248 thoughts on “Love can only Love Me Back”

1. You sum up beautifully Adele how we can pursue endless options for fulfilling ourselves – God knows the world has a big menu of these – but none of them work. Whichever way you look at it, it’s clear to me we’ve had things upside down and back to front – it is we who are here to be and illustrate Love – it’s not something we are to demand from someone else. So let’s get on with living this way.

2. When we reconnect to the love within our inner-heart there is nothing to do but just be love.

3. Simple title yet powerful words. Keep searching for love from another and sooner or later we all discover it has been waiting patiently for us to return from within.

4. ‘Love is a collective condition’ – Beautifully said Adele and so very true. Love is a vibration that represents the oneness we all borne from.

5. When we come to know the quality of true love it is then we understand how love can never discriminate, measure, judge, hold expectations, be bought, sold or owned. Love is a beholding quality the emanates from the light of who we are, always embracing and calling us to be more love as such is the great equaliser representing the truth of us all. As in essence we are all love, as such we are all inherently equal.

6. This is beautiful..touching all the areas I am feeling within myself. Feeling that old way which I have lived which is partly of what I live today, feeling the actual loss of me investing in everything that I was not.. At the same time feeling indeed that love is true and can only love you back – its a given, so time to give that all the way to myself and discard all the unloving ways.

7. Thank you for this beautiful blog Adele. The ‘things we do for love’ are not love at all and it’s easy to see that the struggle for recognition and acceptance is one that will only end when we choose to be the love that we are.

8. Your blog summarises so beautifully the apparent conundrum of human life. We feel we cannot be open raw and real with everyone but only to a select few we truly trust and feel connection with. But this is simply not true because it is all coming from seeking love outside of us instead of being the love we truly are first which does not need Love back from anyone.

9. ‘We cannot really be ‘doing’ love – we can only be it’ Our body innately knows love, and so when we are love we are in complete harmony.

10. All these thoughts you describe Adele are like all the conditions I seem to have in my head ‘if person a is like this I will Love them but if they do x, well, I will not’. These conditions, like bad maths formulas run on and on in my life. But all they are in the end is obstacles to the truth – Love is something we choose to be, to embody – it’s a quality of energy not a commodity that can be given to me.

11. We can have so many thoughts about what Love is, the beliefs and ideals, they pile up. So much of it usually revolves around ‘me’, myself and I. True Love works with the universe, the all and every last cell. Thank you Adele for this chance to remember I am here to cherish myself but Love and life is not just about me.

12. It’s crazy how we seek protection from the world when Love is not what we feel in it and in doing so we are not able to be loved back. For what we put out is what comes back. Put out Love, let Love back in. Put out lovelessness and expect everything that is not Love back.

13. Love is within us all, we are all naturally love, so why not embrace this for all the world to see. It is our choice to embody this love, each and every one of us, ‘one day, this love that I have been practising and opening myself to, has allowed me to feel so truly loved, and this love is no different from the love I share every time I love someone else deeply.’

14. So what we are taught from young about love is not true love, that makes sense, ‘I went to many places and have done many things in the name of ‘love’, however, that which I thought was ‘love’, still hurts many people including myself.’

15. Most of us live our days with a gaping hole inside that we try and fill – with relationships looking for love, entertainment looking for love – a love outside to satiate the hole within. But one day, all of us return to looking inside that bit deeper beyond that hole, and we feel the warmth of the love we have always yearned for – the love that we actually are. And when that realisation comes it changes everything. Life becomes about this love, deepening it always because it is always expanding, and reflecting it to all others to remember also – that love is never outside of us. It is within, a roaring warm fire to embrace you to the depths of your being.

16. Beautiful Adele, it was very liberating for me too when I realised that I AM love, so how can I not ever be loved. Now I live with love, no matter what is going on around me…

17. Having a genuine honesty with ourself is key in helping us to see what we are choosing in life and in our relationships – are we being who we truly are or are we changing the front we put out in order to meet what we think is wanted of us?

18. Love that you expose about how many of us get caught in the idea of doing love and not being it, it is true we think we can give something, or take an action and that proves love, but love is in the quality we hold ourselves and others in.

19. You beautifully articulate Adele the millions of roads we go down looking for Love, only to find they are dark dead ends. It seems to be so tempting to think there is someone else out there who can give you this care. My experience is they just don’t exist, this Love is a gift only you can give. So save yourself some serious energy, and stop looking outside of the warmth of your heart for someone to hug, cherish and adore you. This is your main job, in the first place.

20. Awesome, giving ourselves go, and offering ourselves the love we seek from others. Revolution, a way of living that will change the world, because we build a foundation that offers true love and care to everyone around us, when we know love from within.

21. Adele, I ‘love’ your point about what hurts most and it is not feeling the truth of love but all the interpretations of it.

22. It’s a great reflection to witness to let yourself know if you are truly loving yourself or not by what comes back through your own movements if they feel absolutely Glorious in the body or not (hard, not flowing, jarred) “Love can only love me back.” So “.. how can not living who I am really confirm who I truly am.” And “.. my real job is knowing myself and reflecting that in every part of my life.”

23. The powerful reflection of truth is on every page of the ‘Purple Books’ scribed by Serge Benhayon, leaving no doubt as to the truth of the love that we all are, equally-so, within our essence.
    “I knew I was not alone in this when I met with the reflection from Serge Benhayon’s books. I knew that my heart had not lied to me, that: God is Love and Only Love”.

24. Joseph, I love the examples you use to expose how ridiculous it is to keep wanting our love confirmed, when it simply is, just is who we are, innately so.

25. I love the title, it’s very true!

26. It is only when we feel the love within us that we can really love another, it is actually that simple. When we hold ourselves in ‘any’ sort of critique, judgement, lack of understanding or not in our fullness, we cannot hold another in the same light. That is becoming more and more crystal clear to me, how I live and then how that impacts on my feelings towards anyone around me.

27. Adele, returning to this beautiful blog has supported me claim the true love I am and to hold this first above all else. It can appear easy to get caught up in the ‘Love’ that come from outside of us, that doing for everyone else, having a good time partying, or living by the rules someone else rewards are what is loving, but in truth this is harmful to self and to others for we are not being honest. Thank you again for the reminder that it is ‘Love that Loves you back’.

28. This is so beautiful to feel the truth of this as I read what you’ve written. I have my own version of why I wouldn’t be loved and have tried hard to be loved. But when I re-connect with what I know to be love, love loves and I am not separate from it. So thank you for this reminder.

29. This is a beautiful understanding of true love Adele and how much we miss out on the grandness and glory of this deep love if we accept a lesser version of love.

