Love is internal

"Love is internal.... Only Interiority can give you Bliss."
I came across this quote yesterday and it was for me a profound truth.
Loving oneself just as I am opens the door to real understanding of all that I am. Believing that everything I do is enough at least for that moment it was my best is the first step in self acceptance. If I do not love who I am, how can I love others? Without self acceptance, everything I do is tinged with doubt and a lack of self-respect.

Sounds easy enough... but then yesterday I was reminded that even my thoughts of how I try to live according to the Golden Rule, "do unto others as you would have them do unto you" fall short. Can I honestly say that my actions do not harm others? No... when Fynn insisted on a bike ride and that involved mechanical work in the cold and not doing what I really wanted to be doing, my actions of prepping the bike and going for a ride were creating resentment within me toward him. It was very unloving to me and to him. And yet to the outside world, I was probably looking good. Not doing isn't the answer either, for then I would have felt denied Fynn and that too would have felt bad. The solution was to find the way within me that could allow for the doing with the desire to do.

Love is internal.

It is not what you do. It is what you do with a full open heart and positive intention that is blended love, for oneself and for the other.