Comments on: The third cardinal virtue: Love

By: Chris Marie Dumasis

Chris Marie Dumasis — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:06:11 +0000

Love will always be coupled with sacrifice. For if we only love to be happy with this perfect person, then the truest essence of it~~being unconditional will negate that fact.

By: Ndaambe

Ndaambe — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:15:41 +0000

A meditation on love and its various incarnations
We risk everything for a chance at real love…

Love makes the world go round. Life will never be the same. Until it is. Sort of.

Love isn’t pure after it’s been tainted, cause love can alternatively flip the world upside-down.

Loving couples can fall headlong into possessiveness, jealousy and rage; trapping you in the tangled emotions founded in that space between love and goodbye.

And how do you choose between family and the love of your life? But, why should you have to?

Emotions can be raw and messy, and as relationships change, who gets the better part of the bargain?

Love reflections for anyone with an appetite for love………..

By: Hedia Lina

Hedia Lina — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:34:16 +0000

To quote Mr. Coelho ” Love simply is”

By: Mika

Mika — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:04:59 +0000

Amo ergo sum – I love therefore I am.

I believe love – agape – is the meaning of life. When all love dies in our heart, all the rooms of our soul turn dark. Love is the fuel of life. Love is what brings us faith, love is what gives us hope. Love for humanity, love for life, love for the family. It is what fills us with strength and it is what makes us capable of making a change for the better. In ourselves as well as the world.

By: Roberta

Roberta — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:54:00 +0000

Amor: desejar de verdade a alguem aquilo que lá no fundo vc desejaria somente a si mesmo.

By: mischitine

mischitine — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 08:41:47 +0000

is it allowed to expose one’s personal experience to anyone? (as from your exercises written and publicly revealed at the pilgrimage?) esoteric rituals are strictly not to be told to anyone so casually, as i have been told. with all due respect, i would like to know if you’re actually allowed or have you already been excommunicated. as an apprentice, i’m beginning to wonder whether it is right to read your book, or i shouldn’t because it might alter my belief. it might be an angelic facade of something bad, and be unconsciously misled. please be kind enough to tell. thank you.

By: LEECA

LEECA — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 23:54:57 +0000

Whilst in deep despair last year after the loss of my father, I understood the meaning of agape. I called upon God to explain why I am here… My own mind answered me the God is Love. That is to say, that the entity which we perceive to be God is manifested in Love. The only thing that matters…

By: PeregrinaMom

PeregrinaMom — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 06:44:14 +0000

Estimado Sr. Coelho,

Quiza, la mejor manifestacion en este mundo es el amor de una madre hacia su hijo/a. Lo da todo, arriesga todo, no espera nada para si mas la sonrisa de felicidad y satisfaccion del hijo/a. Digamelo a mi… y cuando creo que no puedo amarles mas, me despierto la manana siguiente, amandoles aun mas.

Love…….. always and in ALL ways.

By: Savita Vega

Savita Vega — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 03:59:58 +0000

A few of my favorite definitions, collected over the years:

“There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear….
the one who fears is not made perfect in love.”
–1 John 4:18

“If we can be brave in love, we can be brave with most other endeavors. Wholeness in life comes from this Courage to Love, and all the wonders and difficulties we experience in Love.”
Shelly Durrell
Healing the Fisher King

“To fall in love means that one must submit, however temporarily…to a state of being not subject to control or governance.”
Chela Sandoval
Methodology of the Oppressed

This last is my favorite, as it explains, I think, why loving is the scariest thing most of us will ever do in our lives. It is hard to step out beyond the boundaries of the known world–like an explorer insisting on a round world when the only available map depicts it as flat. So too is it alarming to the very core of one’s soul to let go of the obsession to be in control, to let go and just be…in love.