A man was walking along the road to Damascus. He recalled his lost love and his soul grieved.
“Pity on those who know love,” he thought. “They will never be happy, with the fear of losing the one they love.”
At that moment he heard a nightingale sing.
- Why do you act like that? – the man asked the nightingale. – Don’t you see that my beloved, who loved your song so much, is no longer here by my side?
- I sing because I am happy – answered the nightingale.
- Haven’t you ever lost someone? – the man insisted.
- Many times – answered the nightingale. – But my love still remains all the same.
And the man went on his way feeling more hopeful.
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Tengo que conocer el amor. No enamorarme sino conocer el amor.
why Damascus why > what for ? I need answer please > I live in damascus
wow! what a beautiful story Paulo. Although most of us usually don’t see it like that when the time and the moment comes. I myself have had my share of hard moments and had lost quite a few people who had been trully dear to my heart and I must confess I did not take it so beautifully hopeful like the little pretty bird; On the contrary, I was a bit bitter and so heart broken I could not stand it and at some point felt my whole world came crushing down. And to my surprised I was not that tough nor positive as am usually am.
But Once I did. Once I read in your books that I must let go of all those moments that I no longer will have and those experiences that once happened. well, I guess I kind of transformed myself in that positive little bird and decided to start over. I did lose a cople of people I loved so much, but I understood that just because they are no longer with me, does not mean that I will not continue loving or living right!
So this story is so cute and so true that relates with so many of us, just like many of your books and stories Paulo :p Keep up the great job. We love you and it is trully un honor and inspiration to be able to share our stories here. Thank you Paulo and may God keep blessing you with so much talent, so that you can keep helping people, just like you do through all your books. Its true what they say: “the word is power” Its the true sword once used it penetrates so deep in depth that no heart can denie it, on the contrary it touches so deep it regenerates an inner strength, a true inner reaction that its even hard to explain, but indeed happens.
Hugs and purple smiles mi “maestro de Inspiracion” Thank you for your books inspire, they touch and transform lives. :P
Respects,
Genie
Toronto, Canada
love means giving.. and love doesn’t tell to hold someone..
of course.. since my love never ends once it start growing.
thanks from my heart for this wonderful message……. i wanna say ” i love you ” to all my dear ones. thanks god for this wonderful life .
i remem d day wen i lost my grand paa n i still blame myself….this is the biggest guilt of my life……. I am sorry jus need a chance i love u nanu
El amor permanece si no se renuncia a amar, hay parejas que se consumen en la placidez de una tarde de domingo como todas las del resto de su vida, otros conservan todavía en su interior la llama del amor, no la han apagado por el miedo a no encontrar otro ¿amor?.
Conservo la esperanza porque prefiero esperar al Amor que conformarme con amor sin Amor, y a pesar de la incertidumbre, soy feliz, la llama sigue viva.
HERMOSO!!!ADEMÁS DE UNA GRAN VERDAD, EL AMOR VERDADERO CUANDO SE PIERDE SE APRENDE A VIVIR SIN EL ,PERO NUNCA DEJA DE SER AMOR…MUCHO MÁS ALLA DE LA MUERTE.
We all lost someone. In this moment, I realize that somehow, I lost myself. I don’t know when, but I know why. I just hope I’ll have a strenght to fight for my life back. It’s had when I don’t know anymore the differnce between who I am and who I want to be.
beautiful post.
we all have lost someone along the way.
and there is nothing we can do but to accept and then try to move on with our lives. through prayer and hope.
Its such an irony,better to lose ur beloved to death rather than to loss of trust n respect,love remains in the first intance of death but vanishes away wid de second,better to live for the moment atleast i wont repent later on n remind myself that i hd loved him till he didnt lose his trust afterdat not for a single moment
Goodbyes are not forever. Goodbyes are not the end.
They simply mean I’ll miss you Until we meet again!
yes but when we will meet again thats why we hate good byes because we don’t know when will meet ??
We must keep going onwards and upwards and singing the song of our own gifts and interests…and be grateful for the good in our lives.
