Swami Chidanand Saraswatiji
(https://mailchi.mp/parmarth/motivation-mondays-content-to-love)
Across the world, people spend billions of dollars each year on cards, chocolates, flowers, balloons, candle-lit dinners and other material things to express LOVE.
However, we often miss what LOVE actually is.
What is true LOVE?
True LOVE is something that cannot be bought, bribed, begged, manipulated or forced.
It can only blossom from deep within the heart.
LOVE is simultaneously the purest and one of the most complex emotions we find.
True LOVE at its purest is just that – pure, true and LOVE.
It is unpolluted, untainted, unencumbered by desires, expectations, needs or wants.
LOVE is content just to LOVE.
As Khalil Gibran says, ‘LOVE has no other desire but to fulfill itself.’
LOVE needs no reciprocity.
LOVE needs no appreciation.
LOVE loves for the very sake of loving; loving is its own reward.
LOVE dissolves the very borders and boundaries of Who You Are as you melt into its vast ocean.
LOVE takes you from time to timelessness, from separation to Divine Union.
LOVE is the sunshine which coaxes open the petals of the flower.
LOVE is the water that causes the seed to sprout.
LOVE causes those who LOVE, whether they are people or flowers, to blossom and grow.
Take the opportunity not merely to eat chocolates or enjoy a candle-lit dinner from a loved one, but to truly find the source of pure, Divine LOVE within you – the LOVE which asks nothing in return, the LOVE which is content just to LOVE.
– Swami Chidanand Saraswatiji
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Tony Cicoria’s explanation below of how LOVE & Peace feel,
at 12:12, in his near death, is the best explanation,
closest to what it’s like for me.
💛HAPPY LOVE Day💚
💙Everyone💙