About Love
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If you find yourself in
love with someone who does not
love you, be gentle with yourself. There is nothing wrong
with you. Love just didn't
choose to rest in the other person's heart.
If you find someone else in love with you and you don't
love him/her, feel honoured that
love came and called at your
door, but gently refuse the gift you cannot return. Do not
take advantage, do not cause pain.
How you deal with
love is how you deal with you,
and all our hearts feel the same pains and joys, even if our
lives and ways are different.
If you fall in
love with another, and he/she
falls in love with you, and then
love chooses to leave, do not try to reclaim it or to assess
blame, let it go. There is a reason and there is a meaning.
You will know in time
The first blush of new
love is filled to overflowing,
but as their love cools, they revert to seeing their
love as need. They cease to be
someone who generates love and
instead become someone who seeks love.
They forget that the secret of love
is that it is a gift,
and that it can be made to grow only by giving it away
Remember this, and keep it
to your heart. Love has its own
time, its own seasons, and its own reason for coming and
going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it, or reason it into
saying. You can only embrace it when it arrives and give it
away when it comes to you. But if
it chooses to leave from your heart or from the heart of your
lover, there is nothing you can do and there is nothing you
should do.
Love always has been and always
will be a mystery. Be glad that it came to live for a moment
in your life.