Rule #3: Understand = Resolve.
Life is a journey but doesn’t come with a travel guide to consult. It doesn’t even come with a map. And nothing that happens to you comes with a user manual.
For that reason, I like to read books with wisdom that endures over the years. Their advice allows me to dodge a few bumps.
In particular, I follow four rules to the letter, which I learned from reading Alan Watts.
I think they can help you a lot, too.
“Love is not meant to take orders.”— Alan Watts.
You cannot force love. You cannot force anyone to love you.
Dependency is not love; it is Stockholm syndrome 🙂
That’s why you must let go of everyone who wants to leave your life. — If you don’t, your unrequited love will turn into resentment.
As Alan Watts said, “When there is no risk, there is no freedom,” and only in freedom can love exist.
Lesson: you have to be willing to lose love to gain it.
“A person is like a slit…