I've noticed...you have to be willing to be hurt by the ones you love — it is the only way.
The alternative — being unwilling to be hurt by them — never works for the reason that make sense to you because it is the belief that I can only love when I’m not being hurt that is the true illusion. This is based in the fear that I am only loved when I deserve to be loved, which is a fatal flaw in our perception of what love is, both in terms of receiving and giving it.
This is the way all those who have loved greatly have taken — willingness to let yourself be hurt by those you love...by the way, the very thing that makes you even more capable of love.
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