Chocolate Covered Learning.

If you want everyone to love you, you have to fall in love with everyone - Sadhuguru. I may be paraphrasing slightly but the meaning is there. I find it amazing that we stumble across something that fits, makes sense and gives that "aha" moment I feel we are all looking for. Never has this thought crossed my mind in such a straight forward way. 

I am not sure if it is the idea of wanting everyone to fall in love with me that makes it a bit uncomfortable at first, but the idea of falling in love with everyone makes perfect sense. How can we expect others to accept us, like us, love us or whatever if we cant like, accept or love others. I mean we may not always like what someone has to say, or what they do or the way they go about things - but we can love. 

Love may be simple but relationships are not always easy - and I wonder if this is because we want to withhold our love as a punishment. 

There are parts of all of us that seek acceptance, community, unity and balance - why can't we be friends? There must be many reasons, and there may be many reasons we like to tell ourselves and to tell others. Reasons take time. Love just is. 

As we unfold our many layers we see the layers in others. We learn a lot about a person by listening to what they are saying. We all tell our secrets someway or another. 

I have realized that people can love you a lot and not like you very much. But hey I used to not like olives and now I love them. What happened? I am not too sure other than I accepted the flavour of the olive knowing that it would never be chocolate and that's cool..... I can enjoy both.