Love or Fear

Can you distinguish love from fear?

When you maintain a healthy diet, do you do this because you love your body or because you fear disease?

Many people confuse love with worry, but pre-occupation is fear based, it isn’t based on love. Worry, based on fear, is limiting and destructive.
Love, based on appreciation and wisdom, is expansive and constructive.

Love is wise. If there are no objective dangers, it doesn't imagine and create them, causing limitations to life. If there are objective dangers, then love evaluates them and finds solutions.

I feel that in western society many decisions are being made, collectively and individually, based on fear, and I don’t think that’s a healthy situation.

In the summer of 2020, shortly after the confinement, I had to make a decision I experienced as very difficult. But then I realized my thoughts about choosing either this way or that way were based on fear. The moment I looked at my dilemma from a loving point of view the decision suddenly became natural and easy, and I am still very happy with it.

I hope this makes sense to you and I wish you all loving decisions.

with love,
Annemiek