I do love vintage Valentines, and this one with its cornucopia of hearts expresses exactly what I wish for you. An abundance of love in all areas of your life.
I think it’s an unnecessary limitation, and one that causes needless pain and challenge, to think Valentine’s Day need be focused on love in partnership, or tied into manufactured demand for consumerism. Luckily we get to define things as we want them, and I claim this as a delightful day celebrating love in all in guises.
I particularly like how Rumi frames it:
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
If we gave ourselves no other task in life than this, can you imagine what a rewarding exploration it would be to pursue such an openness? I think we should all take it on.
I believe in the generosity of love and hearts, and just like the Valentine’s cornucopia, I have my own collection.
Clearly I have a love of heart stones as well as vintage Valentines. And I have a great love for everyone who takes a moment of their time and spends it here with me – thank you! May today and every day be filled with love.
Love them.
Hearts aplenty for us all!
Love and an abundance of blessings on you, dear Deborah!
XOXO
Thank you my beautiful friend!
Love is all there is! Feel it, spread it, give it, receive it!
You do not have to be in a physical relationship to feel love! Love comes from within!
Here is love in abundance, coming at ya!
Received with open arms Vicki! 🙂
<3 <3 <3 !
More hearts to add to the cornucopia! And sending a supply right back to you Mary.
Heart Stones in abundance and joy…. Love to you Dear Deborah.
Love to you dear friend!
I must say I have mixed feelings about days like ‘Valentines day’ ‘World Animal day’ etc. Do we really need a day to remind us what is important? Shouldn’t we acknowledge and love each other, treat all species every day?
Love those stones, just amazing!
XxX
Here’s my take on it Patty…
Absolutely I believe we should acknowledge and love each other, and honor and care for all beings, in every moment. And it’s certainly my hope that many do. BUT I also believe that designating a collective time, inviting collective attention to be focused on something can be a very powerful thing indeed. It’s clear we’re all shaped by collective fields of energy and I think we ought to be maximizing our impact by using these collective fields of energy where our attention is turned to plant seeds and nurture all manner of loving-kindness.
Thank you for sharing your perspective on this. It really speaks to me and since I (too) believe we are all connecting via the same energy, you helped me view/address/think about this in a new way.
Wishing you a lovely weekend, big hugs, XxX
I love that rumi quote.
When my son died, I realized the barriers I had put up around myself. I didn’t want to love expansively. His death broke me open. It’s still not easy … I still feel the walls move up at times. but I am more aware.
and I keep reaching for love.
I believe one of the gifts of a broken heart, although of course it is so hard to think of gifts arising from such experiences, is precisely that it does tumble everything down and we get to look anew. It’s like standing in an in-between land – no longer in the place we once were, and not yet in the place we will come to inhabit more fully. There is so much to be gathered from those liminal places and experiences, and yet we have to keep ourselves open and vulnerable to continue to access the wisdom.
Love and best wishes to you Deborah 🙂
Thanks Fil – and to you as well!