Alan Watts | The Wisdom of Living Fully

Love is a hurricane. Love is movement. Love is union through transformation.

To love is to die to who you think you are, and open to the possibility of who you truly are.

Love is not something you do, it is your essence, beneath all barriers, distortions, and defenses.

To experience true love requires tremendous courage. It means surrendering the illusion of control, loving without the need to change, caring without the urge to fix, cherishing without the desire to possess.

It is like loving the sun for the way it shines: not because it seeks reward, not because it needs to prove itself, but because shining is its nature.

True love is not safe, its not a haven from the storm of existence, it is the storm itself. It is the willingness to be swept away, to be transformed and to be completely torn apart. 

Love is like holding a butterfly; firm enough to feel its presence in each moment, yet light enough to let it go when the time comes

- Alan watts

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