Britney Spears makes her own runway, I make my own news. All good ends can be worked out by good means. Those that cannot, are bad; and may be counted so at once, and left alone. Whoever offends against the laws of honor in the least instance is treated as the highest delinquent.  Here is no excuse, no pardon; and one doth nothing who leaves anything undone. Because of the nature of attachment, the first state preceding the actual experiencing of loss is that of fear of loss. This is usually defended in one of two ways. One is to increase the intensity of the attachment by ever persistent attempts to strengthen the bonds. This approach is based on the fantasy that the greater the bond, the less likelihood of loss. However, this is the very maneuver that often precipitates loss in person relationships, because the other person struggles to be free of the possessive attachment and the amount of restrictive control they feel being placed upon them. Thus, because what we hold in mind tends to manifest, the fear of a loss can, paradoxically, be the mechanism of bring about that loss. #RyanPhillippe 1 of 6

Our highest state is love, and it all begins with ourselves. When we love ourselves, others will love us. When we respect ourselves, other will respect us. Hope is a charming passion, the only real friend of a human thought. The most precious gift of Heaven, hope. Another way that the fear of loss is handles is by the psychological mechanism of denial. We see this around us every day, many people want to play ostrich, bury their heads in the sand and pretend that they do not see nor hear what is going on around them in an effort of refusing to face the inevitable. All the warning signs are there, but the person does not take heed. Thus, for example, the man who is obviously in the process of losing his job tends not to notice. Death and dying force upon us a certain honesty about life and living. Where truth is lacking in living, truth will be lacking in dying. In fact, life and death appear related: the more life the easier death; the less life the more terrible death. I do not mean these in the physical and literal sense, but rather in the human and figurative sense. In the face of finitude, we find ourselves driven to deal with our work, our worth, our love, our life.  #RyanPhiliipee 2 of 6

What is most terrifying about dying and death is the lack of living connectedness. Without presence, we are without hope; without contact, we are without grounding. So, we find we are required to face what separates the living from the dying. We find we are required to face our own limits and our own end. For we, too, will die. In facing death, we are finding life. And in finding life, we establish a living connectedness. We come closer to one another for mutual gratification and upbuilding. The courage to be is inseparably linked with the courage to be known. The existential demand upon each of us individually has its accompanying interpersonal demand. I can be courageous if I can communicate to a significant other what matters desperately to me. Communication constitutes the core of the doing of being. When I can say to you what I am experiencing, then we have entered into a transforming communion. Distance disappears. Loneliness lessens. Isolation is swallowed up by oneness. As I am known, so I am. #RyanPhillippe 3 of 6

There is no love without a ray of faith and trust. Now is the time. Here is the place. What one person says to another in the face of death counts more intensely than in any other here-and-now. The one who is anticipating the end wants to be heard, aches to be understood, longs to be in touch. There is a heightened awareness that every word matters, each moment counts, every gesture carries special weight. The quality of the connectedness replaces the quantity of the connections. A sense of eternity comes with experiencing being known by another and knowing the other right here and right now. The letters to my father meant so very much to him and there were some things he wanted to say to express the struggle and pain that he felt about losing relationships that were important to him….as I sit here writing this, I think about all the time we spent together and all the car rides and how he probably went home and cried in silence, but was always happy when I saw him. Time is the pacifier of every woe, the qualifier of every disappointment. #RyanPhillippe 4 of 6

Countless times I have had very little courage of my own, and I know that such an attitude is wrong and one certainly should pray about it. Pray for strength and courage and grace to meet whatever proves to be the experience. And that I have done, or I do not see how I could have gotten through these past years. I think worst of all is that no one is dying, but it feels like it when people you love have wronged you. These days sometimes seem unendurable. When one thinks of words to describe them, the words kaleidoscopic hell are the only ones that some to mind. Without prayer, I do not see how I could have endured this. The thing that meant so much to me was your understanding of me enough to know that you could say what you did then—that it looked as though we were heading for a certain crisis, you hoped and prayed it might be for the better, but realized it might be for the worse. The fact that we have been able to show our love and affection for each other is one of the precious things of life. We have faced the ultimate issues of life together. #RyanPhillippe 5 of 6

There is abundant love in the Universe, there is abundant love in me, and I see myself as the eternal soul that I really know I am. I play an important part in the World. Lord, give me guidance to help me see my path. Give me clarity to help me discover my worth. I am a Divine being and I love myself deeply, as I am worthy of love of others. The soul’s life has seasons of its own; periods not found in any calendar, times that years and months will not scan. I call upon the energies of the Sun and Earth to help me find my confidence. You want nothing but patience; or give it a more fascinating name: call it faith. Also, with self-love comes clarity and compassion, two treasured ingredients in magic. Therefore, it is important that we practice self-love, it is a muscle that requires exercise. Time heightened our blessing, and our precious years are like a setting Sun, which gathers fresh splendor, as it gradually vanishes from our sight. #RyanPhillippe 6 of 6