When people feel love, it raises the bar of what they're willing to accept.

At the ultimate level, true love is when you care deeply for somebody else and you want their good.

Love we're talking about is something that unless you've experienced it,

you really don't even have a clue as to what that really means.

It's never based on what you're going to get from someone.

It's never based on how they necessarily make you feel.

It's like the acceptance of who you are, which allows you to be

vulnerable in that space and be you, good, bad, ugly, whatever.

When you are actively pushing yourself to think and act in love towards others from whom

you are not expecting to receive in return anything. You yourself are growing.

And as a matter of fact, it is the most important work for which our soul came into this world.

Welcome to the spiritually hungry podcast, episode 43.

I promise this episode won't be about grief or death, not a lot of tears. I hope

for those of you who join in with us weekly, you're familiar with my father's process. He has now

passed away. And and gosh got lots of thoughts lots of processing but um it's

interesting because we've spoken a lot about how we felt when your parents passed especially

karen who passed eight months ago and um I've shared this with you. I don't

think I've shared it publicly, but she taught me a lot about how to not really fear death. Like I think

before that experience with her and being with her when she transitioned, I avoided death altogether.

The idea of it, the discomfort of it, going close to it.

There were probably still that residue of the thoughts I had about, you know,

things like that being kind of contagious energetically.

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