{"id":3894,"date":"2015-02-11T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/?p=3894"},"modified":"2015-02-07T21:38:51","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T02:38:51","slug":"love-will-give-you-everything-you-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/2015\/02\/love-will-give-you-everything-you-need.html","title":{"rendered":"Love Will Give You Everything You Need"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question:<\/strong> So if a person feels &#8220;I have no love in my life,&#8221; if that person would even have a sincere wish to know love, would that be the beginning of true love?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answer:<\/strong> You can build a fire in the winter, and if you come back after it has been out for a long time, if you stir those ashes, there&#8217;s always a little spark in there. I don&#8217;t care who you are, how dead the heart feels. If you can feel that the heart is dead, it&#8217;s still alive. And if it&#8217;s still alive, that means it can be re-inflamed. But it&#8217;s work. Love will give you everything that you need &#8212; that which draws you to it will also give you what you need to succeed with that relationship &#8212; but you have to be willing to approach it. You have to give up what is un-loving &#8212; that sense of self that you cling to about how you\u2019ve been denied something or didn&#8217;t get your fair shake. It can be changed if you want it to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: So if a person feels &#8220;I have no love in my life,&#8221; if that person would even have a sincere wish to know love, would that be the beginning of true love? 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