By Paulo Coelho
Love is only a small thing, enough for one person, and any suggestion that the heart might be larger than this is considered perverse.
(The Zahir)
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my interpretation:
it is wrong (perverse) if anybody thinks that the heart is large enough for more than one person,.
Love in our heart can only contain enough passion for one person.
So choose wisely..
Thanks Jessica for sharing the “Gotta be somebody” song. I like it a lot.
Can somebody tell me as of when two people are married? There are cultures that consider a man and woman married the moment they move in together. And others, from the moment they sign the legal document.
When are two people considered to be married by the bible? Is it a ritual? Is it when the man proposed and the woman (or in old times the womans father) agrees, like in Maria and Josephs case?
I believe that once you fall in love with one person, that that energy stays in your heart for ever even if thing don’t work out. And then, years later, when you fall in love again, the energy in your heart keeps growing, remembering the previous love and merging with the new. That to me is one of lifes purposes. For how many people can say for them selfs that they truly loved? As for those who have, they will understand.
Love is as small as your world.
How big your world is?
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=tBgLiBbAM-E
Love does not ‘know’ ….any boundaries…
A loving greek song.
LOVE,
THELMA
p.s. my dearest friends, I either did not get the meaning.[ I have read the book, but it belongs to my daughter; to have a look again]
Music has spoken for me, as always!!
T.
The quote of the day sounds like an ego’s judgement
Judge not, that ye be not judged
For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again
Mk. 4.24
What I think about it is this – We should love God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength, we cannot love many Gods with the same determination, our love is not big enough for that.
Same thing applies to our beloved, we should love simply. We cannot say, I love you and I love my secretary also, Love is only a small thing, enough for one person, and if you cannot love one person with all your heart and think you can ‘share’ it with many, that is where it gets (I don’t like this word) perverse.
O caminho que o “maluco Beleza” realiza pelo delta transcendental, poderá dar a resposta “fatal” para o alquista que está a procura da transmutação cósmica, do qual é precedente, para realizar uma nova jornada nesta nave chamada “Terra”, a qual natureza sempre está a abraçar seus rebentos que querem rever sua “maluquez”. Há sempre uma nova oportunidade, apesar da frenética simultaneidade de um dia com 24 horas.
Leonora
Paul, your apologies is accepted indeed. We’re here to grow as human beings, and hopefully have a mutually good time.
I find Paulo Coelho in this quote points to Zahir’s limitations, and makes an uproar towards generally accepted truth of love belonging only between two people. Doesn’t these words critic the whole idea of monogamy? Several places in Zahir, I find Paulo sides with a rebellious minority, and I’m asking myself if he support polygamists, or a way of serial relationships? I cannot help but think that Sultans, or Mormon men married to several women, accept a deep inequality between men and women, which as a woman, I’d find way too humiliating in the present form. I don’t see it as perverse to love more than one partner though, and find a lifelong commitment works for few in our world.
please can someone explain me better i didnt get it
There are people who are married and yet have open marriages because they believe that it is possable to love more than one person, that they grow from loving more than one person, that some relationships are transitory but remain loving and worthy of attention. Other people find this preverse. Some beleive in only one true love and others think life is full of several true loves.
Well I think people who think that love is small, for one person, are those who can only see their own point of view, and cannot love, or even contemplate loving anyone who is different – so for them, loving beyond themselves and what they believe is perverse. It’s the ‘if you aren’t with me, you’re against me’ approach.
i didnt quiet get it