Paulo Coelho
We often think we can control love. And then we catch ourselves asking the completely useless question: “is it really worth it?”
Love does not bother itself with that question. Love refuses to be priced like some piece of merchandise. One of the characters in Bertold Brecht’s play “The Good Person of Szechuan” tells us about true love:
“I want to be next to the one I love.
I don’t care what this will cost me.
I don’t care whether this will do my life good or bad.
I don’t care whether this person loves me or not.
All I want, all I need is to be close to the one I love.”
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Love not possesses not nor would it be possessed
for love is sufficient unto love
When you love you should not say
” God is in my heart”, but rather
” I am in the heart of God.”
And think not you can direct the course of love
for love, if it finds you worthy,
directs your course ( Khalil Gibran – On Love)
hmm – as long as the person you love isn’t married…
that kinda hinders loving the person even if they don’t love you back – pretty one sided love, lacking dynamic no? ;o)
I recommend a very funny explanation of why to love a man, the thoughts of Eve for Adam, in the vision of Mark Twain in “The Diaries of Adam and Eve”.I laughed a lot reading it,is really worthy reading it.
Oh my dearest, beautiful Annie, your sensitive ‘airy’ soul has caught my ..heartbeat!
LOVE,
Thelma
I love him besides his faults and insecurities. I love him in spite of his lies. I love him because he makes me a better person, because he challenges me, because he completes me. I love him from now to eternity… my wings are waiting for the wind to blow so i can fly towards him and rest by his side forever. (added by Mobile using Mippin)
beautiful.
« Nous pensons souvent que nous pouvons contrôler l’amour. Et puis nous avons prises nous-mêmes complètement inutile de demander la question: “est-ce vraiment utile? »
Nous ne pouvons jamais contrôler l’amour ni en nous-mêmes ni dans l’autre. Je suis d’accord qui c’est complètement inutile de le essayer. Savoir qu’on peut jamais contrôler notre amour nous apprendre d’abord le accepter tel qu’est sans l’attente ou l’exigence qui ça soit réciproque. Et ça demande une certaine maturité de notre sentiment, et même une humilité de notre parte, car l’amour nous laisse vulnérable à l’autre. Cette vulnérabilité peut nous amener des fois à des cyclones. Répondre avec l’amour le silence les attitudes d’haine de celui qu’on aime nous fais explorer notre amour, notre patiente et notre énergie. Mais on doit mettre un fin a cela si ça deviens destructive à nous même, a notre vie à notre chemin.
« Sans avoir jamais compris que l’Amour en aucun cas, n’empêche un homme de suivre sa Légende Personnelle, et quand cela arrive c’est qui n’était pas le Véritable Amour, celui qui parle de la Langage du Monde » Paulo Coelho, L’Alchimiste.
En réfléchissant a l’amour qui Jésus Crist nous appris. De répondre avec amour en regardant pas l’acte de notre prochain, même si c’est malsain. Ou l’amour de Bouddha qui nous appris l’amour par la conscience et la réalité du monde, de son prochain. Aujourd’hui peuvent croire qui aimer comment Jésus et Bouddha nous appris c’est se faire tapis. Je ne le crois pas.
« Si l’amour est comment le vent je veux être comment une plume » J’aime beaucoup ça Thelma !! Je pense de la même façon, cette sensation de légèreté d’une plume, d’un grain de sable dans le désert.. et je veux qui l’autre le sois aussi.
« Je veux être à côté de celle que j’aime. »
Pour sentir l’amour tu n’as pas besoin d’être avec l’autre physiquement. Tu peux même aimer quelqu’un qui est éloignée ou même jamais rencontrée. Bien sûr qui le sentiment nous donne la besoin de partager l’amour, de pouvoir être avec cette personne, mais si ce n’est pas réciproque, cette imposition n’est pas le Véritable Amour.
« Je ne sais pas de ce que cela va me coûter »
L’amour des fois demande des efforts de notre part et nous fait beaucoup apprendre, mais je vois un peu son idée comment sacrifice, ou d’imposition de cet amour. L’amour ne demande rien et se fais dans les choses simples de la vie.