30. What do I say, how do I move, what is the quality that I choose? It might seem like we are paying attention to minuscule things, but my experience is they absolutely add up. Without the love for myself in all of these, the sums and equations will always equal disharmony, difficulty and complication. Love brings such simplicity to the maths of our life. Thank you Adele for the clear reminder.

31. God is love and only lover; we are sons of God and only love. Thus it is our responsibility to let our innate and natural love shine. True understanding and acceptance of this fact is my challenge.

32. We seek love but what we need to understand is that we are love and thus it comes back to choosing love.

33. Adele this is a powerful and moving blog to read.I love how you no longer need to seek outside yourself and came back to love through being in re-connection within your body. Totally inspiring, thank you.
    “When I ran out of options, I decided to give loving myself a try. This began as a discipline that introduced more and more gentleness towards myself, and rather than holding on to right or wrong, I began to feel from my body and listened to it. Until one day, this love that I have been practising and opening myself to, has allowed me to feel so truly loved, and this love is no different from the love I share every time I love someone else deeply”.

34. Adele, all that you have shared and all the offerings you have added have been a true support in deepening my understanding of love and of grounding me in feeling and holding that love. This has been a truly beautiful exercise and it is with deep appreciation I express a ‘humble’ thank you.

35. We need only begin with the restoration of the true meaning of love, to come back home to ourselves once again. A beautiful exposition on this fact Adele, thank-you for sharing.

    1. Both words – resurrection and restoration – reflect the fact that we are returning to the true meaning of the word love, done only through the way and quality in which we live our lives.
       What a blessing, to have the awareness that the true quality is actually known within, and that we need not seek outside of ourselves for it. Through recognising and saying no to what is not true, the shining gem of universal truth is revealed once more.

36. We have all heard the sonorous tones of religious teachers saying God is love… Said until it totally lost its meaning… I know this was the case for me. It really is like a miracle when a connection is made within to who we truly are, to that divine love that rests within, so that we can start the unfolding journey of realizing the living this of this statement

37. “When I ran out of options, I decided to give loving myself a try.” isn’t it funny how we can leave loving ourselves to being the last option. When really it should be our very first.

38. Your simple and honest words make me realise once more Adele, that any moment I am seeking support from people or situations outside of me, I am already lost and far away from the true facts of life: I am Love, I am warmth, tenderness and understanding. And if this is awol or absent with leave, inside of me is where I will always re-find it.

39. Even though i keep trying to turn my back on the amount of love that is within is overwhelming. Ten years ago it was not something i understood and then it was something i held in knowledge it wasn’t until i lived it practically making small changes as they unfolded that i began to feel how endless this love is.

40. A lovely examination of the intricacies of love, thank you Adele. The stand-out phrase for me on this reading was ‘I was ‘loved’ when I was weak.’ I’m thinking of all the ways this had played out in my own life, and how it’s far more comfortable to play to that weakness than stand tall and empowered. Staying small we guarantee love in the form of being liked and acceptable, an emotional-based love… which has nothing to do with love in truth. Well done for not being willing to compromise the love that you are, and finding support for that by turning to the love within.

41. ‘This began as a discipline that introduced more and more gentleness towards myself, and rather than holding on to right or wrong, I began to feel from my body and listened to it.’ It is amazing how responsive our body and life becomes when we honour our natural flow and rhythm. When I started making simple changes with how I was with myself and in my life I was truly surprised with how quickly I seemed to undo my past choices by connecting to myself and moving forward in life from that connection, making choices from my heart and listening to my body. Our body and our being is ready to surrender to all the love we are if we just et go of the patterns and behaviours that don’t honour our innermost. The love we are.

42. This is a deeply delicious blog Adele. Thank you for sharing and I love love love how you have exposed all the trappings and things we can fall for in society as being love, when in fact they are not. ‘how can not living who I am really confirm who I truly am.’ This is true – if we live what we are not then that is what we are confirmed in but if we live who we are in our heart we will confirm everything of who we truly are even though this may make us stand out a lot because the majority in society do not do this. There are so many gems in this blog and I will enjoy commenting on them.

43. There is a certain irony that when we know who we truly are, the depth of this knowing unifies us with every single person that lives and breathes on planet Earth in the sense that we feel the truth of our origins, the absolute majesty and divinity we are ALL born from. We feel the depth of this connection to our bones and beyond. However, due to our current predicament here, most of us do not walk around knowing we are each an equal Son of God and so when someone does move in and with this knowing they stand out because it is not what the majority of people are at this stage choosing for themselves. So on the one hand, knowing God brings us closer together because it honours the fact that we are all One, unified by this eternal love, but it also makes us stand out from the crowd. This can be quite unsettling initially as we innately know we are no different to each other in essence but until we all express what is within us out into the world, we will keep living in this seeming divide. Perhaps this is why many of us shy away from claiming the truth of who we really are – we fear the reaction of others along with the greater responsibility we carry for holding this reflection.

    1. Liane, I melt when I read your comments – they are irrefutable, absolute and speak to every cell in me and I can feel the one unified love we all belong to. ‘knowing God brings us closer together because it honours the fact that we are all One, unified by this eternal love,’ it is this depth of relationship with ourself and God that makes us all know we are equal and is proof that love can never be a doing but is simply a being all that we naturally and truly are.

44. No time for ‘holding’ any more, that feels like flatlining. The expression of Love s always in expansion.

45. Unless love is expressed from my body then it is just empty words. It is through my body that true love is expressed.

46. I also love how you share your way back to loving yourself – by being gentle in your every movement, thought and action, and letting go of right and wrong. When we judge ourselves as being right or wrong, or hold ourselves up against an image of who we think we need to be, it’s a kind of prison that we put ourselves in – one entirely of our own making and one that feels suffocating, draining, and stifling.

47. So true – when our bodies start communicating loudly with us that aligning to external rhythms and not the rhythms of our own body isn’t working, it’s a call to go deeper within, to look at why we are working in the way we’re working: if our body is not getting anything out of an abusive way of working, then what are we getting out of it? Recognition, the need to feel ‘safe’ and in control – which are really just illusions, since we don’t actually control anything at all.

48. This blog is just exactly what I needed to read today Adele, thank you. It seems that loving ourselves comes bottom of our list of things we’re prepared to give a go – after searching high and low outside of ourselves for answers, at some point, turning inwards and re-connecting with what’s there, is the only option left. And what an awesome option it is, too, as we begin to re-discover who we truly are, underneath all the layers of ‘stuff’.

49. Super revealing and powerful blog. Showing us that there is only one way to love. That is re-connect to our within and accept all there is. Enormously so. Thank you Adele for sharing such simply truthfullness.

50. True, we can never feel lonely when we open up to the love that is within us, yes love ourselves, and through this we are accessing something so deep and grand, and knowing of our universality and a foundation of love that is within us all.

