The second life lesson is Love. We need to learn to love people for who they are, not for what we want them to be. Accepting others as they are and not how we would like them to be is the foundation of genuine love. Often we try to change people by manipulation or pressure, but it never works. The more we push people to change to our way, the more they will resist. While they may change externally, they will refuse to change internally. However, when we love people for who they are and accept them unconditionally, they will be drawn into change.
In order to love others we must let go of our conditions. We must be willing to love others no matter how they may respond to our love. When we fear that our love won’t be reciprocated, we close our hearts and make it impossible for the other person to respond in love. When we are angry we tend to withhold love and close our hearts in order to protect ourselves from getting hurt. However, this actually causes us to actually hurt ourselves. But when we open up our hearts and love others, then they are free to change and respond freely to our love. Until we learn to love unconditionally, we will not be able to truly live.
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