mirror

 

I am convinced that genuinely loving another means seeing into them so purely that what is reflected back miraculously reveals what is also the best in us.

In a way, big love ignites in us a simultaneous love affair with ourselves, perhaps for the very first time, where the beloved mirrors what is possible for us to be and do and have. Not by changing anything about ourselves at all, but simply by lifting the veil that has kept us from seeing clearly what was there all along.

I don’t think anyone can feel this kind of love for another and not suddenly also feel greater love and understanding and hopefulness for oneself.

Love is very cool that way. And very powerful. These aren’t just hollow flowery words. Love can heal anything.

Anything.

 

~Cynthia