51. I just Love this blog Adele. The teachings of Ancient Wisdom through Serge Benhayon have allowed me to realise that enormous Love I am and that we all naturally are. You put it so beautifully,… ‘ How could I ever feel scared or sad or lonely and not loved?
    It is absurd and impossible for me now.
    Love can only love me back.’

52. I can fully relate to everything Adele has shared here, I lived too with all those thoughts and the emptiness of believing them. That was until I too started to self love. This is an ongoing, continually deepening way of being in the world that has allowed me to feel the love I hold inside, that is actually constantly wanting to be expressed in loving others.

53. Adele, ‘this love that I have been practising and opening myself to, has allowed me to feel so truly loved, and this love is no different from the love I share every time I love someone else deeply,’ is gorgeous. From someone who is realising how little I’ve truly loved myself and is coming back, this is gorgeous to read. Thank you.

54. Yes Adele, It’s those thoughts we have that are truly mad. For our particles and cells never want to be apart, we are naturally made to know and enjoy Love. Its just the thoughts that are not us that get in the way of the bodies wisdom leading the way.

55. Truly expressing love and living from love within ourselves can bring nothing other than love back. What I am constantly learning is that no investment of what is outside of that love helps me to see clearly what is going on in relationships, and in the world around me.

56. How gorgeous that after a lifetime of looking for true love and being hurt by the love we have created and settled for, you have found a way to be everything for yourself, no longer betrayed, misled or lost but rather embraced forever from within.

57. “What I thought to be love, was actually condoning and perpetuating separation, first and foremost, to myself.” A standout line in a blog radiant with wisdom and true love. Lately I have begun to feel how I have chased love while refusing to be it. Certainly not a fruitful or fulfilling way to operate.

58. I heard for most of my formative years… ( I was an Altar boy in the Anglican Church until I was 15 ☺) that God is love… It never made any sense at all and was just words until I attended presentations by Universal Medicine

59. I have found that in taking care for myself is bringing me back to my body from where I rejoined my connection with God, that inner spark that lives in all of us and in making us equal and the same. it feels like coming home when reconnecting to that inner spark, as I felt it all my life like a string that always pulled me back to question myself and my relationship with the purpose of life, that there must be more to it that I could grasp at that moment but now, by connection with the love that resides in my body, is easily understood and no question for me anymore.

60. So beautiful to read and feel the love that loves us back, thank you Adele for sharing your experience.

61. Adele I felt such a joy while reading what you have so beautiful shared: “Love can only love me back.” What else can love do – love is so simple – I only have to chose to open myself up to it.

62. “What I thought to be love, was actually condoning and perpetuating separation, first and foremost, to myself.” I would still be stuck in this way of thinking if I had not had the good fortune to be introduced to the teachings of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. I still have my ‘L’ plates on in relation to my understanding of true love but am loving the journey and loving life, myself and others more and more each day.

63. Everyone deserves to feel loved, the same as everyone deserves to love who they are – it takes some work and some commitment but it’s completely worth it.

64. And a beautiful account of the steps to choose true love again… the effect of which is abundantly clear in the pure joy with which you write.

65. Simply stunning Adele, what a beautiful account of what love is and is not for starters, with all the misconceptions we buy into throughout life that actually lead to nothing but misery.

66. Love is, and has always been, the essential nature of all that surrounds us, is within and without of us, it is in our breath, and in every cell, it is the nature of our true being.

    1. Absolutely Chris, what an absurd game it is to think of it as in short supply or conditional to some behaviour when it is as natural for us to live, as the air we breathe.

67. The deepest and most unwavering support we can ever receive in life, is from our own love. Absolutely Adele, our own love can only love us back.

68. ‘My view on God does not have a Bible to back it up, only my heart.’ Learning the Bible back to front, trying to understand its nuances is a life time’s work, and difficult not to fall into our own interpretations here there and everywhere. Yet knowing our heart is simple – we are already experts, and have a body that is finely tuned to reading its every nuance. Therein lies a deeply rewarding study, no PhD required!

69. I deeply appreciate your honesty in your expression as you explore your experience of what love is Adele. It all comes back to understanding that we are love and can only know it within ourselves first. Beautiful.

70. These words spoke so strongly to me today as they summed up how I existed for so many years, putting everyone else first in the futile pursuit of what I thought was love. “I was feeling and accepting everything about another, before honouring my feelings first, and not standing up to say no to what is not okay, I was actually not loving – neither to myself or to another”. To understand that not only was I hurting myself in this process, but also others, was quite shocking to acknowledge, but when I did it felt so very liberating. To finally understand what love truly is was the catalyst for change in a life that was crying out, not only to know true love, but for change.

71. “When I ran out of options, I decided to give loving myself a try.” It is so interesting that we are not taught to love ourselves as we grow up. yet if we don’t, how can we love another truly?

72. This is so true Adele, so powerfully true… love can only love us back. So we are never alone when we love, and for sure we are held in the love we hold ourselves. This is the best revelation ever, gosh it is so good to return. Again this love was shown to me at first again by Serge Benhayon and Curtis Benhayon, so thank God for their embracing of love.

73. What we ‘think’ is love is not a connection to the true love that we can, if we choose, feel in our inner-heart and from this connection to our own inner-heart feel the love in another.

74. It’s a glorious day the day that anyone first recognizes “How could I ever feel scared or sad or lonely and not loved?” Because they feel the deep love they are and have for themselves and a know that with this everything will be fine.

75. It is so clear in your words Adele, the way these thoughts get us to walk away. They make it seem so reasonable to consider what could happen and the potential downsides that await, to be fearful or apprehensive about what will transpire. Yet in its own strange way these thoughts show us the truth. For when we do the opposite of what they suggest – commit and get closer together, open up and bring more honesty to the table, Love transforms the situation we see, so the problem is no longer a difficulty. Life and everybody suddenly sings beautifully. So one simple choice to disregard thoughts and honour Love, opens the door and the way to a whole heap more in our day.

76. ‘What I thought to be love, was actually condoning and perpetuating separation, first and foremost, to myself.’ Thank you Adele, our thinking mind is lost without our heart and still we can betray ourselves, at least I can by thinking what I am expressing comes from love but underneath there is a frustration that I need to call out for myself for being totally honest with myself and let go of what is hurting me and others and like you say is perpetuating separation.

77. Your heading says it all Adele, ‘love can only love me back’, a beautiful divine two way street. Love is always there waiting for us to enjoin by firstly loving ourselves.

78. Why is it we need to ‘do’ things when we catch up with people? I’ve had a very recent experience of this and ended up hurting myself in the process of doing a strenuous exercise class in the hope to hang out with a loved one. I learnt my lesson big time, as I totally dishonoured and overrode what my body was telling me in favour of fitting in and wanting to be loved. A recipe for disaster really. It’s beautiful to connect to the truth of what I was feeling in that we didn’t need to DO anything – just be with each other.

