“To be a success is to love and be loved. The reason people are around lovers is that there is a radiance, a knowing. It is wonderful to feel people in love. Savor every moment.
“Nothing is worth bickering about and losing that sacred treasuredness. Pick your words with love.
“In this society, people have a beautiful union, then they have an argument or two. They haven’t learned how to discuss things in that special kind of love. They shatter each other. Then, they regret it and they rebuild with a lot of patience, love, kindness, and time. They rebuild the vase, but it will never be as beautiful, or as precious, as it was. It may not even hold water.
“Some things cannot be taken back. If you are not going to speak in love and kindness to build a person up, you have no right to destroy them. No matter how upset you are. No matter how right you think your are.
“When something upsets you, you can say, ‘This is who this person is and this is how I am affected by them.’ Then, you can choose to stay with them or to move on.
“Keep your words sweet because you will have to live with them. The greatest hurt is knowing that you hurt your beloved. We can forgive and we can say we forgot, but the words that hit our core, where we are weakest, will shatter us in ways that the person saying them may not even know.
I asked, “How should people choose the person they are going to marry?”
The answer: “Don’t ‘choose,’ feel.
“The biggest mistakes are made when people choose. They choose an educated person, a healthy person, a pleasant person. That is very good. But if there isn’t that love, that heart-spark connection, they will be two very nice people living in peace. That is neither love, nor passion, nor what gives you the spark to create in life.
“Feel.”
Message Channeled through Laurie Hays