« Je ne sais pas si cela va faire de ma vie bonne ou mauvaise. »
Si c’est le Véritable Amour la vie sera merveilleuse. Même âpres avoir finit, il va durer son éternité…
« Je ne sais pas si cette personne m’aime ou non. Tout ce que je veux, tout ce que j’ai besoin, c’est d’être proche de celle que j’aime. »
Si je veux être proche de la personne qui j’aime la première chose qui j’ai besoin de savoir c’est s’il m’aime aussi et si ça ferais aussi plaisir a elle d’être proche à moi. Si une personne qui j’aime ne m’aime pas je ne vais pas essayer d’être a son coté, je vais me contenter de lui aimer de loin.
Dans ma hombre opinion, “The Good Person of Szechuan” ne parle pas du véritable amour, parle peut être de la véritable passion.
En regardant d’un autre point de vu, “The Good Person of Szechuan” peut parler d’un Véritable Amour réciproque, le Véritable Amour qui rencontre des obstacles pour se réaliser. Dans ce cas, il saurait qu’elle lui aime, il saurait qui elle le ferait tous les efforts pour arriver a être a son cote aussi, donc il ne serait pas difficile, et il aurait été sûr qu’en étant proche ou éloignés ils seraient toujours dans la lumière, du Véritable Amour.
MARG,
Ca
We often think that we can control love. And then we made ourselves completely useless to ask the question: “Is it really useful?”
We can never control the love or ourselves or the other. I agree that it’s completely useless to try. Know we can control our love never leaves us first accept that without such expectation or requirement that it be reciprocal. And it requires a certain maturity in our sense, and even humility on our part, because the love leaves us vulnerable to another. This vulnerability can lead to both hurricanes. Reply with love silence attitudes of hatred of those we love do we explore our love, our patience and our energy. But we must put an end to it if it becomes destructive to ourselves, our lives.
“Without ever having realized that the love in no case does a man to follow his Personal Legend, and when this happens is not true love, one who speaks the language of the World Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist.
Reflecting Jesus Crist LOVE that we learned. Responding with love not watching the act of our neighbor, even if it is unhealthy. Or the love of Buddha who taught us love for consciousness and the reality of the world, its neighbor. Today may believe that love how Jesus and Buddha taught us is to make carpets. I think not.
“If love is how the wind how I want to be a feather” Thelma I love it! I think the same way, the sensation of lightness of a feather, a grain of sand in the desert .. and I want to be the other also.
“I want to be next to the one I love. ”
To feel the love you do not need to be with each other physically. You can even love someone who is far away or never even met. Of course the feeling that gives us the need to share the love, to be with this person, but if it is not reciprocal, this tax is not the true love.
“I do not know what it will cost me”
Love sometimes requires effort on our part and we learn a lot, but I see a little idea how his sacrifice, or the imposition of this love. Love asks for nothing and in doing the simple things of life.
“I do not know if this will make my life good or bad. ”
If this is the real love life will be wonderful. Even after having finished, it will last her forever …
“I do not know if that person loves me or not. All I want, all I need is to be close to that I love. ”
If I want to be close to the person who I like the first thing that I need to know if it loves me too and if it would also enjoy it to be close to me. If I like someone who does not like me I will not try to be at his side, I will love him from afar.
In my opinion hombre, “The Good Person of Szechuan” does not speak of true love, can speak of true passion.
Looking from another point of view, “The Good Person of Szechuan” may speak of a true mutual love, true love that encounters obstacles to achieve. In this case, he would know she loves him, he would know that it would all efforts to get to be at his side, too, so it would not be difficult, and he was confident that close or distant they would still be in the light of true love.
MARG,
Ca
To be next to the only one I have fallen in love with I left a great and secure job I had at the UN. I stopped my higher education and took a one way ticket to another country. I left my home, my friends, and everything else to be next to him. I have been with him for over a year and things did not always run smoothly for us both. We even broke up for three days and almost killed the both of us. We’re back together and we have learned that we cannot exist without each other. Now, my family opposes our relationship for we are planning to join our lives together forever before the whole world…
I can either be with him or with them,..
I did not even need to think about my decision, it only took me less than a second: I want to be next to the one I love.
I don’t care what this will cost me.
I don’t care whether this will do my life good or bad.
I love him,whether he is the wrong or right person for me.. nothing will ever make a difference for me..