Life allows us to experience loss …differant types of loss ..like in the Zahir…
Tt cuts deep when it is a family member ..and there is uncertainty when we will meet again..
hope and faith
Love
Breda
correct Breda,whatever happens life has to go on.everyone on this earth is gifted ,god gives us difficulties and sorrows not to put our life at stake but to make us realise our strengths and capabilities. So whatever may happen life has to go on.so we should be happy for all our blessings and carry on further
LOVE SHOULD ALWAYS END WITH HOPE.
In Albania whe have a say that you lose pepell in the road that you chose but the point is to dont desert or sorender
I still have love for 2 more days. Euphoria and panic are running loose through me. Although I am soooo grateful to him for making me feel and live so intensively the most beautiful and fulfilling emotion of my life, I wander why I fell in the trap of love again. How can I speed up time so that only the sweetest memories will remain and the knot in my throat, the pain will have gone?
I met him in Damascus ,when I was studying in that city of dreams ,
we were friends , brother and sister , after few months I’ve left , I left because I got a job with a good salary , but I kept in touch with him ,before 10 months he told me that he loves me very much but he never had the courage to admit that,I spent the last ten months dreaming about our meeting ,we’ve been discussing how to figure out a way to be together ,
Now guess what !!??
He’s leaving , leaving to another country ,Now there’s no hope to get together , I’m dying , why I met him ?? why why ?? to suffer ??!!!!
I’ve been missing him ,thinking about him , but look what fate has done !!
I can see no hope ….
Thanks Paulo….
Its hard to bear the loss of our beloved… but they wont ever fade away in our heart and memories
after the long sleepless night I’m again at the same point…..I can’t stop loving …..I forgive….may I be forgiven for not having faith……love never dies….love even if you are not loved,care even if you are not cared….pray and pray one day your dreams may come true.GOD bless all….Amen……..
Love really is the energy of the universe. I am reminded of my favourite poem –
The life that I have
Is all that I have
And the life that I have
Is yours
The love that I have
Of the life that I have
Is yours and yours and yours
A sleep I shall have
A rest I shall have
Yet death will be but a pause
For the peace of my years
In the long green grass
Will be yours and yours
And yours
l’amore equivale ad un fiume,vive i suoi momenti di piena e non…che dire del suo ricongiungimento al mare*
Love the way you put words and meanings togheter.
Your books means so much to me…, small words that makes me wake up. At least for the moment when i read them.
yes, i have lost almost everyone i love – but i love life. And i love our animals. A bird thats sing…
Thanks for sharing your words here.
Tammy
“But my love still remains all the same.” – I really know what does it mean.
A beautiful song, thankyou Paulo.
Love never dies.
The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again. – Charles Dickens
Love and huge hugs, extra to those who need most.
Thankyou to my friends for laughter yesterday!
The loss of a loved one is a terrible thing.. however, when we recover from the loss and sadness, loneliness move on somewhat . . the love that is in us can be revived and we can love again. Love takes many shapes and forms . . besides the special one-to-one relationship, there is love of family, friends, work, hobbies and of course God . . we should share our love with those who are on the edge of society . . poor, elderly,sick and the third world.Love can brighten up the most dingiest corner.
We only lose someone, when we love that person more than we love ourself
yes,If you love someone so much you must be ready to let them go.
What if your beloved one is not yours? But trust me even after the pain is equally same when you loose one who is yours!
losing someone to someone else is not losing that person… knowing he/she is still alive is no loss!!!! losing your loved one to death is losing because it’s forever… it’s the sadness knowing you never will be able to hug and kiss that person physically!!! all the memories and the tears of yearning is the unbearable pain…
You are right Paulo, thank you.
You are the best there ever est.
I love you.
XXX
Hi Paulo
Thank you for posting such a powerful piece. Love is eternal and when someone leaves us whether it is through death or the break up of a relationship, their physical presence is being missed. True love which is unconditional only remembers love; because it is a constant, it is the energy through which existence was created and ultimately who we are, and when we remember who we truly are, we know that love is always there, it has merely matured.
in peace
YES, i Have ever lost someone i love. Someone who I hug and kiss on the day he died. Till now i still crying not because of the pain in my heart but because of my love for him grow every day. Tomorrow is his birthday .. I wish I could say happy birthday to him directly, hugged and kissed him and celebrate with him .. not in solitude and silence.
