Love

A broken heart is crumpled, shrivelled. It changes even if you never shut your heart out, and it isn’t really the same each time it happens. What is held in awareness is empowered. What is shoved out of awareness withers.

There is loving someone, and there is “falling in love”. They aren’t contrary, and neither are they identical. I would offer that giving and receiving had not be independent things. If you give your heart you aren’t loosing it, but immersing your awareness in a process that permeates the world anyway. You are just letting it be personal. In the eastern disciplines you give and receive chi. Which is seen as the essence of your very being.

Unconditional love is the willingness to allow those we care about to be exactly as they are. “Emo” is a passive defiance of a culture that makes passion taboo. It has manifested repeatedly in anything after the hippy movement. It’s a collective counter spirit. Emo is its current stage, and it’s the strangeness that can reveal the lie of todays culture if anyone was paying any attention.

“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.” Morrie Schwartz