He’s the only thing i want..
i agree with Brechts but not with all the ideas
i will not like anything bad -to happen to my life cuz of love- i dont believe in dieing for love- for me love is a very superior feeling but not with suffering!!!
and i also like to be loved- its ok for me to love more and to be loved less but the most important for me to be next to the one i love
and thank G-d i feel lucky!!!! it all happens in my actual life!
orly
And if the person we love doesn’t want to spend the time with us?
I think it is partially true. Unfortunately, what we want and what we need does not always happen, that is beyond our control. But at least we can be true to ourselves. That is more important.
I am in a situation coping a broken relationship from infidelity. I’ve past the phase of anger and wanting to make my gf “pay” for the agony I felt. But in the end it hurt me more. I had to accept I still love her, even after everything. Some people would think I am stupid. But I just want to be true to myself.
My gf finally chose to be with someone else and she ensured me it wasn’t due to any wrong I have done to her.
Something beyond my control. But I have no regrets because I have truly given my love sincerely.
“Love refuses to be prized like some piece of merchandise”
Love is not cheap,love just is.
“I want to be next to the one I love.
I don’t care what this will cost me.
I don’t care whether this will do my life good or bad.
I don’t care whether this person loves me or not.
All I want, all I need is to be close to the one I love.”
All we have to do is to open our hearts ..
But our Loved one ‘knows’ that we are near .., we breath with them, our heart beats with their heart, we send blessings, kisses, smiles..
Space and time is only an Illusion. Now and ‘for ever’.. is one. Pain, sadness, loneliness is only of this World and my Love does not belong to this dimension only. Love is an expression of my Soul and does not have any boundaries. I am always with those I LOVE.
LOVE,
Thelma.
Shen Te needed to invent the existence of a cousin, to balance her extreme form of loving a person. She was too good, to be able coming in touch with her own lower or bader self.
The tragedy of the good ones sometimes is, that they never have been bad enough, to be good enough good,to make the world a better one. Light always needs shadow and becoming a truly and healthy loving person, it sometimes means crucing heaven and hell in and outside. Sounds depressive, but it isn t. Love is all around
de algo estoy segura; de que el amor es lo más importante de esta vida. solo con amor, la vida tiene sentido. el amor te puede hundir pero también es lo único que te salva. el desamor debilita, el amor fortalece enormemente. el amor es lo contrario que el egoísmo. sólo cuando se entiende que el amor es un regalo no una posesión, el amor te curará. SOLO CUANDO LO SOLTÉ, VINO A MI CON INTENSIDAD.
Kasia May: You couldn’t of said it better. I can say I agree fully – it seems like obsession, or even egoistic, at some point… what is described here.
Jessica: Yes, I think this is Eeros. By the way, Jessica – I’m glad You’re doing so so much better now. :) Good thoughts towards to You!
Love,
L.L.
an open letter to Paulo Coelho, great leader of “Warriors of light” from “queen of warriors”:
http://reginaguerriera.splinder.com/
good lines… and I want the same,it is truly human… but now is a time in my life when i try to find who am i really is,and i found out that i always run from love! i have big dreams,expectations for my future, i can feel,i love every being…,but i don’t have loved one,and even when i have a chance for some relations, i find excuses and just run from it as fast as i can… don’t know what’s going on in my heart and mind, because i want to live for someone! i don’t know how to open myself to people and let them and let myself know that i ready for love and to love…
It’s funny, I remember when I was young (22, now 47) and in love with my ex-husband, before our son was born and for some time after. I think I/we felt this, an obsessive love. Now looking back on this I feel that I always had a feeling of agape, but didn’t really get the concept. I was moved since childhood by the words of Christ, “Let the little children come to me do not hinder them,” that is one reason why I became a teacher. I always felt that if we approached the divine like a child, pure and fresh we would be embracing a greater and cleaner holy spirit, one that was truly simpler and purer than what anyone could preach or teach in the church. I now see how my understanding of the loves could get mixed up. I always had an open heart, but it was that obsessive desire that I guess both my ex and I had that killed us. I know why people write about vampires. I was being held captive by one and being sucked dry. I got a taste of freedom and finally found a way out of the relationship. Once I understood that the desire was not for him but was agape, I think the relationship had to end. Once I had what I believe Señor Coelho’s tradition would call my first major blue sphere experience (Hawaii, Summer 1994). I think I was energetically changed forever. It was a merging with the beloved, the divine, the other that was so moving and heart opening that I’ll never forget it. I know my heart can be so much bigger than me that it is amazing. Our capacity to love is enless. This is why I love my husband, Stuart now in a balanced way, I see him as also understanding the concept of agape. His calm and clarity stills my wild large heart and brings me great peace and love. He treats me, and the whole world with great reverence. He walks with me and I with him, and we also trust to give each other space to walk alone. We are blessed to share our lives with each other. I hope others have the courage to reach out and to find their love and peace.
