Let Love Live

If you love a flower, don't pick it up.
For if you do, the flower dies and ceases to be what you love.

If you love a flower, let it be.
For love is not about possession, love is an appreciation.

Authenticity

Let yourself be loved, just as you are -
as flawed, as unattractive, and as unaccomplished
or as unworthy as you think you may be.

For the belief that you must hide what is broken
out of fear that another is incapable of loving what is less than perfect,
is to believe that sunlight cannot enter a broken window,
to illuminate a dark room.