The Mahdi Times The Mahdi Times, Issue #27, February 2015 | Page 39

To allow yourself to be loved in this way a part of you must die. Everything you thought you weren’t must be surrendered. You must let go of the stories of the unlovable one, the awakened one, the special one, the imperfect one, and the despairing one. Love wishes to reveal your nakedness, to remove your clothing, and to burn away all that is false and less than whole within you. What you are is a raging firestorm of creativity, sensuality, openness, warmth and kindness. Love will never stop until you know this. If you will allow her or him, the beloved will show you the infinite ways that your heart is at risk of breaking open in any moment and never, ever being put back together again. She will plead with you to let it all go, to fall on the ground and to allow yourself to fall apart, so she can show you that you were never, ever together to begin with. She will reveal to you that this raw, tender, vulnerable open heart that you feel beating inside you – right here and right now – that this is your gift to the world.