Well, somehow it looks to me more like description of obsession rather then love. I feel that true love has one very important ingredient that is lacking here and that is respect for other person feelings and wishing them to be happy. I don’t think that the person who ‘loves’ in this way can be really happy and love by nature is happiness. I think when ‘love’ starts causing us pain than we have to look very closely at our feelings and check where they coming from because maybe their source is not that pure, maybe there is some selfishness in our heart. And once we let go of this selfishness miracles can really happen…
Dear all,
Happy Easter to you all (human beings), and to all animals (birds, lions, elephants, ants,…) and to all other living beings (plants, objects, nature, climate, rain, lake, sea, stars, universe, sun,..)
I am in pain and I know how it feels to be in pain. I hope you will never have pain in your life.
Below is the poem which states that,
An old man is begging Lord, to take away his life. He cannot commit sucide because he is very old and he does not have love in his life so he is begging from lord to give him death, as soon as possible. I hope his prayers will be fulfilled.
(Afterwards, the poorest guy in earth will never appear anywhere…)
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I beg you lord
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I am begging for god to take away my life
I do not want to live, without love
Man who lives oneday and dies the same day
I am powerless, without energy
Oh love, why is it so difficult?
Differences dividing us
When would world understand?
Love is beyond any culture, age and religion
Love is very simple, beautiful
Your face with early morning sunrise
Your love for love
I do not want to live any longer
I don’t know, why I am alive?
I am without you, you are without me
We need each other,
World is dividing thee
I am hoping beyond hope
You might just change your heart
Road ahead is difficult
Trust me, I am your only one
I am your only happiness,
Time will tell
There are two ways that you can choose
Easy is very easy and difficult very difficult
Easy will lead you to sorrow and pain, the end.
Difficult will ask you,”Kill yourself.”, the beginning.
Mr. Happy and Mr. Difficult are best friends,
True loving friends, they live together, forever
Mr. Easy and Mr. Happy are enemies
False loving friends, they hate each other, ever and ever
Decide from your heart
I beg you lord, take away my soul from this useless body
I know now, the meaning of pain
Every time, I wake up I beg you to take away my life
I beg you lord, life is useless without love
A smile, a touch, a kiss, a hug
All are missing, for so long
I am begging you lord, to give me death
For so long,
I hope she will be happy
I know she will not be
Between “hope” and “knowing”
I am nobody who should decide
Her fate and her life
I am in pain and I know now, meaning of pain
I want to die but I cannot kill myself
I am too coward who fears death
O dear lord, I beg you to give death
I beg you lord, I beg you.
This human life, is for moment
In this moment, is my story
I am living in this moment
My story is living with me
Oneday, I will fade away
My story will fade away with me
I beg you lord, take away my life
I don’t need this flesh, without soul
I don’t need this world, without her love
I hate, cry, feel pain, suffer than
your sons has ever suffered,
Jesus, Krishna, Buddha, Mohmaad …
I beg you lord, please take away my life
I beg you lord, I beg you…
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God blesses you !
and
God bless you, all !
Sorry Paulo… I don’t really like those words.
What of my own soul and heart and my own love when I give and give and get hurt, just to be with the one I ‘love’ when he does not love me back?? Can this love still be considered a love? Is to love not also to be loved?
‘I don’t care whether this person loves me or not.’…. if that is so, then do the emotions I feel towards this person really fally into the love category?
But in saying the above… of course I have felt the emotions mentioned, and I have never heard truer words spoken than:
It is better to have loved and lost than never have loved at all.
Laudy
x
To try and control love is like trying to control the wind! The wind doesn’t have another owner beside God! God will instruct the wind to blow and God will instruct your heart who to love. Once this is done you can no longer decide who your heart belongs to! You are no longer living for you but for that person you love. Imagine finding that one person that completes you and you have now become one with them? Is it too much to imagine? At this stage in our lives and how the world is running we try to hang on to what makes us happy…Love can have its up and down but We still try to hang on at the end it makes us happy!
