Returning to Love

There comes a point in life - usually somewhere after we’ve lived enough, lost enough, and learned enough - where we finally look back and see our paths with clearer eyes.

The paths we chose.

The ones we avoided.

The people we held on to - and the ones we let go.

The things we did.

The things we didn’t do.

Life becomes a map of regrets and revelations, all pointing us toward the same truth.

In my work as a shaman, helping guide people back to the spirit world in their final breaths, I see something profound again and again:

Near the end, every soul wants only two things - to resolve their regrets, and to return to love.

Not romantic love.

Not ego-driven love.

Not the kind of love that demands to be needed or completed.

But the pure, unconditional, unwavering love that simply is - the way a parent loves a child, no matter where they’ve been or what they’ve done.

This is the purpose we return for, lifetime after lifetime:

To unravel the blocks that keep us from experiencing and offering that kind of love.

To learn from it.

To remember it.

To live it.

Every choice, every detour, every heartbreak, every “wrong turn” - they all bring us closer to or farther from that truth.

Here’s the hard part - the part most people avoid talking about:

We don’t get to choose the consequences of our past, but we do get to choose whether we remain a victim of it.

We don’t get to rewrite what happened, but we do get to stop letting it decide what happens next.

That’s the warrior’s path.

Choosing to pick up the sword not to fight the world - but to defend the best parts of ourselves.

Choosing to walk forward with an open heart, even when life has given us every reason to close it.

Choosing not to abandon ourselves,

even when others have.

Choosing to keep fighting - not for perfection, but for possibility.

Because our journey isn’t just about feeling love.

It’s about embodying it.

True love is not built on agreement or sameness.

It’s not earned, exchanged, or performed.

True love:

FORGIVES, even when it has reasons not to.

SEES the soul beneath the struggle.

ALLOWS for differences without fear.

UNDERSTANDS, even when it can’t explain.

It’s the love we come from.

It’s the love we return to.

And it’s the love we spend our lives trying to find our way back to.

Everything else - regret, loss, heartbreak, missed opportunities - is part of the journey that leads us there.

You will have regrets.

You will lose people.

You will make choices you wish you could redo.

But none of it means you’ve failed.

All of it means you’re human - and you’re still on the path.

Because the purpose is not to avoid regret or avoid pain.

The purpose is to keep returning to love - to not just seek it, but to become it.