This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 2630, the key to loving yourself, other people, and

life by Christina Loeb's with tinybuda.com and I'm Justin Malik, your very own personal

narrator and we jump right into another post and start optimizing your life.

The key to loving yourself, other people, and life by Christina Loeb's with tinybuda.com.

Has ever occurred to you that you can only love when you are alone?

Anthony D'Amello. I'll sit in my therapist's waiting room when I looked over at an assortment

of books sitting on the coffee table. One caught my attention right away. The way to love

by Anthony D'Amello. This looks like something I should read right about now, I giggled a little

with that thought. I was after all sitting in a psychotherapist's waiting room because

he was the only thing keeping me from a nervous breakdown. My marriage was falling apart

and my felt so utterly lost. Perhaps a book about love would help me navigate this painful

period of my life. I finished my session and hurried home to my iPad. Within seconds, the

book came alive on my screen. I proved the chapters at first, but stopped dead in my tracks

on page 137. Quote, Has it ever occurred to you that you can only love when you are alone?

Has it ever mean to love? It means to see a person, a thing, a situation as it really

is and not as you imagine it to be. And to give it the response, it deserves. You cannot

love what you do not even see. End quote. This makes no sense at all. How can I love only

when I am alone? I put the book down. I had no idea what D'Amello was saying, but that

first sentence stayed in my mind and heart. Then came some alone time. A lot of it. For

the next two years, I lived in solitude. My days were filled with meditation, long hikes

in nature, writing, introspection, and at times, a deep loneliness. I accepted all that

life was bringing me. I embraced the hours upon hours of silence and no human contact.

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