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| Bettina F. / pixelio.de |
Our ideas about love can be sorted in
two categories. There is a love that transcends birth and death. God
can never die. The essence of being will never die either. On the
other hand, beauty will pass. Where there is happiness, there must be
suffering as well. Trust is impermanent; maybe we trust one person
today, but tomorrow we won't trust him or her anymore. When I am
satisfied, I have enough, I might want more after a short time.
There are two categories of love. We
can call these two kinds of love „deep love“ and „true love“.
Deep love can grow, it can become deeper over time. True love is
already there. God is already there. The essence of our being is
already there. When we are breathing in and out, all trees are
breathing with us, the whole universe is breathing with us. We are
already in a flow.
In order to arrive at true love, we
have to cultivate deep love first. I would like to explain an example
about deep love. In our life, we have relationships with other
people, for example with our friends or with our wife or husband.
Here we speak about all relationships in our daily life. The love
that occurs in our relationships needs to be cultivated. We have to
take care of this love, so it can develop. In true love, this is
different. True love is the love that we have for God. We flow with
the river of life. In this love, we dwell in freedom. We are fully
present in the here and now. In this love, there is always peace.
True creativity also arises from this love. In this love, there is
always respect; it respects even simple things like a small flower or
a ray of sunlight.
