love, at its highest

The most beautiful and horrifying act is to come into oneself, wholly and newly, and also participate in relationship.
Because we often end up shape-shifting in relationships, forgetting ourselves, fading, over accommodating, clamoring, resenting…

None of which is the wholeness at work.

To be our true self, to be so knowing of our own complicated soul, and to stand before another saying, I want to be in deep connection with you; I want to navigate the world with you, is faulty and risky and foolish, and it is love. Love, at its highest.

Stay brave, my dear. Trust your feet under you. Listen to your heart.
This is the ascent.