How do i learn to love and trust?

Following question was asked by reader, Michelle at Paulo's blog, Here is what Mybheja has to say in response.

Q)I love the idea of love and would love to experience it,however i don’t open up to people, that is the reason i don’t have a single close friend. But don’t know how i will be able to love without opening up and trusting.How do i learn to love and trust?

A)You said, you are not open but why not? By putting “not” and “no” in every response, you are being fearful to your own self. Don’t be. Mistakes we all do and there is no point on being fearful about anything at all.

Once there was a small child named, Stefan. He was just five years old. He was learning about fire, wind, sky and stars. He once asked his mother, “Mom, what will happen if I will touch that fire?” she said, “No, don’t touch it. It will burn your fingers…” Stefan got the lesson from his mother. But, He wanted to experience himself. He did not trusted his own mother. One day, where there was no one in Stefan’s house, He went near the fire and tried to touch it. Just after he touched the fire, he took it out his hand away from the fire, immediately. Next time, he became fearful and started to trust what his mother has told.

Moral of the story: Take it away ! (Interpret on your own life, yourself…)

Trust starts with truth and ends with truth. There is no perfect human beings and even those who we pray such as Allah, Jesus, Krishna among others were not perfect. Nobody was perfect and nobody will be. Only thing that remains is, keep on doing mistakes. More mistakes more lesson in life. Those lessons will be useful for you to teach when you, yourself will become grandmothers and wife.

-”Trust yourself, you will start to trust others.”

-”Speak truth and believe in the power of truth, the more you will believe in yourself, the more you will see the beauty of nature and mother earth.”

-”We humans do thousand and one thing to impress others and show to the world that we are smart and wise but we tend to forget one very simple thing, there is small child in each one of us which is hungry for our own trust and inspirations.”

-”Have you ever seen the stars in the night? See them closely, they will tell you, how to be open, how to love and how to shine and twinkle without any differences and jealousy of other stars.”

-”Open up and wake up with blazing beauty just remember no one is perfect and you are the most beautiful creature on this planet.”

God blesses you !

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God bless you all !