10 Quotes Proving Love + Fireworks Are Kinda the Same Thing

Our country’s history is held together by passion and courage. Let’s honor those ideals by opening our hearts to passion, and letting the fireworks begin.

Just as important as celebrating our nation’s independence, let’s also celebrate our own this 4th of July. It’s easy to take for granted the awesome freedom we have in choosing our own path in life. With this freedom comes the weight of the fact that our lives are completely up to us.

But this weight can be lessened. It can be lessened through cultivating a mindfulness practice, which ultimately allows us to hone our passions, our life-purpose and even our relationships to a powerful one-pointedness. After all, it is independence that gives us the ability to decide to be mindful in the first place. By being aware of the interconnectivity of our choices, we pull ourselves back from the brink of negligence and blame.

Perhaps you just got into a relationship so special that it has freed you to reveal a more authentic self, truer than you’ve ever known. Revel in this new, brilliant discovery that is taking you to places in yourself you’ve never realized existed. The best partners can help free your mind by exposing your current limitations.

Or maybe you’ve come to the end of a romance, and you’re celebrating reconnecting with the strength of your own independent self. While you enjoy this newfound power in your life think about how you show up in the world. Is the energy you bring to your day the energy you’d hope to encounter? Once you decide to start dipping your toes in the dating pool again, channel that mindset into your dating world as well.

Talking about fireworks and dating is an old cliché, but a good one. Some of us may have forgotten that crackling, bursting-with-freshness feeling we experience the first time we connect with someone on the deepest levels, but the fireworks don’t have to stop after this phase wears off. Letting mindfulness course through our relationships will invigorate and multiply the happiness, awe and surprise that comes on even the most mundane of days. When you’re with a partner who freely returns this mindful energy to you, love will be found around every corner, in even the smallest of gestures.