Love

The universe is what it is and while I might not really understand it, I do know that it cannot be anything more or less than that.

The laws of nature are unyielding. Certain things are necessities. Others are a choice. You can't change the first, but you can screw up the latter.

Be what you are and accept others for what they are. Not what you want them to be, or think they might be, and especially not just what you expect them to be. In any given moment love demands that you accept. Preferably without judgement, but if that is impossible at least acknowledge that it is what it is.

Less than that is not love.

It is fulfilling your own needs.

People don't want to believe that. They want to invent fairy tales about the people around them, make them grander than they are, or worse, but that's impossible. People are who they are.

Anything else is all in your head.

And I don't want to live in your head.