True Love

With Valentine's Day around the corner and all the red hearts in shop windows, you can't help not to think about love.......
Are you also waiting for a card that will make your heart beat faster and give you butterflies in your stomach?
We all want the feeling - of being in love - but it only lasts a little while. . . .
The reality is that true love is an act of your will - it is not a feeling - even though it might start that way.
True love asks courage to make yourself vulnerable and to reach out to the other person. You need to cross your boundaries and to risk rejection and hurt. But that is true love, it is all about spiritual growth.
True love is not to occupy someone, is not to be needy of someone, it is not self-sacrificing - it is self fulfilment. It is impossible to love someone if you don't love yourself.
True love is to pay attention, and to listen. .
True Love is not just to give, but to give wisely and to know when not to give.
True love is what true love does. .