When Simone Weil wrote these inspired words,“Love is not consolation. It is light,” she made clear -- in one sublime statement -- an ineffable, supernal truth: Observer & observed are One...
Find the True Source of Fearless Love...
Love is not so much a bridge between things as it is that which both connects them and, at the same time, shows them to have never been truly apart from one another. The reason we love something, or someone, is because through that union we are enhanced, somehow made to feel more complete through that relationship. However, unlike substances cannot merge. Oil and vinegar may complement one an...
What advice can you give to guide us through the hard times and suffering we experience when going through a heartbreak?...
There is nothing that takes place in life, including all of the ugliness in it, that isn't part of our preparation for discovering within ourselves the eternal ability to transcend what has been disturbed.
Until we can be aware of -- present to -- the fact that the love of the Divine never leaves us -- even when we're full of darkness -- we can never really understand the appearance and purpose of a negative state, let alone how it's possible to die to it, and to ourselves as well.
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One virtually unknown aspect of love - and, in a way, one that is most vital to your inner growth - is found not in correcting the path of others, but rather in allowing them the undisturbed, conflict-free space they must have in order to fully experience the consequences of their own choices.
There is no greater mystery than love...and how it works its invisible ways in and upon the human heart. None may escape its deft effect; even those who deny its existence would have nothing to refute were it not for the presence of this all-encompassing tenderness from whose touch; fearing its embrace; they run to their own destruction.
Most of the popular spiritual/new age/people giving advice on how to manifest the life of your dreams etc, are telling us that we need to imagine and dream and 'think positive thoughts' to be able to manifest the life we deserve. We are told to construct 'dream boards' and to feel the excitement of our desires as though they have already manifested. Can you help me understand this a little bet...