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Excerpt of "An Uncommon Bond - - novel" By Jeff Brown

Sometimes people walk away from love because it is so beautiful that it terrifies them.
Sometimes they leave because the connection shines a bright light on their dark places and they are not ready to work them through.
Sometimes they run away because they are not developmentally prepared to merge with another- they have more individuation work to do first.
Sometimes they take off because love is not a priority in their lives- they have another path and purpose to walk first.
Sometimes they end it because they prefer a relationship that is more practical than conscious, one that does not threaten the ways that they organize reality.
Because so many of us carry shame, we have a tendency to personalize love's leavings, triggered by the rejection and feelings of abandonment.
But this is not always true. Sometimes it has nothing to do with us.
Sometimes the one who leaves is just not ready to hold it safe.
Sometimes they know something we don't- they know their limits at that moment in time.
Real love is no easy path- readiness is everything.
May we grieve loss without personalizing it. May we learn to love ourselves in the absence of the lover....

The balm of healing <3

"Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it."

- Emily Dickinson

"The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal..."

"At the center of your being, you have the answer;
you know who you are and you know what you want."
- Lao Tzu

One moment at a time...

"Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once,
but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach."
- Clarissa Pinkola Estes

"Hillary Clinton belongs in the White House. Donald Trump belongs on my show." Jerry Springer ;)

“my sweet heart,
You have aroused my passion,
Your touch has filled me with desire,
i am no longer separate from You,
these are precious moments,
i beseech You,
don’t let me wait...”

- Rumi, The Essential Rumi

"If you obsess over whether you are making the right decision,
you are basically assuming that the universe will reward you for one thing and punish you for another.
The universe has no fixed agenda.
Once you make any decision,
it works around that decision.
There is no right or wrong,
only a series of possibilities that shift with each thought, feeling,
and action that you experience.
- Deepak Chopra

On the thorns of life ...

Only be sacrificing everything to pleasure ... may one succeed in sowing a few roses. —Marquis de Sade

Self love = Self care

"Go back and take care of yourself.
Your body needs you, your feelings need you, your perceptions need you.
Your suffering needs you to acknowledge it.
Go home and be there for all these things."

Thich Nhat Hanh