Comments on: The third cardinal virtue: Love

By: lucia margarida ferreira

lucia margarida ferreira — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:14:02 +0000

Paulo não consigo definir amor nesse momento da minha vida, amar dói, trás insegurança.
abraços
um lindo dia uma linda noite!!!
lulu

By: Monica

Monica — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:58:33 +0000

I got it….it clicked all of a sudden…..Agape is the love that a mother feels for her children….Oh how wonderful dear Paulo…..

By: Monica

Monica — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:56:41 +0000

Dear Maryon why do you consider being in between Christ and God a trap?

By: lovelovelove

lovelovelove — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:51:15 +0000

In a sense something similar happened with me, among other circumstances. What a horrible feeling to be left for reasons the soul doesn’t even bother with. For my very own conclusion I now understand or have an inclinating feeling that my soulmate, because indeed this person was, left me because he didn’t really love me enough. Someone who absolutley loves you, truly and purely, from the depths of his or her soul would fight to the death for the love of his or her life or soulmate. A soulmate doesn’t see race, or religion, or culture to be a hinderance in a relationship. Or possibly some souls are weaker than others… The idea I believe is to fight for love especially in the face of such injustice, ad never fall prey to those who impose in others lives when they more than likely aren’t any better off. May their be peace and courage in your heart, because your soul already has those.

By: Maryon

Maryon — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:56:12 +0000

Dear Paulo,
is it possible to send me the agape? I’m in a trap with Christ and God.

By: littlemiss-s

littlemiss-s — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:46:10 +0000

and that’s what happened to me.We were going to get married until his family had an issue with my sister’s husband because he was of a different race. They made him choose between his family and the love of his life.He had chose them because he believed they would never let us be happy even though deep in my heart he is probably suffering as much as I am. He is my first thought when I wake up and my last at night.I try to keep myself busy but thoughts/memories of him creep in. How do I move on even when I don’t want to.How do I accept and how can he accept the ignorance of his parents?how is it that family can separate you from your soul mate?

By: Eva

Eva — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:48:01 +0000

hey Savita
thanks soo much
i really like ur definitions

By: Olga

Olga — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:56:07 +0000

Love if the state of being. Love, Happiness and Creativity are synonims. They all represent the state of being, when we are connected to something bigger than we are.It is like entering the realm of the Source and dissolving into it. Openness, abundance, connection to the wholeness – that is how I would describe it with the words (which, of course, are limited).

We usually perceive love as a deep connection to another human being. Yes, it is true – another person can get us into that state of love. I believe that this other person just triggers our own ability to feel That. His/her energy, as enters our field simply resonances with Love that is inside us.

At the same time, Love is bigger than that. I believe we can experience this state of Love on our own, as well. We can access it through Music, books, nature – and those are just some examples, which would vary for individuals, and particular moments of their life.
Learning how to access Love within is another key to self-evolvement. If we learn to do it, we would access the source of healing, well- being, creation, happiness – all within us. Can you even imagine, what our world would become then?

Love is all we are looking for, is the source of all good, and it comes from within.

Love, Olga

By: Chris Marie Dumasis

Chris Marie Dumasis — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:06:11 +0000

Love will always be coupled with sacrifice. For if we only love to be happy with this perfect person, then the truest essence of it~~being unconditional will negate that fact.

By: Ndaambe

Ndaambe — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:15:41 +0000

A meditation on love and its various incarnations
We risk everything for a chance at real love…

Love makes the world go round. Life will never be the same. Until it is. Sort of.

Love isn’t pure after it’s been tainted, cause love can alternatively flip the world upside-down.

Loving couples can fall headlong into possessiveness, jealousy and rage; trapping you in the tangled emotions founded in that space between love and goodbye.

And how do you choose between family and the love of your life? But, why should you have to?

Emotions can be raw and messy, and as relationships change, who gets the better part of the bargain?

Love reflections for anyone with an appetite for love………..

By: Hedia Lina

Hedia Lina — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:34:16 +0000

To quote Mr. Coelho ” Love simply is”

By: Mika

Mika — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:04:59 +0000

Amo ergo sum – I love therefore I am.

I believe love – agape – is the meaning of life. When all love dies in our heart, all the rooms of our soul turn dark. Love is the fuel of life. Love is what brings us faith, love is what gives us hope. Love for humanity, love for life, love for the family. It is what fills us with strength and it is what makes us capable of making a change for the better. In ourselves as well as the world.

By: Roberta

Roberta — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:54:00 +0000

Amor: desejar de verdade a alguem aquilo que lá no fundo vc desejaria somente a si mesmo.

By: mischitine

mischitine — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 08:41:47 +0000

is it allowed to expose one’s personal experience to anyone? (as from your exercises written and publicly revealed at the pilgrimage?) esoteric rituals are strictly not to be told to anyone so casually, as i have been told. with all due respect, i would like to know if you’re actually allowed or have you already been excommunicated. as an apprentice, i’m beginning to wonder whether it is right to read your book, or i shouldn’t because it might alter my belief. it might be an angelic facade of something bad, and be unconsciously misled. please be kind enough to tell. thank you.

By: LEECA

LEECA — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 23:54:57 +0000

Whilst in deep despair last year after the loss of my father, I understood the meaning of agape. I called upon God to explain why I am here… My own mind answered me the God is Love. That is to say, that the entity which we perceive to be God is manifested in Love. The only thing that matters…

By: PeregrinaMom

PeregrinaMom — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 06:44:14 +0000

Estimado Sr. Coelho,

Quiza, la mejor manifestacion en este mundo es el amor de una madre hacia su hijo/a. Lo da todo, arriesga todo, no espera nada para si mas la sonrisa de felicidad y satisfaccion del hijo/a. Digamelo a mi… y cuando creo que no puedo amarles mas, me despierto la manana siguiente, amandoles aun mas.

Love…….. always and in ALL ways.

By: Savita Vega

Savita Vega — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 03:59:58 +0000

A few of my favorite definitions, collected over the years:

“There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear….
the one who fears is not made perfect in love.”
–1 John 4:18

“If we can be brave in love, we can be brave with most other endeavors. Wholeness in life comes from this Courage to Love, and all the wonders and difficulties we experience in Love.”
Shelly Durrell
Healing the Fisher King

“To fall in love means that one must submit, however temporarily…to a state of being not subject to control or governance.”
Chela Sandoval
Methodology of the Oppressed

This last is my favorite, as it explains, I think, why loving is the scariest thing most of us will ever do in our lives. It is hard to step out beyond the boundaries of the known world–like an explorer insisting on a round world when the only available map depicts it as flat. So too is it alarming to the very core of one’s soul to let go of the obsession to be in control, to let go and just be…in love.