“I want to be next to the one I love.
I don’t care what this will cost me.
I don’t care whether this will do my life good or bad.
I don’t care whether this person loves me or not.
All I want, all I need is to be close to the one I love.”
Karen,
I know your feeling but you have broke up and that is sad, I am sorry for you and your love…,
I hope their might be some reason behind you getting broken up, whatever be the reason… I hope you will get your true love…
If your true love really trully loves you, he/she will come back to you. If it does not, then it was never yours.
God blesses you !
and
God bless you all !
to control love is like trying to control the air we breathe
or other forces of nature…
love
wendy.
For some reason this text feels wrong for me. Sure, sometimes we can fall in love with not having the other person loving us… but something I strive for is, as some here have described, the other half, the twinsoul, the soulmate. Someone who loves me back.
True love manifests between both persons. Flows out of both persons, dwells in both persons, flows into both persons.
True love.
Hello Paulo, People
If I am with the one I love, I do not even think of anything because I can really give and receive, nothing… :) When nothing are the stakes, there starts the meaningful things that really matter.
What else than love really matters? Maybe finding a way to express it. :)))))))
Love, for everyone.
Loving for the sake of love itself. Unconditionally! What is that? If my loved one says ‘I love him and I love you too and I shall be with him more than I am with you’- When I want her next to me and if she is not there, how can I go beyond this and still love her?? I want to be with her but she does not at a particular time, then . . .
Recently I happen to meet my twinsoul -
A lifechanging episode where my soul exploded into a whirl of light & exitement
Even thoug he was in a relationship with another…for me this became an experience in true love – the one that doesn`t expect or demand anything – but the simple and challenging love that just IS – and belongs to eternity
Considering the divine love in Crist – I both want and can –
delight in it – whenever I choose*
We all can – offcourse :-)
Love does not know about percentages. Once I was asked by a monk if I loved a man in particular. Not even 30 percent? He asked. I was amazed that he used numbers to measure Love… When we love there is no measure, there are no limits, no expectations neither. It is hard to understand, or to attain to this reality. But once it is accepted, or better said, embraced, then it is when we truly feel Love, even if we are not Loved. But we are Loved by those and WHO really are meant to see our tears of Love.
You know, thinking about it some more..I think this quote can be expanded to everything in life – it is something I have been struggling with, feeling like I am trapped in propriety and social expectations of my behavior…I realize I am the one who has allowed myself to be imprisoned, but the point is that if we really love anything in life, reallly are passionate about it, we go after it with a kind of madness, where you can’t see anything else, but the object/the goal/ the dream of your desire..to do that is to free your soul, your heart, your life force…
I am trying to figure out how..
I have felt that kind of a love before – an obsession even, or my zahir….I love him still and accept him as he is, I want to be with him still..but respect his wishes
I am happy to have experienced such an all consuming force, crazy, boundless beyond all societal practices and human comprehension…beyond the realms that I know every day..
I did not think of cost, I did not hesitate, I just loved and loved and loved…and despite all the pain I felt…
…it was worth it! That is to live..you have to be a little bit crazy :)
I have felt that kind of a love before – an obsession even, or my zahir….I love him still and accept him as he is, I want to be with him still..but respect his wishes
I am happy to have experienced such an all consuming, crazy, boundless beyond all societal practices and human comprehension…beyond the realms that I know every day..
I did not think of cost, I did not hesitate, I just loved and loved and loved…and despite all the pain I felt…
…it was worth it! That is to live..you have to be a little bit crazy :)
Dear Paulo,
I am sorry, I forgot to read the title, “Trying to control the soul.”
-Nobody should control the soul and those who will control will never get true love.
-Yes I agree,….
-Below is the poem created instantly by poorest author in entire universe but richest author in his true human soul.
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What is Love?
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love has no diffences and
love is pure and unconditional.
love is the beauty in early morning sunrise,
love is sacrifise at the same time prayer,
love is love and more you love, love
love, you will find true love,
love has no gain and love has no pain,
love has no culture and love will always remain
More I can give in love, happier I become
Oh dear love, so charmismatic and beauty
Any words ever sworn
Love is healer, love is magic
All I have to say now, love will never find tragic
Love is in me, love is in you
love can change, change in itself
Love has no opinions
Neither it has age
Love is love
I am love, you are love
I and Me, belong to love of “WE”
Your love belongs to me,
My love belongs to you..
