This is a concept I have written about several times...
...loving simply for the sake of the joy it brings to the lover, not with an expectation of anything in return.
It is easy to feel when you are with the one you love. It is more difficult to maintain when the relationship has ended.
I strive to live in this way. I continue to strive to live in this way even as it remains a mystery as to how to accomplish. I strive to love my aloneness so that I may love without expectation.
Western training and tradition do not prepare us for this way of relating. So we will have to be our own teachers.
Fascinating.
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