Because as I succeed, I am honored each time you share with me…and happy to see your life, wherever it takes you otherwise. Can I open myself to receive your beauty in the depths of my being, without expecting to receive it again? I work at it. And you – this moment – is so precious… I want to be with it fully…so there is no part of me left to make up stories about the future. I appreciate you as fully I can…appreciate all that you freely give. I know I don’t need anything from you…so I am free to want for you congruently. Everything beautiful and enriching…everything positive that you want for yourself… I delight in your happiness and celebrate everything that brings you joy! I seek to know you as you are, that I may love you as that. So I seek to see you for you-the unique expression of life that you are – independent of me.

So I really only see me, and you become a commodity. If I want something from you, I see everything you do and say for how it affects me. So I will not pretend that I have and risk missing reality. I have never seen you before – the you of this moment. I will not punish you for being honest.Īnd I want to see you as you are now, in this moment as you change and grow. If I want to play with a fantasy, I can do that on my own. I want to know you, in your depth and fullness and realness… Not a fantasy that I make up and project on you, then punish you for not being. Your attractions and repulsions…your feelings, desires, thoughts, emotions…all threads in the tapestry that you are…all with a purpose to serve. Your light and your shadow…your beauty, and the parts you have yet to find the beauty in. I see your deepest yearnings, and the absolute innocence that you truly are.Īnd I want to see you. I see your goodness, underneath and through all your actions…even the misguided and hurting ones. What possible price tag could be put on something infinitely rare? I see your irreplaceable uniqueness: there has never been nor will there ever be another one like you. I see your sensitivity, and your strength. I see the feeling, experiencing being that you are.

What is love means to you