food for thought
So, what is love, anyway… everybody talks about it… we all want it… don’t we? I can find quotes, and images, books and lengthy dissertations about love – how to get it, how to express it, where to find it, where not to find it… but what is love actually? Here’s one definition:
I looked up the dictionary definition and came up with a short version that seems true to me. Here it is:
Love is a feeling of warm personal attachment, profoundly tender, a feeling in which you find pleasure and receive great benefit from when you give it, and also when you receive it.
And that’s probably why that quote about weird love sounds so true. How profoundly wonderful it is to find someone whose weirdness is compatible with your own. Wouldn’t it right away give you a pleasurable feeling of safety and delight to discover that suddenly you are not alone? And how would you not get attached to that? Of course we love the people whose weirdness is compatible with ours – we love them all the way up until the day we change, or they change… or life splits us apart.
In the Persian culture, everything is encompassed by love and all is for love, starting from loving friends and family, husbands and wives, and eventually reaching the divine love that is the ultimate goal in life. Over seven centuries ago, Sa’di wrote:
The children of Adam are limbs of one body
Having been created of one essence.
When the calamity of time afflicts one limb
The other limbs cannot remain at rest.
If you have no sympathy for the troubles of others
You are not worthy to be called by the name of “man.”
Source: Wikipedia
You may remember the story of how the devil and a friend of his were walking down the street, when they saw ahead of them a man stoop down and pick up something from the ground, look at it, and put it away in his pocket. The friend said to the devil, “What did that man pick up?” “He picked up a piece of Truth,” said the devil. “That is a very bad business for you, then,” said his friend. “Oh, not at all,” the devil replied, “I am going to let him organize it.”
~Krishnamurti
You are pure awareness.
You are not awareness sometimes
and other times not awareness.
The idea that you are only sometimes aware
and sometimes not aware
is itself an idea appearing in unbroken awareness.
Be aware of this.
~Mooji
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