I am poor every time I fail in love
Richer every time, you make me rise in love
Love is love
All we need is love
Love is in simplicity, love is in smile
Love is in music, no religion it divides
Love is in giving, love is in taking
Love is love
All we need is love
Love can embrass, love can depress
Love can bring hope,
To all the races
Love is love
All we need is love
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Dear Paulo,
Here is what I will say,-
“Jesus was crucified for humanity, I am being crucified for love.”
-Mybheja
God bless you all !
I`ve recently been so lucky meeting my twinsoul – the most lifechanging episode in my life* It was as if my heart & soul exploded into a whirl of light and exitement -
Unfortunately he was in a relationship with another – but in a profound away that really doesn`t matter…because LOVE IS – and when one start expecting or demanding something out of love – it`s pure beauty turn into darkness and despair.
This knowing loving feeling I will always carry inside – it belongs to eternity.
When it comes to the divine love in Crist –
I both want and can – stay next to Him, whenever i chose*
Exception.To give Love a chance-one from 2 things should be done.To “give in”-and mild “occupation” will occur.To reject-and soon..to get “crushed” by the Force called Love,as nobody can fight it.Win-Win situation.Sometimes happens,when “fight or flight” does not work.
“I want to be next to the one I love.
I don’t care what this will cost me.
I don’t care whether this will do my life good or bad.
I don’t care whether this person loves me or not.
All I want, all I need is to be close to the one I love.”
How beautiful is that.
Love simply is; just….
Love refuses to be priced like some piece of merchandise….
When I first noticed that I was in love I wondered to myself why do we place a higher value on certain people? Why is this person my absolute favorite all of a sudden? It is like certain people are more “valuable” to us in terms of love. They help us to see that we are extrodinary and that the world is wide open. These more “valuable” people feel like they have a higher cost when they leave.
Currently, I see that everybody is “valuable” to us. We just have to be willing to pay attention to the lessons that they can teach. This person, “my absolute favorite” is also teaching lessons. We at this time are coming to realize that we love each other deeply. There is no reason to assume anything else about the other. We are realizing that our capacity to love mirrors each other and we are both willing to show it in its fullness. This is something that we both have not done in other relationships. There has always been some kind of “holding back” of true feelings. We both agree that we should be as honest as we can whether it be good or bad. So far there has only been good. It feels very easy. I think we both decided to love the other regardless of the consequences. I did not care if he even loved me as much as I loved him. I am finding that he has chosen to love me in the same way. It is a nice feeling when one realizes that the other is loving you regardless of consequences just like you are doing.
Like nature cycles in seasons, our soul cycles and receives fresh starts over the course of our life. Everything can happen when love is what drives new beginnings. Being in love I have studied a new language, converted to a new religion, changed my eating habits, listened to new music, moved to a new continent and walked paths I would never dream of pursuing, if it weren’t for true love opening new doors in the soul.
There must always be a balance though. If you take this stance on love, what happens to your own life? What happens to your personal legend and the dreams that you are meant to fulfill? Is there room for this immense kind of love AND your ultimate dreams? I’m sitting on the fence in between these two. I’m not so sure that they can co-exist. And if there isn’t room for both, does that mean that they were not your REAL true love? So many questions!! IF this is so, I’m not sure I have ever TRULY been in love and that thought makes me sad. Really, I am the only one that can answer these questions…I already know the answer…some times it just takes a certain moment, a catalyst to reveal themselves. Love…….boo.
Precioso, precioso. Parece como si estas palabras quitan todas las dudas todos los obstáculos que pone la mente para el Amor.
Viva el Amor.
I broke with my boyfriend 10 days ago, and experienced such pain and heart-ache, I felt I was dying.
It seemed I was dying WITH him, and now dying WITHOUT him.
I split because of his selfishness, but learned through the heartache of losing him that I had to forgive him.
I learned from the split that we share TRUE LOVE, and this was not so in my previous relationships.
That TRUE LOVE demands that I forgive – and that can be VERY, VERY DIFFICULT and painful. But where there is TRUE LOVE, it is possible.
