(Dharma) Bread Crumb #3
If you have fear of yourself, only then are you afraid of other people. If, in the pure sense of love, you love yourself, you love others. If you hate yourself, you hate others.
Consider that in relationship with others, it is only you mirrored. The other is nothing but a mirror. Relationships can only magnify that which occurs within you. This is because, in coming into contact with others, the outside world, you can only manifest your being, as it is occurring at the time.
Pure love arises with understanding . . . understanding being the result of learning, inquiry, contemplation, analysis, meditation, and engagement.
-Neither grief or a broken heart, or fear, precludes you from doing this.