Love may have hurt us. Love may have disappointed us. Love may have betrayed us. We may have learned to feel guilt, shame, and anxiety at the very thought of love. The breaking of trust we experienced in the family, church, or elsewhere, and all the emotional suffering, was not really about love.
I hope you will give love the benefit of the doubt and hold in abeyance your distrust of the idea that you can live life as a source of love. Be reassured that what other people have called “love” is not necessarily love and that an understanding of real love—the stuff of your emotional or spiritual core and the goodness you have to share with others—can transform your life and the lives you touch.
Love is at the heart of being the best we can be as human being.
Culled from Guilt, Anxiety and Shame by Peter R. Breggin
Abdulkareem,Taoheedah Kehinde
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