“Dear Human: You’ve got it all wrong.
You didn’t come here to master unconditional love. That is where you came from and where you’ll return. You came here to learn personal love. Universal love. Messy love. Sweaty love. Crazy love. Broken love. Whole love. Infused with divinity. Lived through the grace of stumbling. Demonstrated through the beauty of… messing up. Often. You didn’t come here to be perfect. You already are. You came here to be gorgeously human. Flawed and fabulous. And then to rise again into remembering. But unconditional love? Stop telling that story. Love, in truth, doesn’t need ANY other adjectives. It doesn’t require modifiers. It doesn’t require the condition of perfection. It only asks that you show up. And do your best. That you stay present and feel fully. That you shine and fly and laugh and cry and hurt and heal and fall and get back up and play and work and live and die as YOU. It’s enough. It’s Plenty.”
~ Courtney A. Walsh
Love this ❤
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Thanks Jess 🙂
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🙂
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I saw this quote maybe last year and absolutely fell in love with it! Thanks for the reminder again
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Hey Anay, Thank YOU for reading. I love the expression in these words too. I absolutely loved it as soon as I read it 🙂
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Thanks for the share, Zee. It’s a lesson that everybody needs to learn. The illusion of love can be so flawed.
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Flawed and unreal too. We need to except love with all its mess and craziness ! Thank YOU Rommel for reading, I’m glad you liked it as much as I did 🙂 ❤
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❤ Loved this Zee.
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Thanks a lot Kimberley, I loved this piece of writing too 🙂
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This is very meaningful and deep piece of text, Zee. And it’s so true. We aren’t perfect. We all have our flaws, and to live a life and learn and grow, we have to embrace our flaws and stop thinking too much about ourselves. It’s funny how a lot of us want to be someone else – or have someone else’s hair, skin colour and fashion sense – and so forget that each of us are different in our own ways.
To love others, first we have to first love ourselves 🙂 ❤
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Exactly, Different is what makes us “US”, The uniqueness, the flaws, The beauty in our flaws and everything else in between. I loved the way she out the ‘Ideal’ idea of love to rest, that there is no ‘Ideal’ love, Love doesn’t need adjectives as she said. Love is Love…in so many different ways…Simply put but so beautifully expressed by her.
Thanks Mabel for reading and leaving your thoughts with me ❤
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“the beauty in our flaws”. Exactly. We can always learn from our mistakes. At the end of the day, love is a feeling. It can come from one heart, or it can come from two hearts and the feeling is mutually shared. No one is perfect. We’re all imperfectly perfect in our own ways.
Thanks for chatting as always, Zee. Loving you right back ❤
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It was lovely chatting with you too Mabel. We are ‘Imperfectly perfect in our ways’ indeed. Cheers to imperfections that make us all beautiful and unique ! 🙂
See you soon ❤
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wow – that was dense and rich – and was great
“That you stay present and feel fully.”
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Thank you Y so much, This is a great piece of writing indeed 🙂
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Courtney sounds like one wise woman -!
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She does indeed 🙂
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Really awesome text Zee ❤
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Thanks Nad, I think so too 🙂
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Wow ! Amazing how simply yet eloquently Courtney Walsh summarised the the philosophy of life !! Thanks Zee for the post !
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Right !! I loved her way of expression and how beautifully she put it ! Thank YOU for reading it, I’m so glad everyone enjoyed it just as much as me 🙂
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I agree 🙂 it’s just fantastic I can read it over and over again 😁
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Courtney A. Walsh kudos to you for saying those words, and thank you Zee for sharing them.
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It was my absolute pleasure to share this, I loved the ways she put idea of love in such an elegant and philosophical way 🙂
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Wow! Isn’t it amazing, the simple, uncomplicated beauty of truth? This writing is so powerful! 😀
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Yes so true, Sometimes we need a different perspective to see the things in positive light. I loved the way she put the idea of love, so simple yet so eloquent 🙂
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Wow just so true..loved it!
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Thank you so much 🙂 ❤
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great quote and great image too – thanks for sharing 🙂
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Thank YOU Rai for reading ❤
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Love this!
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Me too Kate, Thanks for reading ! ^.^
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This made a tear drop from my eye, this person Courtney something has a deep deep understanding, never can I have comprehended if not by her…..actually I´m so cold that my tear dropped into my hand and turned into ice.
Very well said little devil! Actually reading this and knowing you wrote it is kind of scary to say the least.
So your still around then….I thought we had lost you.
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Are you sure it was a tear and not your nose running?
me scary? What? I’m the most adorable person ever and you love me to say the least ! 😉
And yeah I’ll be around still, just not as much as I used to be before. Will keep reading people and share some stuff time to time when I get time hopefully 🙂
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Better be around tomorrow when I get back home!!!!
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I’ll try my best ! 😉
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See? you did your best
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Great, great words, Zee. That’s all any of can do – and that is to do our best. 🙂
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I know right, That quote truly struck me! I’m glad you liked it too 😉
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