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Spring is in the air, and it is time to flirt with love. We love to love. We love to be loved. We seek love. We don’t feel loved. We don’t trust love. We don’t love ourselves. We don’t love others. These are all facets of learning how to love.

Will I be with the man I fell in love with after I die and go to heaven? Was he my soul mate? I always felt that relationship was magical, but he broke my heart.

— Marla, Palo Alto, CA

diiyin’s note: To put it simply, mysterious grace moves in your spirit, as it will. So follow wherever it leads you. Let it be the active force and you the receiver. Feel this mysterious grace sweetly open you more to the fifth-world time dynamic.

I feel as if I were born scared. I have anxiety about being alone and about going anywhere. I stopped driving and have a lack of passion, excitement, and ambition.

I woke up from my nap about an hour ago in a cold sweat, and my heart was racing. In my dream, I had been in a big room that might have been a concert venue, but there was no band. There were lots of people, but I didn’t recognize anyone.

“Hi. My name is Oliver, and this is my story. I live on an exclusive housing estate in Myanmar. Picture, if you will, a gated community with excellent recreational facilities.

With all the changes in the world today, I felt really unsettled and anxious in 2016. Last year, I released many old relationships and even changed jobs. I am wondering what can be seen in my records for 2017.

I’m not very good at expressing myself, and I am not even sure I know exactly what I want to ask. Maybe I am suffering from postpartum depression or just depression, or maybe it’s neither of those. I don’t know how I feel. I just know I should feel different from this.

In this column, you will read inspiring stories from people all over the world who request most benevolent outcomes (MBOs) for themselves and say benevolent prayers (BPs) for others, and they request both out loud.

We have often heard that 90 percent of success is showing up. We might feel it is easy to show up, but do we, really? We might wonder, “Who doesn’t know how to show up?” We appear. We make time, space, and opportunity to show up. What is the big deal? But do we really show up? Are we present?