I was reading about Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and Swami vivekananda since few days I've come across this piece of information in one of his writings. It talks about how important Love is and how can you keep it alive.
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"I once had a friend who grew to be very close to me. Once when we were sitting at the edge of a swimming pool, she filled the palm of her hand with some water and held it before me, and said this:
"You see this water carefully contained on my hand? It symbolizes Love."
This was how I saw it:
As long as you keep your hand caringly open and allow it to remain there, it will always be there. However, if you attempt to close your fingers round it and try to posses it, it will spill through the first cracks it finds. This is the greatest mistake that people do when they meet love...they try to posses it, they demand, they expect... and just like the later spilling out of your hand, love will retrieve from you . For love is meant to be free, you cannot change its nature. If there are people you love, allow them to be free beings.
Give and don't expect.
Advise, but don't order.
Ask, but never demand.
It might sound simple, but it is a lesson that may take a lifetime to truly practice. It is the secret to true love. To truly practice it, you must sincerely feel no expectations from those who you love, and yet an unconditional caring.
Poetry of Vivekananda
All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction.
Love is therefore the only law of life.
He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying.
Therefore love for love's sake,
because it is law of life, just as you breathe to live.
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What an amazing piece of writing. It truly takes a lifetime to practice this for many of us. Hope all of us realize it much faster and be able to achieve it too.
My wife says this is the best article I have written so far as its an extract and not exactly what I wrote ;-) hahahahahaha....
She also had some golden words about how to look at it. Once you read the article and think "I dont expect or I dont order or I dont demand anyone. Why does everyone behave with me the other way ?" If we think in those lines, then we have not really understood what is said here.
Passing thought... Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take; but by the moments that take our breath away.....
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