79. You’ve covered so many areas where we hold ourselves back from expressing who we are out of fear of not being loved. I can certainly relate to many of them! What’s this searching for love thing anyway..? How can we search for something that we are, or need something from someone else that we already are? If we are fearful that others won’t love us, are we just saying that we are missing our own presence of love?

80. It is true, there is a great fear we developed that we won’t be loved. Which is only holding us back to not love ourselves in full, while I can see and feel that when I do love myself, there is nothing else I need.

81. When we are looking for love outside ourselves we can only ever be disappointed but not so when we nurture and cherish the love that we already are.

82. Compared to truly connecting and meeting and being met by others, socialising feels so empty and pointless – simply filling in time pretending to be happy and not being willing to open up to the joy that life truly holds.

83. We created a way of love that is based on attention, so when we don’t get that we don’t feel loved. But in truth we can’t not feel loved because what we originate from is love, and that is always there, so we can choose in every moment to be that.

84. A great point about connection Adele. It does not matter where you go and what you do, connection is in itself, complete, even if another person is fixated on what the doing.

85. How many thoughts we can have about this and that. They can seem reasonable and even kind and ‘loving’. Yet as you show Adele. these things that think we are without, that we need to strive or seek, that we never can live without all come from a place that simply isn’t true or actually us at all. Becuase before all that we are deeply exquisite, intelligent and wise, we are warm and loving open and complete. We are Love me and you at the beginning of the day.

86. This is a little gem of a blog Adele and feeling your playfulness as you share “with a wink that my real job is knowing myself and reflecting that in every part of my life”. Amazing, in reflection I was on the ‘search’ for something, for so many years just knowing there was much more to life than what I was actually ‘trying’ to live. All the time love was staring right back at me but, until Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine came into my life did I realise that ‘love’ was within all the while – just a few layers and some that had been selectively built by choice that limited the flow of expansive love – just waiting to connect and reflect.

87. Interesting that you wrote ‘I thought… Adele”. How often do we let our thoughts over ride what we feel and hence questions what love truly is?

88. Yes me too – what a wonderful expression of love. I felt held too when I read this. And I know this line to be true as I have been lucky enough to be in Adele’s company – “When I meet friends, to me, it is unimportant what we do or where we go, for none of that is necessary for a true connection to happen.”. It took a bit of getting used to as it is a different way to be but I loved it.

89. Thank you Adele for this expansion. You really do shine with appreciation and you are a bright reflection to many woman of someone who lives the delicacy and tenderness that is absolute.

90. Thank you for highlighting this Andrewmooney26, to me it means we have lost our focus or direction and forgetting the most important ingredient in life, our connection to ourselves.

91. I was the same Lorettarapp, and what I realised from searching for love outside of myself for many years is that the love I found never seemed to last, it’s a bit like a mirage. It’s never sustainable or lasting but fades away quite quickly so the search for love starts over again and again until we receive a reflection of true love, the love that is from within, love that emanates out from ones essence. I have recently started to experience this and it is extremely empowering knowing that I too can connect to true love from within myself.

92. I agree Liane very well said. It seems that when we have lost sense of what love is or where it comes from ,we search for it endlessly. Seeking love from outside of us isn’t true love but emotional love.

93. Beautiful blog Adele, ‘Love can only love me back.’ Absolutely brilliant. This reminds me that we often crave to be loved by others but I realise that love first has to come from connecting to it from within ourselves.

94. Adele I love your honesty, we so often get caught looking outside ourselves for love, when we truly know that all the love that we need comes from within ourselves first and can be equally and joyfully shared.

95. Revisiting this blog this line popped out for me today “my real job is knowing myself and reflecting that in every part of my life” and i can feel the truth of that to the bones. It is just my job to know myself in all that I am, and very important, to give expression to that without any holding back.

96. To love, we need to know love, to know love, we need to know ourselves, to know ourselves we need reflections of love truth and light… This is what Serge Benhayon brings to the world.

97. A truthful and insightful blog Adele. With love comes honesty and truth and sadly sometimes this is more than people (at the present time) are prepared to deal with. But it is important as you are doing Adele to stay true to ourselves and not accept anything that is less than love.

98. So many of us have chosen something else other than love and settled for the love we feel we need rather than the love we deserve – I love your line only love can love you back.

99. God is love and only love; very beautiful thank you Adele
    It is true that we can’t truly love another until we love ourselves first; thus our primary responsibility is to deepen our self-love.

100. Sounds like you have found your Soul Adele, that Love within you that is greater than any of the riches of this world

101. You reveal one of the root causes of abuse, Adele. We can not ever not accept. The question is: Do we accept love or do we accept abuse? To accept abuse I first have to disconnect to myself. Whenever I am faced with abuse I check in with myself whether I am connected to my body or not. This keeps me conscious, responsible and in power.

     1. Indeed Felix, we can only accept abuse if we are not with ourselves in the first place, otherwise it would be impossible as in essence we are love to the bone that will not ever allow any ounce of abuse to enter.

102. ‘When I ran out of options, I decided to give loving myself a try. This began as a discipline that introduced more and more gentleness towards myself,…’ So powerful Adele and so very simple. LOVE ones self = LOVE One an-other 🙂 🙂

103. Adele your blog is so beautiful and touched me deeply. I too spent most of my life believing that pleasing another and not creating disturbance was what love was about. Your words ‘What I thought to be love, was actually condoning and perpetuating separation, first and foremost, to myself.’ speak to that behaviour which I’m gradually weeding out from repertoire now that I sit more deeply within myself.

104. Your words lay out Adele the simple fact that the love most of us live with in everyday life, is just an idea, based on many long held beliefs. The Love I know inside myself and see in what you wrote is honest simple and needs nothing from someone else. What comes across strongly too, is its not about words or deeds, but energetically giving yourself the most gentle understanding hug you could ever receive.

105. It’s funny how we think, if I express true love I wont fit in, yet true love is what everyone is looking for.

     1. I know right? And yet true love is a quality emanating from us not a doing. When we emanate the steadiness of true love how can we not fit in? WE ARE IN. 🙂

106. This is gorgeous to read Adele, and this line is a beautiful reminder to take into my day -‘Love can only love me back.’

107. What a beautiful love letter, Adele.
     I could feel real joy in every word you wrote here.
     Thank you.

108. I have felt the joy you are talking about and know the truth of your words. Thank you for making me aware of the importance of clocking and confirming these precious moments to be able to build a supporting foundation of love.

109. Thank you Adele for a great blog, so many things that are not love, when love is all we are, and ” love can only love us back” beautiful words.

