"To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest." Pema Chödrön

When you think of your past love, you may view it as a failure. But when you find a new love, you view the past as a teacher. In the game of love, it really doesn't matter who won or who lost. What is important is you know when to hold on and when to let go. You know you really love someone when you want him or her to be happy, even if his or her happiness means that your not a part of it. Everything happens for the best. If the person you love doesn't love you back, don’t be afraid to love someone else again, for you'll never know unless you give it a try. You'll never love a person unless you risk for love. Love strives in hurting. If you don't get hurt, you don’t learn how to love. Love doesn't hurt all the time, though the hurting is still there to test you and help you grow. Don’t find love, let love find you. That is why it is called falling in love because you don’t force yourself to fall. You just fall.

You cannot finish a book without closing its chapters. If you want to go on, then you have to leave the past as you turn the pages. Love is not destroyed by a single failure or won by a single caress. It is a lifetime venture in which we are always learning, discovering and growing. The greatest irony of love is letting go when you need to hold on and holding on when you need to let go. We lose someone we love only when we are destined to find someone else who can love us even more than we can love ourselves. On falling out of love, take some time to heal and then get back on the horse. Don’t ever make the same mistake of riding the same one that threw you the first time.

Sometimes the things that give you joy can also hurt you in the end. Loving people means giving them freedom that they choose to be and where they choose to be. Loving someone means giving them the freedom to find their way, whether it leaves towards you or away from you. Love is a painful risk to take but the risk must be taken no matter how scary or painful, for only then you'll experience the fullness of humanity and that is love. Only love can hurt your heart, fill you with desire or tear you apart. Only love can make you cry and only love knows why. If you are not ready to cry, if your not ready to take that risk, or feel the pain, then your not ready to fall in love. There was a time in our lives when we became afraid to fall in love because every time we do, we get hurt.

Love is like a knife. It can stab the heart or it can carve wonderful images into the soul that always last for a lifetime. Love is supposed to be the most wonderful feeling. It should inspire you to grow and give you joy and strength, and offer comfort in your darkest hour.

To love is to risk rejection; to live is to risk dying, to hope is to risk failure. But risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is risking nothing. To reach for another is to risk involvement, to expose your feelings is to expose true self; to love is to risk not to be loved in return.

People fear giving love and falling fast, they fear they will love someone undeserving of their heart, but truthfully we are all deserving of love, even the most selfish hurtful people are deserving of love, they need it the most. Some where in that hardened soul lies a being who has been hurt beyond imagination..with patience and compassion they too can learn to love again...

Risk it all, truth is you never know and you never will unless you learn to let go.....

thank you for all the dear, beautiful experiences that graced my days with smiles that made my cheeks hurt..giving birth to limitless opportunities for greater clarity and empowerment….

thank you for your light, the living essence of love that pulsates through your being, your body, your every organ, for being in your company allowed me to feel and see that which truly lies within you….

thank you for the call in my heart, the call for love that drew me to you like a magnet, inspiring me to crave more experiences, and loving situations bringing forth the vision and manifestation of my most joyful dreams.

thank you for coming to me at a time in my life when my light was diminished, your spark rekindled me for that I show deep gratitude for lighting the flame within me…..

thank you for reminding me of the intensity of longing, that keeps me ever on the lookout for something more, for that deeper love that lost souls live for.

thank you for your gentle words, like a spark of light they illuminated my soul

and as each sound of your voice goes deeper, I realize it is you that has helped make me whole

thank you for there is no corner, dark place, no cave that your compassion does not fill and when the world creates high waves, its your devotion that makes them still

thank you for always speaking to me, with raw honesty and truth your caring heart keeps out the rain, you love is my sheltering roof

I thank you for coming into my life, regardless that it was brief, you've changed my view on love, our experience ...bittersweet