No, my love for him is not the same as it once again, it’s growing and it’s increase..
*in memory of my beloved brother – Tamba Horas Simbolon, 13081980-13082011
IN FACT LOOSING LOVE EXPLAIN THE VALUE OF LOVE……………. AUDACIOUS RJ
As love has nothing to do with possession, it is the same, even if you do not have the person you love near you. Possession is a need of the ego, and stems out of your need to be considered special by the one you love, out of your fear of losing him/her. You need him/her to give you, and only you, his/her love. But that is not love. A more accurate definition of this would be: I love you only if you give me something back? Hm… Love does not require reciprocation. It just is.
Dříve nebo později to potká každého, i vícekrát.
Více takových slavíků!
And God’s love never changes. He loses most of us each day and His love still remains the same. I love it!
good reading. teaches a lot about love, loss, grievance and all their connection to the very true feeling in one—-love….the only feeling sustaining life itself
Lost a love i really luv tht gal we hve 4 yr relation i devote every breath but yes i was very suspicious and god listen to this she was talking to some 1 more thn me still i try to over cme but she dump me i dnt knw y god do tht yes i still luv her but knw i dnt want to see or tlk her it pains really i was true till she was in my life but knw i become bad and i want to because nt gal is true in this era :(
jai shri ganesha!
The hapiness can participate to love, but love insteed is part of the all life. There is no one way to love the others, the way to love is different for each one. Accepting the fact that sometimes the way´s of others are changing, but as you said Paulo, I think that indeed love grows in strenght, in the difficulties… that´s a true paradox but that´s part of the truth… the truth to learn to respect the freedom and the choices but also the truht to learn something even bigger: the universe. Love and light to you and all your family. May God bless you always. Thank you for all you done and all you do. You do so much! :) Take care. Cris
i really hope to fall in love again.but i dont .i dont kknow why.
Many people passed away in our life. I lost my love and I thought it is the end of my life, but I am still alive. Recently I lost you my dear dad, now I think also it is the end, but no our beloved leave us physically; only their bodies fade away. But our love grows day by day stronger. Love is our strength, faith, and breath. We pray for God`s love. We breath since we love life. It is the magic and the secret of our happiness. It is simply LOVE.
Enjoy your day.
Many people passed away in our life.
you may lost someone you loved….but memories lives on…
Love is also to let go. If a loved person die, you have to let go (after mourning) so the dead can go on on the other side….
We should be thankful for being able to love. It is the powerful mean God has given to us in order to help our loved ones and others people in this world.
Wish I was Nightingale who can remain happy even after losing someone so dear.
I have lost my love, and after losing her, I came to know why have I lost her, but the beauties of nature that we shared together, still helps me to be with her.
Love is the Eternal things, its feelings is the same, may be the parents in the childhood days………..Teenage days for girl friend…Married days for wife & children…………..But when he lost that love then he will realize the deepness of “Love” ………………We can
“Pity on those who know love,” he thought. “They will never be happy, with the fear of losing the one they love.”
( Love is a situation, expected, without expectations. Expect it, and accept it as it is, to be honest with yourself and in peace with love for love and for yourself!)
Much luv!
It was the same story as mine,and to explain how much i love her,her! because this makes all my hopes broke and to tell how much i feel pain.I still love her my first time meeting with her,but mine! was like unwanted visiter,it makes me broke and lost in her heart,and i do not know how much i need her! but all my feelings are saying that i love her so much.I am normally thinking open-minded and with good sense,but i dont what happen to me.I said so many lie to her,but everyone know that i do all these things because of that i do not want to lose her.Now,I am without her.She should be in any other men’ arms and in their bed :( I miss you.. I will not forget you.You know after 6 years..I still love you!
its from turkey to england for a polish woman! (That’s for a woman who is from Amazons.)
this message is so inspiring and it really makes sense. i have had my share of losing someone and it never was easy. i even asked myself why love was ever invented if heartache is an accompaniment to it.. sigh
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