What is love?

What is love? Is it the fullness of connection with another being?

Can love be fully experienced without compassionate self-love? I believe that our ability to be loved is directly correlated to how much we love ourself. How can another love us, if our heart is atrophied from not loving ourself? Of course there can still be love, yet can it come close to the full expression of love in those beings?

I have realized that in the past, I have not done a very good job of loving myself. Not in a way of conceit, love in the sense of recognizing what I am truly here to be, and loving the fullness of what I am.

Have you withheld love from yourself? What if our culture encouraged healthy self-love? Could we experience a renaisssance of the fullness of love in the world? I believe it is possible!

Much love ALL