Loving after loving

This overwhelming love... to the point that you lose your mind, and you don't know what to say anymore.

Beautiful feeling, exalting drug. But when the feeling isn't there anymore - and it will vanish now and then - does one keep loving ?

Will the man who married the sweetest woman still love her when she unleashes her furor on him ? Will the woman who fell in love with the strongest and most comforting man still love him when he is weak ?

When the feeling is gone, what remains of your love ?

If anything remains, then it is a will, a choice to love.

And if nothing remains, don't you then depend entirely on your feelings to live ? Are you not a slave to the least emotion ?

And don't know that emotions are unstable, misleading, intoxicating, chaotic ? Do you really want to build your life on such quicksand ?

Love is an attitude

Love is not a thought, an action, or a feeling.

It is the source of loving thoughts, loving actions, and love feelings, not their consequence.

It's an attitude, a way of life.

Be loving.

Love is irresistible

Everybody wants to be loved.

Completely, perfectly.

Everybody wants to know love, but for that one has to be vulnerable. And since one rushes for the first thing which more or less looks like love, one gets hurt.

One can end up putting up walls, so as to never be vulnerable again, but without vulnerability, true love is not possible.

Love, showed with patience, kindness, perseverance, boldness and vulnerability, will bring down those walls.

Love is irresistible, because you want it, and as much as you want it.

Love is incarnate

Love doesn't work from far away, love isn't distant. Love demands incarnation. It demands to live what others live, to feel what they feel, to become one of them, so we can show them love - help them, serve them.

Go to some poor country, and tell people you wanna help them. They'll tell you : oh, you come from your rich country and you want to help us for some time, and then you'll leave. They all leave. You don't even bring your wife and kids here, because you know this is a shit hole. You build a school and tell us to send our kids there, but you wouldn't send yours there. You tell us to try to live here and that better days will come, you give us food and speak hopeful words, but tomorrow you're gone, because there is no hope.

So you need to go and live there for the rest of your life. You need to bring your wife and kids with you - even if that means they could get killed, raped, kidnapped and drug-forced into sex slavery or child soldier gangs. You need to go and live as a local, so that people know you're here to stay, to show them love. Love demands everything you have to give, it demands your life - not to give, but to dedicate.