When love awakens in your life, it is like a rebirth, a new beginning.
- When love awakens in your life, in the night of your heart, it is like the dawn breaking within you.
- where before there was anonymity, is courage
- where before in your life there was awkwardness, now there is rhythm of grace and gracefulness
- where before you used to be jagged, now you are elegant and in rhythm with your self.
Love begins with paying attention to others, with an act of gracious self-forgetting. This is the condition in which we grow.
- When we love and allow ourselves to be loved, we begin more and more to inhabit the kingdom of the eternal.
- Fear changes into courage, emptiness becomes plenitude, and distance becomes intimacy.
- 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…”
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.
Re-source: Relationship
the way in which two or more concepts, objects, or people are connected, or the state of being connected
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 you 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, “relationship” has become an empty center, hungry of 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.
- Real intimacy is of the soul.
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.
Friendship needs a lot of nurturing. Often people devote their primary attention to the facts of their lives, to their situation, to their work, to their status.
- Most of their energy goes into doing.
- Meister Eckhart writes beautifully about this temptation. He says many people wonder where they should be and what they should do, when in fact they should be more concerned about how to be.
- The love side of your life is the place of greatest tenderness within you.
- In a culture preoccupied with fixities, definites and correspondingly impatient of mystery, it is difficult to step out from the transparency of false light into the more candlelit world of the soul.
You are sent here to learn to love and to receive love. The greatest gift new love brings into your life is the awakening to the hidden love within.
- You are now able to come close to the other, not out of need or with the wearying apparatus of projection, but out of genuine intimacy, affinity, and belonging.
- This makes you independent. It is a freedom. Love should make you free.
- You become free of the hungry, blistering need with which you continually reach out to scrape affirmation, respect, and significance for yourself from things and people outside yourself.
- In Buddhist tradition, your Kalyana-mitra (your noble friend), will gently and very firmly confront you with your own blindness.
Making love with someone should not be merely a physical or mechanical release. It should engage the spiritual depth that awakens when you enter the soul of another person.
- When two people come together, an ancient circle closes between them. When you really love someone, you shine the light of your soul on the beloved.
- When you send that love out from the bountifulness of your own love, it reaches other people.
- This love is the deepest power of prayer.
- Prayer is the act and presence of sending this light from the bountifulness of your love to other people to heal, free, and bless them.
The more love you give away, the more love you will have.
- Love is the source, center, and destiny of experience.
craving and resource from “ANAM CARA”- A Book of Celtic Wisdom – by John O’Donohue