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Self-Love Brings Fullness to an Empty Heart

“In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.” Antonio Porchia There is great truth to Antonio Porchia’s observation. A full heart is a heart graced with love. It is a heart that has learned how to expand with each and every breath. It is constantly opening, growing and welcoming for its essence is layered with love. Love is ever expansive. There’s no containing love and so a loving heart must constantly breathe and open to all new opportunities to love. A full heart has enough love to stretch around the world; enough love to share with anyone who needs a smile or a hand to hold, even for just a little while. But an empty heart is a love-less, abandoned place. It’s filled with silent screams. It screamed each time love left and the echoes of those screams continually ring through its hollowness. It screamed when mom and dad’s love left, it screamed when God’s love seemingly left, and it screamed and wailed the loud...