do we see the blessing and reward of life. This is the foundation of the world.
Nothing can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness."
Loving the self as the first step in a "One Love" philosophy is not self-indulgent but rather is permission to dance our own dance, to be true to our own nature and embrace our particularized self-actualizing path. Self-love is self-knowing; a humble conscientiousness that frees us from an ego that thinks everything is about "me," pointing instead to the part we play in the larger production; a capacity to connect to community, to touch and be touched emotionally, to be a part of both local and global healing; to be co-creators of a more expansive and inclusive "we."
In an environment of love and acceptance (at long-last in many instances), as modeled by unconditional regard, things shift
There begins capacity for people to ultimately take responsibility for their own emotional nurturance and empowered to practice a whole range of self-care applications: physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually.
It invites readiness for behaviour change and invites a capacity for an authentic and lasting ability to feel (and generate) compassion for oneself
There is growth in inner resilience, clarity of mind, ability to "perspective-ize" in the moment (i.e., assume an observer's stance in order to gain a healthy view of the situation) and an increasing capacity to apply skillful and wise discernment to everyday decision-making.
Too often we rely on others as an external source of love... we firstly can romance ourselves
Starting to get an abundance of winter greens
Pulse Pasta with greens from the garden and stinging nettle pesto
Family meal prep
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