If we seek to be loved—if we expect to be loved—this cannot be accomplished; we will be dependent and grasping, not genuinely loving.
—M. Scott Peck, M.D.—
We receive love when we give love, with no strings attached. Bargaining for love is sure to disappoint us. It’s human nature, when bargainning for anything, to hope to pay only half of what something is worth. Expressing this attitude in our relationships guarantees that we’ll be shortchanged.
No one of us is free from the need for love.
And most of us search for reassurances of that love from the significant people in our lives. However, the search will be unending until we come to love ourselves. Love of self is assured when we understand our worth, our actual necessity in the larger picture of the events that touch us all. When we realize our value and see that life’s mysteries have reasons, we’ll no longer doubt ourselves and we’ll be free to love and understand another’s value too. We need never grasp for love when we sense the real meanıng of the lives that surround us.
I will love someone fully today and I’ll understand their meaning in my life.