Saturday, December 20, 2008

True Love

When the learning or the realisation that you would have acquired over a period of time comes all of a sudden in front of you with a very attractive, appealing name, you wonder... oh! i didn't know that this concept already existed... and that it has a name too... Anyways, it is always good to go through an experince and learn. It leaves you enriched.
I got a similar feeling when I was reading Eleven Minutes. I cannot put the thoughts of Maria across better than how she has recorded in her diary. A leaf from Maria's diary... (My diary too)...
No one owns anything, that everything is an illusion - and that applies to material as well as spiritual things. Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.
And if nothing belongs to me, then there is no point wasting my time looking after things that aren't mine, it is best to live as if today were the first (or last) day of my life...
... All my life, I thought of love as some liknd of an enslavement. Well, freedom only exists when love is present. The person who gives him or herself, the person who feels freest, is the person who love most wholeheartedly. And the person who loves wholeheartedly feels free. In love, no one can harm anyone else, we are responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel. No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That's the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.

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