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By: Sara

Sara — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:34:05 +0000

And your sensitive words has caught my heartbeat too Thelma :)
i just love to read ur comments..

Love and more
Sara

By: Marie-Christine

Marie-Christine — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:31:34 +0000

Arethoughs – Barethoughs -
What do you mean by this material is protected by copyright law?Without explicit authorisation, reproduction is only allowed in so far as it is permitted by law or by agreement with a collecting society? What is a collecting society?
Where are you based? In the USA?
I have noticed your site is under construction, where do we contact you then?
Thanks.

By: bAREthoughs

bAREthoughs — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:46:07 +0000

Thanks of a lovly poem, sometimes a poem can be more powerfull than a novel.

I try to hide my soul, but I have to much to talk about, so I try to speak. I have found true love, she is not ready….. I am writing songs to express my feelings…

Here is an example of a verse I wrote yeasterday…

Colors Colors Colors

Colors is what we see
Colors is what we feel
Colors is able to heal
And that is a great great deal

Colors Colors Colors

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By: AREthoughs

AREthoughs — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:23:23 +0000

Thanks of a lovly poem. A poem is sometimes more powerfull than a book.

I write poems and songs, love songs and philosopic songs, in my language and american. The words dance in my soul togeher with the sound of the music in my mind. Here is the verse of my song i wrote yeaterday. Have a lovly happy day. Peace is in our souls.

Colors is what we see
Colors is what we feel
Colors is able to heal
And that is a great great deal

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By: MIT

MIT — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 19:47:08 +0000

It’s irrational words, only feelings….I’m agree with Ca’s coments about it. “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.”

MIT

By: Juliane

Juliane — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 18:29:03 +0000

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)

By: Catherine

Catherine — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 18:01:20 +0000

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)

By: Alexandra

Alexandra — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 14:20:07 +0000

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.

By: THELMA

THELMA — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 04:55:11 +0000

Oh my dearest, beautiful Annie, your sensitive ‘airy’ soul has caught my ..heartbeat!
LOVE,
Thelma

By: Sosa

Sosa — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 04:08:42 +0000

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)

By: Casey

Casey — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 02:39:07 +0000

beautiful.

By: CA

CA — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 00:48:29 +0000

« 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

By: beeba

beeba — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 18:36:56 +0000

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..

By: orly

orly — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:36:48 +0000

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

By: Tanja

Tanja — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 15:40:02 +0000

And if the person we love doesn’t want to spend the time with us?

By: Jekiy

Jekiy — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 15:16:31 +0000

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.

By: Marie-Christine

Marie-Christine — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 13:43:03 +0000

“Love refuses to be prized like some piece of merchandise”
Love is not cheap,love just is.

By: THELMA

THELMA — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 13:01:08 +0000

“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.

By: Juliane

Juliane — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 11:44:36 +0000

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

By: Belén

Belén — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 11:06:45 +0000

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.

By: Liina.L

Liina.L — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 10:33:55 +0000

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.

By: Gina Re

Gina Re — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 09:12:18 +0000

an open letter to Paulo Coelho, great leader of “Warriors of light” from “queen of warriors”:
http://reginaguerriera.splinder.com/

By: Natalia

Natalia — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 09:10:29 +0000

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…

By: Karen Andersen Miller

Karen Andersen Miller — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 09:04:19 +0000

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.

By: Kasia May

Kasia May — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 07:26:52 +0000

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…

By: Santosh Kalwar

Santosh Kalwar — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 06:18:13 +0000

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…)

****************************************************
I beg you lord
****************************************************
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…

***************************************************

God blesses you !

and

God bless you, all !

By: Laudy

Laudy — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 03:25:04 +0000

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

By: Carmen

Carmen — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 03:23:33 +0000

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!

By: Carolena Sabah

Carolena Sabah — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 23:29:05 +0000