A Return to Love

The ego is our self-love turned into self-hatred.

are our wounds—the places where we feel we can’t love any more, can’t connect any more deeply, can’t forgive past a certain point.

Why is it that we reached a certain age, looked around, and the enchantment was gone?

as though we’ve been lost in a dark, parallel universe where things are loved more than people. We overvalue what we perceive with our physical senses, and undervalue what we know to be true in our hearts.

Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life.

The spiritual journey is the relinquishment—or unlearning—of fear and the acceptance of love back into our hearts.

whatever else I could find to distract me from myself. I was always trying to make something happen in my life, but nothing much happened except all the drama I created around things not happening.

I have written it with an open heart. I hope you’ll read it with an open mind.

energy that had

been turning darker and more self-destructive every day.

the changes it produced inside of me were positive. I felt happy. I felt like I was beginning to calm down.