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“Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go.”

― Jamie Anderson

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PUBLIC DISPLAY OF AFFECTION
PUBLIC DISPLAY OF AFFECTION
virginia woolf from a letter to katherine mansfield
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It feels like a privilege to love freely
Perhaps it finally feels safe to feel the way I do
To love the way I do
It finally feels the way it’s supposed to
To be simple and easy like it’s supposed to
Have my desires come to fruition?
Have I met the one to love me like I do?
Am I going to get hurt?
Is this going to last?
I don’t want to repeat my past
I don’t want to repeat the same lessons
And the depths of those pains
I want to finally move forward
As much as my love for others have hurt at times,
I forgot how powerful real love can be
I forgot how healing love can be
Love is a force
Love requires the work
Love does not mean suffering
Love does not equal pain
I can’t help but feel scared
For how far my love will take me this time
It feels like I’m starting over in the best way
I am staying present
And not worrying about the end anymore
I am letting everything be
The way it should be

How do I love again?

"I think that we best realize love in community. This is something I have had to work with myself, because the intellectual tradition of the West is very individualistic. It’s not community-based. The intellectual is often thought of as a person who is alone and cut off from the world. So I have had to practice being willing to leave the space of my study to be in community, to work in community, and to be changed by community."

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to love people so completely and so effortlessly might be the most rebellious act in a world of uncertainty and hate.

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