A Space in the Heart
Love as Spacious Compassion
Love—true love—is not a matter of holding on, but of holding space.
Compassion is not pity, not an act of superiority or sacrifice,
but the quiet, courageous gesture
of making room inside your heart
for someone else to simply exist.
Not as you wish them to be.
Not as they were in some nostalgic past.
Not as an extension of your dreams or your healing.
But just as they are—
angry, radiant, confused, growing, human.
This kind of love requires nothing in return.
It is not transaction.
It is not performance.
It is presence.
It says:
"Here is a space within me where you don’t have to fight for oxygen.
You are welcome to be here.
You are safe to unravel, to rest, to be seen."
This space is the essence of compassion.
A refuge that asks for no masks.
A silent prayer offered in the face of someone’s suffering.
Or their joy.
Or their silence.
When we offer that space to another,
we also expand our own soul—
becoming vast enough to contain contradictions,
to sit with pain without rushing to fix,
to allow love to move through us
like light through a clean window.
And sometimes, the most radical act of love
is giving that space to ourselves.
To whisper inward:
"You too have a right to be here."
"You too are worthy of the heart’s quiet shelter."
Let this be our practice—
not to own love,
but to be the space through which love flows.
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