Going back is not an option, Dear One, and standing still will get you nowhere.

So, it looks like your options really are limited after all.

Everyone makes mistakes, Dear One.

But not everyone is brave enough to take responsibility for them, learn from them, let them go, and continue on.

Are you?

Trust yourself, Dear One. Trust your heart.  Always.

We know that sometimes that can be a difficult thing for you to do, especially when you feel as though you have sufficient evidence proving that doing so in the past has gotten you into trouble, has steered you in the wrong direction.

But what if we told you, that it just wasn’t true.  What if we told you that all of those experiences that you have had trusting your heart, the ones that did not work out the way that you wanted them to, the way that you thought they would, had in fact turned out exactly the way that you needed them to.

What if we told you that?

Your heart always, always, always knows, Dear One.

Trusting it will always, always, always serve you better than not trusting it ever will.

The stronger choice, the wiser choice, the more powerful choice, Dear One, will always be the one that moves you closer to that which is wanted instead of away from that which is unwanted.

Does that help?

You have come to this place to heal this place, Dear One.

You did not do something wrong.You are not being punished.  You are not being tested.  You are not being taught a lesson.

You are being given an opportunity to heal.

Take it.

Allow yourself to relinquish control, Dear One.

Allow yourself to bond with your own heart.

Allow yourself to feel its beating.  Allow yourself to feel its wanting.  Allow yourself to feel its passion.   Allow yourself to notice its subtleties – when it is happy, or glad, or giddy, when it is questioning, when it is certain, when it is emotionless, when it is filled with joy, filled with regret, filled with sadness, filled with love.

Allow yourself to feel it all, Dear One.  Allow yourself to want more for yourself than just the absence of discomfort, the absence of pain, the absence of desire.

Please do not make it your hearts ambition to feel as little as possible, Dear One.

For that would be as great a loss as choosing to close your eyes forever after witnessing only one sunrise.

If you feel as if you have been looking everywhere for love Dear One, and that it is constantly eluding you, we may be able to shed some light onto the subject of why your search has yielded no lasting results.

Love is not something that you search for, it is something that you allow.

Try changing your approach, try changing the way that you think about love, and we are certain that you will begin to see a change in your results as well.

Laugh, Dear One.  Laugh out loud, every chance that you can.  Don’t hold back.

Why?

Because laughter is an elixir and it  can cure what ails you.  Because you are never more open, more receptive, or more free then when you are loving and laughing.  It is like standing outside in the rain and trying not to get wet.  That is what laughter is like for healing.  You can not stand uncovered in the rain without getting wet, and you can’t laugh without allowing well-being to flow to you, through you and from you.

Wisdom, Dear One, is not gained by acquiring an understanding of something wise.

And wisdom is not gained by observing someone else demonstrate their understanding of something wise.

Wisdom can only ever be gained, Dear One, through living, through first-hand experience, by walking through the mess.

So keep reading. Keep observing. Keep listening.  Keep searching for inspiration.

But know that eventually, if you really want to get wise, you are going to have to dive-in, head-first, and get dirty.

It really is the only way.

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