We do not need to go out to find love; rather, we need to be still and let love discover us.
“Love is always patient and kind; love is never boastful or conceited; it is never rude or selfish; it does not take offense, and is not resentful…”
St Paul’s letter to the Corinthians
- Love is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope and to endure whatever comes.
- When you love, you open your life to an Other.
- All your barriers are down.
- Your protective distances collapse.
- This person is given absolute permission to come into the deepest temple of your spirit.
- Your presence and life can become this person’s ground.
- It takes great courage to let someone so near; you let the person become part of you.
- In the sacred kinship of real love two souls are twinned.
Love allows understanding to dawn, and understanding is precious.
- Where you are understood, you are at home.
- Understanding nourishes belonging.
- When you really feel understood, you feel free to release yourself into the trust and shelter of the other person’s soul.
Jesus, as the son of God, is the first Other in this universe; he is the prism of all difference.
- In friendship with him, we enter the tender beauty and affection of the Trinity.
- In the embrace of this eternal friendship, we dare to be free.
Re-source: Reverence
regard or treat with deep respect
All presence depends on consciousness.
- Where there is a Depth of awareness, there is a reverence for presence.
- Where consciousness is dulled, distant, or blind, the presence grows faint and vanishes.
- Consequently, awareness is one of the greatest gifts you can bring to your friendship.
In a world where the computer replaces human encounter and psychology replaces religion, it is no wonder that there is an obsession with relationship.
- Unfortunately, however, “relationship” has become an empty center around the which our lovely hunger forages of our warmth and belonging.
- Much of the public language of intimacy is hollow, and its incessant repetition only betrays the complete absence of intimacy.
- Real intimacy is a sacred experience.
- It never exposes its secret trust and belonging to the voyeuristic eye of a neon culture.
- Real intimacy is of the soul, and the soul is reserved.
All you can ever achieve is a sense of your soul.
- You gain little glimpses of its light, colors, and contours.
- You feel the inspiration of its possibilities and the wonder of its mysteries.
craving and resource from ANUM CARA “A Book of Celtic Wisdom” – John O’Donohue
