By Paulo Coelho
That is what infatuation is: the creation of an image of someone, without advising that someone as to what the image is… But it was different from love. Love was worth everything, and couldn’t be exchanged for anything.
(The Valkyries)
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you have a point there…love is worth fighting for
I needed to share a passage from the book of wisdom after reading this blogpost.
But unhappy are they, and their hope is among the dead, who have called gods the works of the hand of men, gold and silver, the inventions of art, and the resemblances of beasts, or an unprofitable stone the work of an ancient hand.
11 Or if an artist, a carpenter, hath cut down a tree proper for his use in the wood, and skilfully taken off all the bark thereof, and with his art, diligently formeth a vessel profitable for the common uses of life,
12 And useth the chips of his work to dress his meat:
13 And taking what was left thereof, which is good for nothing, being a crooked piece of wood, and full of knots, carveth it diligently when he hath nothing else to do, and by the skill of his art fashioneth it, and maketh it like the image of a man:
14 Or the resemblance of some beast, laying it over with vermilion, and painting it red, and covering every spot that is in it:
15 And maketh a convenient dwelling place for it, and setting it in a wall, and fastening it with iron, 16 Providing for it, lest it should fall, knowing that it is unable to help itself: for it is an image, and hath need of help.
17 And then maketh prayer to it, enquiring concerning his substance, and his children, or his marriage. And he is not ashamed to speak to that which hath no life:
18 And for health he maketh supplication to the weak, and for life prayeth to that which is dead, and for help calleth upon that which is unprofitable:
19 And for a good journey he petitioneth him that cannot walk: and for getting, and for working, and for the event of all things he asketh him that is unable to do any thing.
Love
All Ways
Hildegarde
Would flowers be so beautiful,
if not..
for the sun?
Would love mean anything,
if not…
for the other man?
love
Agnieszka
Sometimes we reflect on other persons our thoughts. We ‘dress’ them with the virtues of the world.. Our fantasy paints them with all the colours of the rainbow. We see them as Suns and we adore them..But they are only ..Moons. They are ..reflections..The only true Love is the one that comes from our Souls for their Souls, LIGHT into LIGHT reaching our source, the Farher.
LOVE,
Thelma
Amazing commenst today so I thought I would add one.
A quote from the The Prophet by Kahalil Gibran
‘When you love you should not say ‘God is in my heart’ but rather’ I am in the heart of God’. And think not that you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
Thelma - I think your comment is as real as it gets - super words!
Kind regards
John
yes, infatuation and love are not the same. when you love, you shouldn’t set rules or expectations. you just simply love the person. :)
Infatuation disappears, though love stays…