Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide to Life & Death and Love & Sex

But if you allow yourself to fully incarnate these feelings of fear, need, and emptiness—if you open as them, breathe as them, and allow your body to be moved as them—then you allow yourself to live as the full power of love.

If you can feel that all the time, then who cares what happens outside? If you can always feel up, if you can always feel excited about the experience of the moment, then it doesn’t make any difference what the experience is. No matter what it is, it’s beautiful when you feel that way inside. So you learn to stay open no matter what happens. If you

To grow in freedom is to develop the capacity to remain open as love even in the most difficult—as well as the most pleasurable—circumstances. This growth involves combining yourself entirely with the actual emotional texture of the present moment.

Practicing love often means feeling through fear: intentionally opening yourself when you would rather close down, giving yourself when you would rather hide. Love means recognizing yourself as the open fullness of this moment regardless of its contents—trenchant thoughts, enchanting pleasures, heavy emotions, or gnawing pains—and surrendering all