This Thing called love
It cries , In a cradle all night
It swings , It jives
It shakes all over like a jelly fish
- Freddie Mercury
A few days ago I was talking with a friend about.......of all things........the subject of love. I never would have thought I would write a post on this subject, but I guess you never know. I am thankful for our discussion because I have learned quite a lot. The main thing I learned is that too many people are afraid of love. Many people will jump out of planes, go white-water rafting, ride the biggest roller coasters in the world and stuff like that, and not be intimidated at all. But mention the word love and they become petrified and clueless. I believe people are afraid of and don't understand love because they are afraid of and don't understand themselves. Please don't think I am trying to say I am a love expert because I am far from it. I'm just pondering a bit here. Many people mistake love for weakness when in reality I truly believe that love is a strength. Maybe that's the reason why in general, females may be stronger than males, as many so-called love experts have claimed. I tried to explain to my friend that love is nothing to be ashamed of. I tried to tell her that it's not silly to play with love, to do different things with it, like a child would play with clay or something. Paul McCartney surly doesn't think love is silly when he writes :
It cries , In a cradle all night
It swings , It jives
It shakes all over like a jelly fish
- Freddie Mercury
A few days ago I was talking with a friend about.......of all things........the subject of love. I never would have thought I would write a post on this subject, but I guess you never know. I am thankful for our discussion because I have learned quite a lot. The main thing I learned is that too many people are afraid of love. Many people will jump out of planes, go white-water rafting, ride the biggest roller coasters in the world and stuff like that, and not be intimidated at all. But mention the word love and they become petrified and clueless. I believe people are afraid of and don't understand love because they are afraid of and don't understand themselves. Please don't think I am trying to say I am a love expert because I am far from it. I'm just pondering a bit here. Many people mistake love for weakness when in reality I truly believe that love is a strength. Maybe that's the reason why in general, females may be stronger than males, as many so-called love experts have claimed. I tried to explain to my friend that love is nothing to be ashamed of. I tried to tell her that it's not silly to play with love, to do different things with it, like a child would play with clay or something. Paul McCartney surly doesn't think love is silly when he writes :
Love doesn't come in a minute
Sometimes it doesn't come at all
I only know that when I'm in it
Love isn't silly...
Love isn't silly at all
Sometimes it doesn't come at all
I only know that when I'm in it
Love isn't silly...
Love isn't silly at all
England Dan writes that " Love is the answer". Jimi Hendrix said "When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will live in peace". Millions of songs and poems have been written about love but judging by the way the world is today, these artists and poets have not made that much of an influence in transforming atmospheric energy into loving energy. I suppose it's too 'sticky' and 'gooey' for people to be comfortable with love...so I guess humanity as a whole will keep running and hiding from it while the poets, artists, and priests keep profiting from a seeming fairy-tale. It would not surprise me if some day it will be against the law to love someone. It is already starting to slowly happen. The world is turning love into a crime.
Some people spend their whole lives running away from love...from the "center within". Even in the rare cases when people feel they are expressing love, they are mistaking the periphery for the center.......the facade for the pure. The enlightened spiritual guru Osho said that if you love someone on the periphery you will then also hate that person on the polar peripheral position, but if that love comes from within the center, beyond polarity, then it is bliss. People who run away from love are running away from themselves. They have lost their center. After all, isn't the ultimate depth of our core being (our soul) comprised of love.
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So go ahead...take a chance... make someones day a beautiful one by telling or expressing to them you love them.......but before you do, check your local laws and make sure it's not a crime.
4 comments:
First of all Bravo, Master Nicola, some true wisdom radiates...finally.
However I do feel you an expert on Love, you of all people are very stingy with your love and attention for the simple fact that you were not about to give it to just anyone
. Your cautiousness allows the people you truly love to know you are genuine.
As far as your friend this person has to love themselves before they can trust anyone else. Madam B being the person who loves everyone because I love fault as much as accomplishment, I am one of the lucky ones.
Jumping out of an airplane and trusting yourself to pull the rip cord at the right time exhibits self love, so trusting yourself to spend time with someone else is the same, understand your own emotional and physical ( that’s another website)boundaries and know when to say when. This lesson is done in baby steps, not an overnight conquest although those are fun too will bring your friend to learn to love. Yourself and others will love you if you give off a creepy desperate vibe that is no good!
Spend some time with yourself Person who is unsure how to start, go to coffee shops, real coffee shops, not the one TO BE SEEN IN and watch how others do it. Don’t say anything observe enjoy the interaction it can be intoxicating. If someone approaches you and that may just happen, shake their hand and thank them for the attention and ask that they excuse themselves YOU are on a mission, to learn. Get in touch with what makes You happy. Find yourself in public places and gauge what stimulates YOUR senses. When you are true to yourself your true Self will show,. If Master Nicola can surrender anyone can.
Madam B
Hello Madam B " The Love Guru" -
WOW !!!! There is no way I can reply to all your relevent points because as you said, it would take a web site. If you can accept fault and accomplishment and still hold the same vibrational position, then you are not only lucky but also blessed. Not many can do it, and I do belive that you can. Thank you VERY much for your insights. I am a bit shamed at not being able to express myself the way you do. Have a great day.
FROM OSHO WITH LOVE -
The future of Humanity
"Come back...silently, gracefully,
without any hurry.
Keep hold of the consciousness
and the experience you have reached, because you have to keep it like an undercurrent, twenty-four hours so that every act reflects your consciousness,
your compassion, your love, your meditation.
It is not something to be done for a few minutes and be finished with.
It is SOMETHING that has to become your very breathing, your very heartbeat.
Only then there is a possibility for a future humanity, for a new man whose mind will not be destructive, whose earth will not be divided into nations, whose whole energy will be devoted to making life as rich, as blissful, as peaceful, as loving, as the poets have always dreamed of, and only few mystics have experienced.
Meditation is the way in, it is the way to wake up the master who can control the mind, who can chain the mind, who can use the mind in the service of greater values of truth and beauty and love and joy."
OSHO - Turning in.
Kind regards,
P & S
P & S
Thank you for the Osho words. He very obviously was not afraid or intimidated by love. He had volumes and volumes and volumes to say about love. He says that love should become part of your every breath and heartbeat, yet most people find it difficult to express it even vocally, let alone by heart or breath. One person I know even thinks it is strange to express love when saying goodbyes after a phone conversation. Maybe they'll read your response and see how silly they really are to think this way. Maybe they will start looking deeper into Osho. Your response may help someone who is "lost in love". Thanks again.
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