Showing posts with label Self-Loving Romance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Self-Loving Romance. Show all posts

Monday, February 14, 2022

Post No. 121: For Valentine's Day, Part 10 — Your One True Love Is You!


(Image by Paul Whiting)

Your One True Love Is You!
(Or, "Be The True Love Within Yourself")

The phrase "You Need To Find
True Love" is a fairytale fantasy!
And seeking external validation is an
outer locus of control or, as I call it,
"Outside-Of-Yourselfness." Therefore,
you cannot find "True Love" outside of
yourself, since there is nothing outside
of yourself except for yourself. For, you
are independent in a void forever,
because you are the energy of a void
as a soul, which is why you can only
"Be The True Love Within Yourself."

-Paul Whiting
(a.k.a., A Creative Writer)
"I maybe say too much about how life really is!"

My Writing About Finding True Love Within Yourself, Version No. 1: The phrase "You Need To Find True Love" is a fairytale fantasy! For, you cannot find "True Love" outside of yourself (which is an outer locus of control or, as I call it, "Outside-Of-Yourselfness"), since there is nothing outside of yourself except for yourself (that is, we are independent in a void forever, because we are the energy of a void as souls), which is why you can only "Be The True Love Within Yourself." –Paul Whiting (written January 11th, 2012, revised March 20th, 2015, revised February 14th, 2022, revised August 23rd, 2022 and revised May 24th, 2023)

My Writing About Finding True Love Within Yourself, Version No. 2: The phrase "You Need To Find True Love" is a fairytale fantasy! And seeking external validation is an outer locus of control or, as I call it, "Outside-Of-Yourselfness." Therefore, you cannot find "True Love" outside of yourself, since there is nothing outside of yourself except for yourself. For, you are independent in a void forever, because you are the energy of a void as a soul, which is why you can only "Be The True Love Within Yourself." –Paul Whiting (written January 11th, 2012, revised March 20th, 2015, revised February 14th, 2022, revised August 23rd, 2022 and revised May 24th, 2023)

My Writing Notes:

The reason that I wrote this poem can be summed up with the following statement: "You cannot find 'True Love' outside of yourself, since there is nothing outside of yourself except for yourself, which is why you can only 'Be The True Love Within Yourself.'"

And this poem is based upon a quote from "My Posting Sabbatical, Part 1" that was originally published on my "Small All White in the Forest" and "Poet, Artist and Philosopher" blogs (please see the hyperlinks below for the blogs), since I decided to publish some of "My Posting Sabbatical Writing" as blog posts when I republished my old blog posts on my new "Paul Whiting — A Creative Writer" blog, which I created in order to have "a place to place all of my best writing in one place!"

And this poem was only published on my "Paul Whiting — A Creative Writer" blog.

This poem was written in Portland, Oregon.

-Paulee


This "Paul Whiting — A Creative Writer" Post No. 121 was edited on April 13th, 2024.

"Poetry is using the fewest words possible in order to describe all that is possible to describe." –Paul Whiting [June 1st, 2022]

Post No. 117: For Valentine's Day, Part 6 — Self-Loving Romance


(Image by Paul Whiting*)

Self-Loving Romance
(Or, "True Love is Never Free")

I am practicing "Self-Loving Romance"
as part of my philosophy that
"True Love is Never Free" and
should be paid for through
being in touch with your
feelings, a lot of personal
change and hard work to
make an authentic living,
along with emotional
transparency, prudent
compromise and, of
course, honest money.

-Paul Whiting
(a.k.a., A Creative Writer)
"I maybe say too much about how life really is!"

My Writing About True Love Never Being Free: True Love is never free! For, All Of Creation is based on an economy. Therefore, you have to pay for everything—including True Love—through being in touch with your feelings, a lot of personal change and hard work to make an authentic living, along with emotional transparency, prudent compromise and, of course, honest money. –Paul Whiting (written January 11th, 2012 and revised August 23rd, 2022)

My Writing About Self-Loving Romance: I am practicing "Self-Loving Romance" (for example, buying myself chocolates for Valentine's Day, then taking myself out for a romantic dinner) as part of my philosophy that "True Love is Never Free" and should be paid for through being in touch with your feelings, a lot of personal change and hard work to make an authentic living, along with emotional transparency, prudent compromise and, of course, honest money. –Paul Whiting (written February 14th, 2012 and revised August 23rd, 2022)

My Writing Notes:

The reason that I wrote this poem can be summed up with the following statement: "I am practicing 'Self-Loving Romance' (for example, buying myself chocolates for Valentine's Day, then taking myself out for a romantic dinner!) as part of my philosophy that 'True Love is Never Free.'"

*By the way, the image illustrating this poem is of organic Lake Champlain Chocolates Valentine's Day bars, which I photographed on February 14th, 2014, and that is approximately one year before I became vegan again (for the second time), which was around the end of March 2015, since one of the bars is milk chocolate!

And this poem is based upon a quote from "My Posting Sabbatical, Part 1" that was originally published on my "Small All White in the Forest" and "Poet, Artist and Philosopher" blogs (please see the hyperlinks below for the blogs), since I decided to publish some of "My Posting Sabbatical Writing" as blog posts when I republished my old blog posts on my new "Paul Whiting — A Creative Writer" blog, which I created in order to have "a place to place all of my best writing in one place!"

And this poem was only published on my "Paul Whiting — A Creative Writer" blog.

This poem was written in Portland, Oregon.

-Paulee


This "Paul Whiting — A Creative Writer" Post No. 117 was edited on April 13th, 2024.

"Poetry is using the fewest words possible in order to describe all that is possible to describe." –Paul Whiting [June 1st, 2022]