you've got it all wrong

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dear human, you've got it all wrong. you didn't come here to master unconditional love. that is where you come from and where you'll return. you came here to learn personal love. universal love. messy love. sweaty love. crazy love. broken love. whole love. infused with divinity. lived through the grace of stumbling. demonstrated through the beauty of... messing up. often. you didn't come here to be perfect. you already are. you came here to be gorgeously human. flawed and fabulous. and then to rise again into remembering. but unconditional love? stop telling that story. love, in truth, doesn't need any other adjectives. it doesn't require modifiers. it doesn't require the condition of perfection. it only asks that you show up. and do your best. that you stay present and feel fully. that you shine and fly and laugh and cry and hurt and heal and fall and get back up and play and work and live and die as you. it's enough. 
it's plenty.
- c. walsh 

26 comments:

  1. This is beautiful!

    xx

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  2. Love this.

    Lx

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  3. 33 years married and this sounds pretty descriptive. There is no "one soul mate." Expecting perfection is a sure way to end up: 1) never married or 2) divorced. You both show up, try your best, forgive a lot, laugh as much as you can and remember its another fragile human on the other side of the bed. Wishing you love, you fabulous woman, you, and so glad to have met you.

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  4. Wow - this is so awesome! Sometimes you just need to read pieces like this to remind yourself to step back and breath ;-) Thank you for posting.

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  5. What a lovely post, so beautyful.. I like it

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  6. So beautifully written!

    LUXESSED

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  7. Lovely post! And so well and wisely written!

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  8. wonderful post. thanks for sharing! didn't know this quote before. it's so true and wise.
    and this picture fits perfect to the words.
    wish you a nice evening!!

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  9. So beautiful post!! Really like your blog :)
    Following now! Have a great week.

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  10. This is incredible. The quote and picture work wonderfully together.

    xx Kait

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  11. Great quote! :) I'm following you via bloglovin!

    xx Denysia Yu
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  12. That is such a wonderfully true and challenging quote :). Thanks for sharing, was lovely to read first thing in the morning :).

    Rachael xx.

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  13. Love this - what a beautiful quote and photo! x, Kat

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  16. nice quote. Have a great day.

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  18. Beautiful and very inspiring. Thanks for sharing. Just followed you back :) xoxo ES
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