110. A very exposing but fantastic blog Adele about how love is perceived in our world, the way many people are searching for love and coming up empty handed and the actual meaning of love. I think many readers could relate to your search and the coming to a realisation that love is inside us all and can’t be created by meeting an image through words or actions towards others. Very powerful and a blog I’m confident I will enjoy re-reading – thank you.

111. This line stood out for me “my real job is knowing myself and reflecting that in every part of my life” and I was like woah yes, so true. That is our real job and then any other job is about bringing this (us) to whatever job is at hand.

     1. Great comment Sarah. This line stood out for me as well. If our real job is about knowing me and reflecting this in life, why is it so hard? Or why do we make it so hard for ourselves? We are with us 24/7 so should we not know ourselves by now?

112. As you so well express Adele we cannot do love we can only be love. So much in life is done in the name of love but is only done through obligation, through social conventions that dictate the time, place and manner of showing love to certain people. There is no time, place, manner or particular people deserving of love. We all are love and expressing it should be the one constant in our life.

     1. Truth. The whole world FEELS it.

113. It opens the lid on a host of ideals that we carry around with us of what it is to be loved, it is not something to do or get – we are love.

     1. Love is a beingness not a doing

        1. So true Joe and something that is profound to feel in ones body.

114. The authority with which you speak on the grand subject of love is felt from the connection you have made to it. To feel this is deeply appreciated, thank you Adele.

115. “Love can only love me back” – I adore these words Adele, and your blog too, showing how lost and lonely we can feel when we are looking for love outside ourselves, and how gorgeous it feels to learn to love ourselves and others without any of the false beliefs.

116. I might be wrong but I don’t think you can be too much love for somebody else, yes they might react but at least they have felt love. If you hold back love nobody feels it so nobody gets to choose it.

     1. If they are reacting they have felt your love and to be able to feel your love they must know what love feels like in their own body. So no you can’t be too much love for somebody as there is no limit to our love.

117. I am so moved by the humanity in this blog Adele. It seems the whole world wants us to be everything but love all the time knowing it is what everyone craves the most. I was so moved when I read, “I knew my heart had not lied to me” this tells me we all know love deeply, even if we just play along and pretend we don’t.

118. I didn’t really understand what Love meant and people’s version of it never made sense to me. Since coming across Universal Medicine I now understand and have felt in my body what Love is. It is a love that is felt for everything and everyone.

119. What I feel deeply now is that what actually keeps me from being love and feeling loved in every single minute and connection to the deep wisdom of my innermost is my mind. My mind is just always busy and sometimes it seems like I am not able to stay in and with my body for just one minute and the mind is somewhere else again, thinking about the past, the future, problems, other people and uncountable other things. What I feel more and more is how huge this game of being caught in our brain is because it seems nearly impossible to step out of our mind-prison.

     1. Our minds are like the radio air waves that transmit music. We pick up anything and everything, and the best radio station is far far away and you can only tune into it on really clear, still days. Just like us and our bodies. When we are clear and still in our body our mind transmits from our heart.

120. I also did not feel loved all my life and I blamed others for that, especially my parents. Thanks to Serge Benhayon I came to deeply embody that it is all about loving myself and not making others responsible for the big lack of self love, self care and self appreciation in me and that really changed my life!

121. ‘My view on God does not have a Bible to back it up, only my heart.’ I love this, so simple, so clear, no complications, God is with us all the time.

122. Absolutely beautiful Adele, I always love reading your blogs and feeling your un-moveable commitment to truth and love, so clear is your commitment that one cannot help but feel how deep and ancient your love is. Thank you for sharing this.

123. Beautifully written Adele, when we are open to our own love, we offer another the space and opportunity to connect to their love too. Although not always expressed back, it is truly felt by the other, giving them a reflection of another way to be.

     1. Yes Sally it is beautifully written and I love what you have added – ” when we are open to our own love”…..we look so much for love outside of us and layer it with SO SO SO much stuff. But there is an option to simply love ourselves or actually, just be the love we already are and let it out.

124. One needs to look no further for a living definition of love then Serge Benhayon… Imagine being loved unconditionally… Knowing that someone knows you more than you know yourself, into every secret crevice and nook inside you, with all the little mental secrets and peccadilloes, imagine then, with all of this still being loved… This is what is possible, and this is my personal experience of what Serge Benhayon is bringing again to the world, and that is unconditional love, so that we can feel that is really divine quality of our own being, and the deep and abiding love of God.

     1. What a stunning comment cjames2012 and one so true. That is what Serge Benhayon brings and offers the world – the trick is to be able to let the love in.

     2. I love that. Serge Benhayon is showing us what it is to love unconditionally so that we can feel that really divine quality of our own being, and the deep and abiding love of God.

125. Your blog is like stumbling upon a treasure chest, Adele. Every paragraph shines out true riches of wisdom and truth. What really got my attention was, ‘how can not living who I am really confirm who I truly am. So what do I choose: do I know or don’t I know who I am? It comes down to an issue of honesty to and for myself.’ A real game-changing profundity because this is what’s at the heart of the choices we grapple with in every moment of every day.

126. Adele your sharing touched my Heart, it is so spot on and beautifully written and I feel inspired by your deep love of self, to open up to the same deep Love in me.

127. Yes it is absurd that loving ourselves is not our first option, great call, Elizabeth. I’m only just starting to really ‘get’ this loving oneself option and I’m loving it all the way! The spaciousness, steadiness and freedom from the old emotions and reactions is priceless.

128. I was just reading your blog again. This paragraph stood out:
     “I thought I would not be loved because I do not work for riches or identity. Although I do have a job or two, and I provide for myself and my son, I can’t help but share with a wink that my real job is knowing myself and reflecting that in every part of my life. Sadly, most don’t share my play-fullness when I tell them that”.
     I love your play-fullness Adele.

129. Just gorgeous Adele, I love the way you express and share yourself with us. Love just loves – yes! and anything other than that is not love no matter how much we convince ourselves in may be otherwise.

130. There can be no greater gift than ‘true’ love and the absolute beauty in that is that the more we give to ourselves the more everyone else receives.

131. Beautiful, Adele! Serge Benhayon teaches that we can’t truly love another until we love ourselves first – wisdom I wish I had learned much earlier in my life.

132. Funny how it is often the last thing we think of trying, to give loving ourselves a go! Same for me and I have never looked back but rather, into the eyes of others to be met by the love that has always been there in each and every one. A beautiful blog Adele.

