The true meaning of love one's neighbor is not that
it is a command from God which we are to fulfill,
but that through it and in it we meet God.
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~Martin Buber
WHAT LOVE DOES
Love flows through life like a river, constant, yet ever changing
Love kisses kindness awake
Love delights in spontaneity
Love chases after laughter, yet doesn't hide from tears
Love encourages potential to grow
Love exposes the emptiness of our fears
Love fans a spark of compassion into a flame of understanding
Love graces us with glimpses of eternity
Love greets life with open arms, unprotected, and without pretense
Love heals without effort, because its nature is wholeness
Love hardens resolve, softens resistance
Love includes and inspires
Love leads us down the path of our greatest growth
Love melts complication into simplicity
Love sees what fear closes it eyes to
Love tears down the walls of self-protection, embracing joy and heartache
equally
Love transforms fear into faith
Love manifests through us, rather than happens to us
Love savors every moment
Love sees beneath the masks we wear
Love trusts life to know the way
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A short little story about the mind
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The instrusive mosquitos served for another early lesson
at the ashram. It was the gentle hour of dusk. My guru was
matchlessly interpreting the ancient texts. At his feet ,
I was in perfect peace . A rude mosquito entered the idyl
and competed for my attention. As it dug a poisonous
'hypodermic needle' into my thigh , I automatically raised
an avenging hand.
Reprieve from impending execution !
An opportune memory had come to me of Patanjali's aphorism
on ahimsa (harmlessless).
"Why didn't you finish the job ?"
"Master ! Do you advocate taking life ? "
"No , but in your mind you had already struck the deathblow."
"I don't understand."
"By ahimsa Patanjali meant removal of the desire to kill."
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Paramahamsa Yogananda
Autobiography of a Yogi
