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Giving opens the way for receiving.
Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
If it's a really good gift, I love receiving it, like jewels, small islands.
I'm now so much more capable of receiving love and giving it in a far different way.
The only method of receiving love is to give love, because what we give out must come back.
It always boils down to the same thing - not only receiving love, but desperately needing to give it.
The great paradox is that our lack of faith in love and miracles is what blocks us from receiving love and miracles.
And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it.
I enjoy receiving love from my wife. I'm ecstatic when Kim loves me and expresses affection toward me. Something in me comes alive when she does that. But I've learned this freeing truth: I don't need that love, because in Jesus, I receive all the love I need.
People tend to consider beig vulnerable a bad thing. It's not. Vulnerability reminds us that we're human. It keeps us open to giving and receiving love. Without at least a little, we can become someone living n a prison of our own making, where the walls are so thick that no one can get in or out.
I lacked some essential skill for attracting people, for giving and receiving love easily. It meant too much to me. I seemed to be driving away the people I most wanted. Finally I had realized that getting someone to love you was like trying to coax a bird to perch on your finger . . . it wouldn't happen unless you stopped trying so hard.
The fourth doorway is the Doorway of Openness located in our heart center. It has to do with being open to both giving and receiving love. It's not just about being able to give, but it's also about the ability to be open to receive. There's a certain vulnerability in receiving. When we truly take in and appreciate all of the gifts of life, then our hearts are truly open in love.