133. You hold a very deep love for humanity Adele; it is palpable and powerfully felt in this article. Your journey to let go of the ‘pictures’ and ideals of how to express love is incredibly inspiring. Your journey to come back to claim what you knew all along and were bursting to express is beautiful and one I can so resonate with. I now am connecting to the true meaning of true love and claim it everywhere I go, to the best of my ability. And now people are noticing it and sharing that although they might not be able to go there and express in this way too, they wish for me to continue to express as it truly supports them. This is because when we speak with and from true love we speak in a universal language. Inspiring you overcame what came up for you and are prepared to stand out. As someone once shared with me, we have to be prepared to lose everything – once I really understood this it gave me permission to express and live only from true love. With much love to you. x

134. Thank you Adele. I have pondered many of the things you say here about reasons I can’t be loved. But I also know it’s ridiculous. I know the more I step in to being the real me, the less I even worry about being loved or not being loved, because that worry is more about meeting peoples expectations. When I’m being love, I naturally feel loved and it becomes a non issue because it just is.

135. Yes Tim, and that more and more I am understanding that I am that same Love.

136. Adele, reading your blog, I felt the strength and ubiquity of true love and that it always guides us, also, if we are lost in what we have learned and lost in seeking for love on the outside. But there is always a guidance, I felt it from the very beginning through my life like a divine compass, in spite of everything I did, what was absolutely not loving. Now I remember this feeling of being guided and going deeper into it, feeling this is beautifully strong and imperturbable – the compass lets me feel the way back to true love. (Now I am struggling with: “can I write this?” – but I will : ))
     I like the way you write so playful, delicate and wise. Would love to meet you sometime.

137. Choosing to love ourselves in a way that is truly honouring, not selfish at all, is the evolutionary step we can all make, thank you Adele for writing so clearly. There is no looking back with this choice.

138. Sometimes just taking a chance and seeing what it could possibly be to be love with ourselves and others is the only way forward.

     For as we justify to take it one step at a time we are subtly calculating to never take that final leap.

     1. That is a very good point 1heart1love1earth. What if we were too timid to go to love because our definition was actually wrong? Because, as we know, once love is felt we don’t want to go back.

139. Yes for me the same Mary Louise, and still there are bit’s and pieces to unpick where beliefs and ideals have been hiding in corners and crevices, but the basic feeling of true love that is within me is always there and no matter what I encounter in life, this is something I can always come back to and know I am absolutely fine.

140. Thank you Adele. Just reading the title of your blog inspired me this morning. I know this is true for even putting a spoon back in a drawer when I am full of love when I reach for that spoon again it feels good. A great reminder to stay with me and stay in love.

141. You have hit so many nails on so many heads here Adele about what Love is thought to be and what Love truly is. It is beautiful to feel how you have claimed the truth about Love and embrace it now in full.

142. Adele, I can very much relate to what you have written, looking for love only to realise that we all have it inside of ourselves.

143. The way we search for love outside of ourselves seems ridiculous now that I have taken responsibility to build my connection to it inside

144. Great blog Adele.

145. Adele this is a gorgeous and inspiring post. It is so true what you have shared. As soon as we have an idea about what love is or should look like we are in separation to what true Love is and truly feels like. And yes, this hurts everyone as the presence of true Love is absent, in comparison to the blessing we all receive when we, firstly, are with our Love. Thank you for reflecting that true Love is the Love that we all are within our hearts.

146. Thank you Adele for such a beautiful blog, as I am writing this I am smiling, in the knowingness that love can only love me back.

147. A beautiful blog Adele. There is a lot to ponder, but an aspect that resonates with me is ‘Love can only Love me back’, and the more we love ourselves the more love is reflected back to us.

148. I love this Leigh … Loving ourselves is Super Natural ❤️

149. Isn’t is strange Adele how when we run out of options we give love a try? We dodge and weave the one simple ingredient that will change everything. A beautiful blog thank you ✨

150. Love can only Love me back – I loved reading this, Adele. It’s funny how we can get hung up on what people will and won’t accept if we develop love for ourselves and the notions that we won’t fit in or stand out. I’m actually just starting to get that it doesn’t matter what others have to say, as long as I know who I am and continue to develop a relationship with myself, all those worries disappear and seem quite silly now.

151. It is fascinating how so many people will stand and defend something as being love and yet similar to what you were feeling – the love they speak of and ‘do’ is abusive or hurts another. It is like they have lost the true connection to love from being fooled into believing, like we all have been, that it something that is outside of ourselves. It is beautiful that you have found the truth of what love is within yourself and from the deep love you feel there, share this with others.

152. Beautifully expressed Adele, ‘love can only love me back’ – what an awesome reminder that everything begins with our connection and love to ourselves first, then love is reflected back to us. What an inspiring blog and a great way to start my day – thank you.

153. You are the love of my heart Adele, your beautiful expression emanates so much love and your vunerability makes you so strong. Amazing!

154. I smiled to Adele, thank you for sharing your beautiful and inspirational story.
     The message you present is very wise and insightful.

155. We can find many reasons why we might fear not being loved by others. In that mindset, when we act out of that fear, we never connect to love -we feel lucky when it happens but there is no real surrender to it. The mistrust never goes away.

156. There is so much ease in giving yourself what you ” need”, instead of searching on the outside and with no chance of being ever satisfied. Loving myself first is the key for everything for me…

157. Beautiful Adele. For so long I’ve thought this way too- that I won’t be loved and accepted because how I am is pretty different to how everyone else is. What I have come to realise is that I love this way, and the more I love it and love myself, the more other people love it too. There is nothing easier or simpler then being around someone who lives love.

158. I love the way you write Adele, and I love how your blog shows all the interpretations that we think or are taught to be love. I know I have been tricked into thinking certain words or actions meant love, but now that I am learning to truly love myself I can feel what is love and what is not. Still a work in progress and there is always more to learn!

159. Simply gorgeous and exactly what I needed to hear today. We are all deeply loving beings but we can’t feel the truth of that if we don’t love ourselves first.

160. Thank you Adele for this sharing ,love can only love me back, love meets love in love or love always returns to love- love it.

161. “Love can only love me back” is everything in a nutshell except its bigger than a nutshell because it’s everything! Thank you Adele – so simple.

162. Loved reading your blog Adele. I also felt like you that I would not be loved if I would simply be me in the world yet that is the biggest lie. If I am me and love and care for myself I can see how love is always there to start in my own heart.

163. Adele, I so enjoyed reading your blog and appreciated the depth of caring that I felt in the commencement of each of your paragraphs “I thought I would not be loved because…….”.
     How awesome and beautiful you are – I could feel the sensitivity of your being love while trying to fit into a world that chose not to reflect that. How glorious it is to have been shown that we do not need to prove that we are love – but rather just to be that. I thank Serge Benhayon and the presentations of Universal Medicine for showing us that there is another way by just being the love that we truly are.

164. Thank you Adele, this moved me deeply. Love can only love us back, if we choose to embrace it. I really love your play-fullness about your ‘real job’ – “I can’t help but share with a wink that my real job is knowing myself and reflecting that in every part of my life”. What a reflection that must be.

