Ever since that troublemaker Eve handed that gullible Adam the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, they say, human beings have been continuously messing up and suffering the consequences. But in the depths of your darkest despair your Beloved calls to you: "Look, " he says, and opens the fathomless beautiful wound of his heart so that you can peer inside. All creation is nestled there, bathed in beauty. "Do you see any sin here?" he asks. "Do you detect a shred of retribution?" You do not. All you perceive, from horizon to endless horizon, is love. Mirabai Starr
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When we get hurt, we often feel like we are not worthy of love. We feel like we messed up and lost out on love. Love hurts because we never knew how to receive it. Love is more than a feeling, it is an action.

When we know how to receive it, the pain of love disappears. Love is not a feeling that can be felt and then taken away and replaced with another feeling. To be able to receive love, we must learn to love ourselves first.

Source: The Showings Of Julian Of Norwich: A New Translation

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