Comments on: Keeping open to love http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2009/01/14/keeping-open-to-love/ Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:12:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: G http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2009/01/14/keeping-open-to-love/comment-page-1/#comment-417287 G Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:23:25 +0000 http://paulocoelhoblog.com/?p=7791#comment-417287 "There are moments when we would like very much to help someone we love deeply and we just can’t seem to do a thing. Either circumstances prevent us from drawing closer or else the person has shut off to any gesture of solidarity and support." Thank you for your words. These resonate right now. Sometimes we feel helpless when a loved one is mired in his own stubbornness and cannot see that the choices he is making is hurting all those around us. He even uses the subtefuge that God's support though the choices are clearly driven by self-indulgence. He does not heed any of our reasonings or emotional pleas and that is when it is hardest to love that person. It is important to remember the story of the rose. “There are moments when we would like very much to help someone we love deeply and we just can’t seem to do a thing. Either circumstances prevent us from drawing closer or else the person has shut off to any gesture of solidarity and support.”

Thank you for your words. These resonate right now. Sometimes we feel helpless when a loved one is mired in his own stubbornness and cannot see that the choices he is making is hurting all those around us. He even uses the subtefuge that God’s support though the choices are clearly driven by self-indulgence. He does not heed any of our reasonings or emotional pleas and that is when it is hardest to love that person.

It is important to remember the story of the rose.

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]]> By: girlie http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2009/01/14/keeping-open-to-love/comment-page-1/#comment-124961 girlie Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:36:43 +0000 http://paulocoelhoblog.com/?p=7791#comment-124961 Thanks Mr. Coelho :D Reading your post is one of the teeming and peaceful time i had today... It's amazing how you simplify things and affect your readers... Hmmmm love indeed is boundless... Thanks Mr. Coelho :D

Reading your post is one of the teeming and peaceful time i had today…

It’s amazing how you simplify things and affect your readers…

Hmmmm love indeed is boundless…

]]> By: Antara http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2009/01/14/keeping-open-to-love/comment-page-1/#comment-113551 Antara Mon, 19 Jan 2009 09:37:31 +0000 http://paulocoelhoblog.com/?p=7791#comment-113551 Hello Kahil, I feel glad that you took time to reply :) Thanks u so much. But I really don't know how to wait for love in a constructive way :( Though I know you are right; I can't feel that way..anyhow. But there's one thing that brings me back to Solace and engulfs my soul with peace. It is a smile on face of that person. When I just close my eyes and think of him smiling in his own cheerful way, I feel like I've lived my life. A moment of happiness which flashes across his face, makes me forget my all woes, troubles and everything. I'm assured that he is happy, and I feel happy for him. This is just so simple, so innocent and so much serene...well that's how love is :) Wish you the best of life and love :) Take Care Antara Hello Kahil,
I feel glad that you took time to reply :) Thanks u so much.
But I really don’t know how to wait for love in a constructive way :(
Though I know you are right; I can’t feel that way..anyhow.

But there’s one thing that brings me back to Solace and engulfs my soul with peace. It is a smile on face of that person. When I just close my eyes and think of him smiling in his own cheerful way, I feel like I’ve lived my life.

A moment of happiness which flashes across his face, makes me forget my all woes, troubles and everything. I’m assured that he is happy, and I feel happy for him. This is just so simple, so innocent and so much serene…well that’s how love is :)
Wish you the best of life and love :)

Take Care
Antara

]]> By: Rose http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2009/01/14/keeping-open-to-love/comment-page-1/#comment-111881 Rose Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:14:34 +0000 http://paulocoelhoblog.com/?p=7791#comment-111881 Antara, I think I understand where you're coming from, but I think it's not love itself that acts like a traitor... LOVE is always there, all around... It doesn't betray us, we do the job ourselves much too well... Or others do it...it depends... Waiting for love is VERY risky... And also very much a contradiction... Esp. if you lose focus on your own life... Forget following your own path... Waiting for love to arrive or to come back.... Although it's never gone anywhere to begin with... There's always love if we just allow ourselves to feel it.... Even when it's not the kind of romantic love you were hoping for or dreaming of.... Believe me, I should know from personal experience... I've earned myself the title 'waiter extraordinaire' Try not to wait for love in a destructive, all consuming manner... I love everyday... And we should LIVE...Quite important too... Waiting...it can be a good thing, but also your downfall... Don't let it ruin you...Wait in a good, contructive way.... Wishing you all the best.... (I was just as much talking to myself here ;-) Love... It surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be. Kahlil Gibran Antara,

I think I understand where you’re coming from, but I think it’s not love itself that acts like a traitor…
LOVE is always there, all around…
It doesn’t betray us, we do the job ourselves much too well…
Or others do it…it depends…

Waiting for love is VERY risky…
And also very much a contradiction…
Esp. if you lose focus on your own life…
Forget following your own path…

Waiting for love to arrive or to come back….
Although it’s never gone anywhere to begin with…
There’s always love if we just allow ourselves to feel it….
Even when it’s not the kind of romantic love you were hoping for or dreaming of….
Believe me, I should know from personal experience…
I’ve earned myself the title ‘waiter extraordinaire’
Try not to wait for love in a destructive, all consuming manner…

I love everyday…
And we should LIVE…Quite important too…

Waiting…it can be a good thing, but also your downfall…
Don’t let it ruin you…Wait in a good, contructive way….

Wishing you all the best….

(I was just as much talking to myself here ;-)

Love… It surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
Kahlil Gibran

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