165. This is a great blog to ponder on Adele, I love how you have made it so clear as it naturally should be.
     “God is Love and Only Love” – this is a truth which exposes the lie of those religions that propose that you can fight and kill others in the name of God. That is not love and thus not true religion.
     We are the sons of God and so we too are Love. When we know we are Love we cannot hurt, or harm or kill another.

166. Thank you Adele, what a joy to read your blog. I am learning about love every day and the great thing is that every day I feel more love for myself. This is where it starts, this is where I return to every day, this is me. I am love and from there, I can share this love with others.

167. Adele thank you for sharing: deepening your connection and loving yourself first from the inside out. You pinpoint some great areas that come up regarding who we feel we should or need to be in life to be loved. It’s so un-true and as you say the more we comply to these beliefs the further we take ourselves away from our own true love.

168. It’s funny how we do not chose to simply love ourselves fist when searching for love, but instead we search for anything but this simple loving way.

169. What an amazing blog, Adele, it shows to what degree the world is totally upside-down. Thank you for inspiring everybody to turn it around and understand love from within for everyone to feel. Much needed in society.

170. Adele,
     It is so true, when we love ourselves, we get love back.

171. Thank you Adele, ” love can only love me back” – so true, as the more I learn, and commit, to care for myself in a more gentle and loving way, the more the same comes back to me in the same quality, no matter what. It just is!

172. This is beautiful to read, Adele, I felt the definiteness of your love towards yourself in this. There’s such harmony in not requiring or needing anything from others – to just be full and self -content.

173. Such a beautiful article Adele – when you say “My real job is knowing myself and reflecting that in every part of my life” – a beautiful unfolding of who we truly are, and allowing others to feel that too.

174. Adele I love your blog and how it echoes the loneliness we can feel until we realise we are the very love we are seeking, and begin to honour and nurture that love and wisdom within us.

175. I am inspired by your blog Adele. You had the answers about love with you the whole time. When you looked within, instead of expecting to get it from outside yourself. Awesome!

176. That was a very cool blog! Self love is really really important, aswell as just that simple time for yourself.

177. Thank you Adele. Yes, it is truly a glorious moment when we realise that there is no greater love, ‘out there’, that is more than the love you have towards yourself. It’s such a golden life lesson to feel.

178. Thank you for this beautiful blog, the way you share how you and a lot of people expected love to be, and how we expect to be loved or not be loved. It is just a beautiful thing, love, its something we don’t need to be asking or waiting for until anyone gives it to us but it is something that always will be there and will never leave us.

179. Adele your life “God is Love and Only Love” puts a stop to so much in the world that is not true. It puts a stop to all the guilt and all the shame. It lets me reflect on what if that was true – then if I am a son of God, which I am, I am also love. Thank you.

     1. Beautifully expressed David. ‘ It puts a stop to all the guilt and all the shame. It lets me reflect on what if that was true – then if I am a son of God, which I am, I am also love’ the simple and powerful truth of who we are. Sweeping away any doubts and fears that we entertain.

180. Beautiful Adele, this is an inspiration to read for so many who are caught in an imprisoning construct of what we need to ‘do’ to ‘win’ or ‘earn’ love. Cultures and nations have been built on this false belief. As I was reading your blog I felt you like an incredibly strong yet delicate flower amidst a barren land that has disconnected from the grace and beauty it naturally comes from, just like you and me. In standing firm in your beauty, strength and grace you offer that constant reflection that true love can only be found within.

181. Thank you Adele, you have inspired me to ponder why I feel I will not be loved as I can feel that this belief does still sit inside me somewhere. How awesome to know that I do not have to accept such thoughts.

182. I love the way you have pondered on love and how you have made it something you feel for yourself first – and really, where else should it be coming from? Isn’t it rather irresponsible to expect that the outside world is going to provide it for us?

183. Your blog made me smile Adele, as it is true that loving ourselves is too often a last resort, when it could be a first choice. Thank you for your honesty, and thank you to Serge Benhayon for showing us a way that is true love.

184. Awesome blog Adele, I loved this:

     “So what do I choose: Do I know or don’t I know who I am? It comes down to an issue of honesty to and for myself”.

     Thank you for your glorious reflection of living love 🙂

185. Lovely realisation to come to – that love can only love you back.

     That also means that in your conversations, if you are expressing from a place of love you will feel the love back in your body regardless of how people respond, it’s likely they will also appreciate it.

186. Brilliant blog which is packed full of things to ponder. For today it has left me contemplating how, as with what we are taught about God, the version of love we are sold almost guarantees that we will give up on it, for it will inevitably fall short of itself, and cause us hurt at some stage, how can it not, because as Adele shows us, there is no real love in the version of love that we are all fed.

187. Wow Adele this is so beautiful and what an amazing reflection and light you shine by living your truth.

188. Wow this is so lovely to read Adele, ‘At that moment, I smiled, and thought: How could I ever feel scared or sad or lonely and not loved?’ Very beautiful and inspiring, thank you.

189. Beautiful Adele how love is not something we have to get from another, but how we can be it ourselves and share from there. What wealth, richness and amazing connection ‘being love’ brings.

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191. Thank you for sharing this Adele. i can relate to so much. “Love can only love me back” So true.

192. This is beautiful Adel. Yes we stand out like a sore thumb when we do not ‘fit in’ to the way others conduct their lives. We know our own truth within us and can Love ourselves deeply, and therefore not be reliant on what others do or think. This can seem odd in a world where people do not honour themselves in this way. Thank you for sharing and giving us a lovely example.

193. I have been re-reading your blog again today – the simplicity and truth in it touches me deeply. Thank you.

194. Thank you Adele. This article shows how we search everywhere around us for love and are constantly disappointed. When we allow ourselves to feel our love, God’s love, within us we discover love is everywhere around us just waiting for us to feel it.

195. Thank you, Adele. I can really feel the power of the moment when you turned your life around – “I decided to give loving myself a try”. This is really inspiring, and a story very worth sharing.

196. So much wisdom here, Adele – and an honest account of what I’ve experienced too. Thinking I wouldn’t be loved because of all these different factors outside myself, living in a way that wasn’t supportive and then blaming everything else for this feeling of emptiness. When all the while, turning to love myself and take care of myself was what I had been missing.

197. Thank you Adele for this beautiful reflection, God is Love and only Love, as you have written, and we know it all inside ourselves and are learning to live it in the world

198. Adele I love re-reading your blog, there is always something more to be aware of from it.
     With experiencing some resistance within myself recently, your final paragraph is a great reminder to come back to basics and be open to love again. Thank you.
     “When I ran out of options, I decided to give loving myself a try. This began as a discipline that introduced more and more gentleness towards myself, and rather than holding on to right or wrong, I began to feel from my body and listened to it. Until one day, this love that I have been practising and opening myself to, has allowed me to feel so truly loved, and this love is no different from the love I share every time I love someone else deeply.”