The split revealed to both of us that we feel TRUE LOVE for each other.
This is a love beyond one’s ego.
It is of the spirit.
Life always surprises us with its lessons.
Yesterday I found these lines by Martin Luther King.
Although he is talking about Love in the context of society, for me, as I learned from the split with MY LOVE, it is the same reality between 2 people who love each other, but are not in harmony.
“……Do to us what you will, and we shall continue to love you….Throw us in jail, and we shall still love you.
Send your hooded perpetrators of violence into our community at the midnight hour and beat us and leave us half dead, and we shall still love you.
But be ye assured that we will wear you down by our capacity to suffer….” Love is the most durable power in the world.
Martin Luther King.
To this I say “Amen” because now I know it is so.
Blessings everyone,
Karen xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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‘I want to be next to the one I love, I don’t care what it will cost me’ dangerous sentiments that only a person who couldn’t visualise the cost and devasting losses would wax lyrical about..where do broken hearts go :(
Beautiful words indeed! Thank you so much dear Paulo for sharing them.
Love, sincere, timeless, unconditional, almighty love is the best thing that can happen to everyone. Apart from anything else, in time the love you feel is the only one that goes with you, in and out of you.
I just love to love as it is the greatest feeling in the whole world! I love the light, the sky, the earth, the moon, the stars, the sun, people, nice surprises, the wind, the rain, the snow, the air I breathe, the water and so on. Amazingly there is always something to be discovered and loved. But above all, there is love for life itself, for the light that created us, for the mysterious experiments of existence and the will to go on, for the divine energy which makes us dance the dance of life over and over again, maintaining its charm as if it were for the first time we have ever lived.
May God bless the whole world by melting it in the ocean of eternal love!
Lots of hugs and appreciation :o)
Wonderful lines.Maybe I want a little bit more,I really wish that my beloved share my feelings.Only than the feelings are complete,and bring us near paradise.But I agree,Love is blind.We use to use a lovers has eyeglasses with pink lens.Hope I used the right terms.I mean they see things distorted, not as they really are.Was funny seeing my cousin with his fiance before wedding.She praised him so much,seemed a God ,if we heard her words.After the wedding,and two kids,no more praising,but some scoldings from her to my cousin…The pink color period had passed…
Learn to love yourself first,then the rest will come.
“I want to be next to the one I love. I don’t care what this will cost me:” The expression of a sentiment that has wrecked homes, destroyed marriages, started family-feuds and skirmishes and even wars, undermined the power of dynasties and toppled great empires. Certainly, in the myth and literature and history of the ages, a sentiment that has brought about many a tragedy and, frequently, many a death: Tristan and Isolde, Romeo and Juliet, Anthony and Cleopatra….
However, that is the nature of true love, proof of the power it holds, in that it can drive men (and women) to do most anything. A slumbering giant may lie tied, flat of his back, bound down by the norms and rules his society proclaims, but if the flame of true love is kindled in his heart, he will awaken from his stupor and uproot the very foundations of the earth in order to free himself and make it into the arms of his beloved, even if the price is certain death, even if that gesture to free himself proves to be his last. There is no obstacle so great that the power of love cannot eradicate one’s fear of it.
This may seem irrational, even foolish to the observer, but how often in life do we get to feel that sort of force surging through our veins? How many of us ever get the opportunity to experience the awakening of a power within us that knows no mortal foe, that is truly invincible because it is willing to risk all, and more. Even life itself has no value when placed in the scales alongside true love. The lover will risk even death in order to find his way into the arms of the one he loves.
That kind of love – the kind that has the power to extinguish or ignite entire worlds – is probably the rarest element on earth. Yet, how often to we sit, frozen, watching the door to love open…and then slowly close again? How often to we allow the sense of morality and “rightness” embedded in our brains and branded on our souls keep us from the one thing that we know would make us happier than anything else in the entire universe? – Maybe not tomorrow, maybe not forever (tomorrow we may be dead, forever may not come), but for that one gleaming golden hour of radiant and ecstatic love, what would we not give? And why? What does it profit us to be buried standing “upright” – to be pillars of resistance, martyrs of suffering and want, to be the one who always “did the right thing” in the eyes of society – only to know that we died having passed up the very Holy Grail itself, though it was held out within our grasp, overflowing with promise?
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