Love Everyone. Trust No One.

1 month ago

Love everyone. Trust no one. These two ideas seem to fight each other. They do not. One is your heart. The other is your sword. We lose both when we separate them. We are taught that love means giving everything. It does not. Love means seeing others as real. But reality has a ground, a substratum beneath all giving and taking. That ground is your own being. If you pour yourself out for everyone, you have nothing left to give. Trust is not the same as love. Trust is earned. Love is not. We can love a stranger and still lock our door at night. We can feed the hungry and still say no to the one who drains us. That is not coldness. That is honesty. The mind wants to make love into weakness. Reality does not. Reality says keep your sword sharp. Say yes to kindness. Say no to what breaks you.