199. It is amazing that as soon as you take out the thinking and remove the head all that is left is the heart… it has always been there waiting for us to just be. Great blog Adele.

200. It is amazing that as soon as you take out the thinking and remove the head all that is left is the heart… it has always been there waiting for us to just be. great blog

201. Thank you Adele for your wonderfully comprehensive review of your social situation resulting from your espousal of Universal Medicine’s teachings. You clearly identify many areas where you appear to be ‘swimming against the tide’, but you illustrate beautifully the shallow and transient nature of your family’s behaviour, and how your refusal to ‘follow the herd’ results in you being regarded as something of a social ‘pariah’. Your journey of discovery to find love, seems to have reached a true development however, which must put all your previous worries truly into perspective!

202. Adele, this is really gorgeous, I enjoyed your honesty most of all.

203. Adele, by you standing strong in your commitment to what you knew was true love among a culture around you that was in direct opposition to this, I feel that you must be making a huge difference to everyone you’re in contact with. Even if there are no obvious changes in those people you have relationships with, your constant reflection of love to them offers a choice for them to accept the same in themselves, and that is huge.

204. Thank you for an amazing blog, Adele. It resonates in me deeply as I live in a part of the world where I could feel a bit of an alien, I could feel not fitting in and I could feel lonely because of the way I choose to live my life. But I don’t. Once you reconnect to who you are, choose a deeply self-caring, self-loving and self-appreciating rhythm, it doesn’t matter. We are a reflection for all to see that life can be lived differently.

205. Top blog Adele. I loved how you said you were loved when you were weak but when you started to live who you truly were there was resistance. Isn’t it strange we live in a world where if we start to express our true selves other people freak out and can’t deal with it. Its great that you have had the strength to honour your commitment to yourself, thank you for sharing.

206. Beautiful, thank you Adele.

207. Wow Adele this is so beautiful. The love that pours forth from your expression in all of your posts and pictures illustrates that love is indeed loving you back. Exquisite.

208. Wow Adele what a beautiful blog. I love how you have come to know and love yourself and share that with the world.

209. I thought this stuck out to me in particular. So often I have thought of ‘being love’ rather than coming out from my head to actually BE love. I can think how to be love and all that entails but without actually feeling that love within me everything I try do to be that love I am expecting will always fall short of the mark. ‘Being love’ is not a thought, it is a feeling. And as you said brilliantly ”how can not living who I am really confirm who I truly am.”

     1. Thanks Leigh, I really get what you’re saying, so often I try to think I’m being love, instead of just being love.

210. Your commitment to yourself and love shines through here, Adele, and I can feel what an amazing reflection you bring to everyone you meet each day. Thank you for sharing.

211. Adele, thank you for giving us a sense of your world in Hong Kong growing up. It is inspiring to feel how you kept harking back to truth and did not conform to the social norms, and over the years developed a deep love and honouring of yourself.

212. Thank you Adele this is exactly what I needed to read right now. There are many gems for me to reflect on.

213. Hi Adele, I love this blog, so playful, I have always felt a bit of an alien, and tried to fit in by being what I felt other people were most comfortable with. But as I am learning now, I can only ever be myself, so now my ‘job’ is being all of me in everything I do, no matter what i’m doing.

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215. Adele, what you have shared is so amazing. You expressed it so clearly and perfectly. Thank you! I could particularly relate to “I can’t help but share with a wink that my real job is knowing myself and reflecting that in every part of my life. Sadly, most don’t share my play-fullness when I tell them that.” I feel like that is my real job now. It just makes so much sense what you have shared. I often wonder what people would say if, when they ask what I have been up to, I replied “Just practicing being with myself”. It is so awesome you have the courage to be open and fun with your expression. Very inspiring. Thanks again.

216. Wow. Thank you Adele. ❤

217. Adele this is so awesome. Thank you <3.

218. This is beautifully expressed Adele – I also had a very wide smile when reading it. Thank you.

219. Your words are deeply touching. I love the last paragraph, it is amazing that if we are open to it, the answers we previously searched high and low for are already within us and have always been there waiting. Thank you Adele…

220. Thank you for communicating with so much love for humanity. I will be re reading this article often.

221. Adele, this post is truly inspiring and full of love. Thank you for sharing.

222. Wow! Speechless!

223. Superbly expressed – thank you Adele. I love feeling that it is no different for you in Hong Kong than it was for me growing up in Switzerland or now living in Australia – all of humanity feels the same deep inside – we do know what true love is and all we have to do is reconnect.

     1. Beautiful point Desiree, We are all dealing with and feeling the same things, all of us…and it’s about love in the end, for all of us.

224. Adobe, this is a beautiful post… So many reasons NOT to be love and so simple when it is all we choose. Thank you.

225. Thank you Adele, I always love reading your posts. This paragraph particularly resonates with me: “I thought I would not be loved, if I spoke what I was truly feeling especially in relation to abuse I could feel. I was feeling and accepting everything about another, before honouring my feelings first, and not standing up to say no to what is not okay, I was actually not loving – neither to myself or to another.”

     In the past I used to think I was being loving or at least being ‘nice’ when I made excuses for another and in those days I never even considered honouring myself. I now understand that by not saying “no” to what is not ok, I am actually saying “yes” to the harm. This sort of ‘reasonable’ and ‘nice’ ingrained behaviour is very strong in me, but as I become more aware of the insidious harm it causes to everyone concerned, I am freeing myself from it.

226. Beautifully expressed Adele – wow… I love this quote: “I was ‘loved’ when I was weak. And whenever I began living who I truly am, the questioning and resistance, especially from those close to me grew.” I can absolutely relate to this.

     To realise that we truly love (ourselves & others), ONLY when we live true to who we are – is so powerful. I thank you deeply for your sharing on so many facets of this, in the face of what is ‘accepted’ by others, and what is not.

     The essence of you feels so strong in love. It is an absolute blessing.

     1. Yes, Victoria, ‘ that we truly love (ourselves & others), ONLY when we live true to who we are’ is a powerful understanding.

227. The story told here is real. When considering the cultural aspects it becomes not only real but truly amazing. In just one aspect – for example to say you want to go to bed early anywhere in Asia is almost blasphemy. Thank you for sharing your awesome commitment to what you feel is true (in spite of society all around you saying it is not).

228. You have given me so much to deeply ponder here Adele. Thank you for your beautiful and simple expression and reflection.

229. I admire your courage and how you have forged a new path in your home country where love is not lived in the same way… for now.

     You will give so many a refection for them to consider, perhaps there is another way?

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