This February, join me for a different kind of love story. Seven days exploring how loving yourself first isn’t selfish—it’s how you become capable of the kind of love that changes everything. Because hope begins when you fill your own well.
Love is a force in motion. It builds when it’s shared and transforms everything it touches. But here’s the truth most of us learn too late: love doesn’t arrive from somewhere else. It flows from within.
A Sacred Thread
This matters, beautiful someone, because love is humanity’s highest calling. Our deepest truth.
In the Christian tradition, Jesus said, “Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” The apostle Paul wrote that of faith, hope, and love, “the greatest of these is love.”
The Jewish faith places “Love your neighbor as yourself” at the very center of Torah. Rabbi Akiva taught that this commandment is the great principle upon which all of Torah stands. The concept of chesed—loving-kindness—runs through every page of Jewish scripture, with the Talmud teaching that “the world stands on three things: Torah, service, and acts of loving-kindness.”
In Islam, the Quran teaches that God’s mercy, which is love in action, “encompasses all things.” And the Prophet Muhammad said, “You will not enter Paradise until you believe, and you will not believe until you love one another.”
In Buddhism, the Karaniya Metta Sutta provides the instruction to cultivate boundless loving-kindness: “Even as a mother protects with her life her child, her only child, so with a boundless heart should one cherish all living beings.”
And in the Bhagavad Gita, one of Hinduism’s most sacred texts, Krishna teaches that true devotees are “friendly and compassionate towards all, without thoughts of I-and-mine,” revealing that compassion is the mark of a liberated soul.
It’s amazing that each of these traditions arose out of vastly different cultures. In different centuries. Speaking different languages. Facing different challenges.
Yet they all independently arrived at the same profound conclusion.
Love is the highest human capacity. The greatest virtue. The fundamental energy that connects one human being to another.
They each found that love is what flows beneath everything. What connects everything. What makes everything work.
This isn’t metaphor or aspiration.
It’s the fundamental law of the universe, as real as gravity, as constant as light.
When we align ourselves with it, when we let love in all its forms move through us with its full velocity, we’re not striving toward some distant ideal.
We’re aligning with the way things actually are.
We’re not just becoming who we’re meant to be. We’re discovering how the world is meant to work. And realizing we’ve always been essential to that design.
Next: We are hurting. All of us. What trauma says vs. what love says—and why love is the bridge back to each other when despair tries to convince us we’re alone.
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