courageous love, conscious love

When a couple with a karmic love connection part ways, it is seldom the courageous one who fled. It is the coward that flees.   For some, cowards, when they meet a powerful love connection, they choose from their fears and abandon their beloved from fear. Conscious, whole loving shines a light on our darkness and the coward flees that light, flees being seen. Yet being really seen is the gift of love and worth any risk. And it is, ultimately, no risk, to be vulnerable to one's beloved. Some people can't handle having their dark places known by their beloved. Real intimacy, or conscious loving,  requires real presence, and if someone isn’t ready to be truly here on an individual level, they will find it very difficult to manage all the triggers that come up in connection. 

Only the brave can remain open to the light, and darkness revealed, of love.