The right to love

It is our right to love all beings. If we are very strong, it will be difficult for anyone to deprive us of this right. If we are weak and have not made a determined commitment to love, then it would indeed be easy to persuade us to give up this right. True love is a priceless gift beyond which there is no other. There are galaxies of love within this very heart of ours, waiting to be discovered. There are flower-fields of love within this very heart of ours, waiting to be discovered. There is a whole universe of love within this very heart of ours, waiting to be discovered.Love is infinite. But we must take all of our hearts and all of our thoughts into that infinity if we wish to truly appreciate it. We must learn never to neglect that infinity of love that is within us.Life is made up of an infinitude of moments. We may as well make them loving moments, and turn ourselves into true lovers.Love needs to express herself in many ways, not just one way. People who limit themselves to expressing love only in this or that way are not allowing love to breathe fully and completely within them. Love needs to be given total liberty to breathe.Love is a queendom having its own dimensions and boundaries. It is a heavenly queendom. You cannot force your way into that queendom any more than you can force someone to love you. All you can do is to work lovingly, work lovingly to create the very conditions that would allow true love to flower.We each have to look for and find the conditions that are ideal for love to flourish within our being. Others can help us. Yet the understanding we reach is an understanding that has to take root deeply within our hearts in order to be so firmly established that it becomes a part and parcel of our being. Then we have to struggle to ensure that the tree of our love is always watered and properly nourished, and to keep our tree of love protected against all possible harm to its being. Having discovered the beauty and magic and magnificence of the tree of our love, it becomes natural for us to seek to protect it as a mother would her only child - to make every sacrifice to ensure that all the other trees of our being do not encroach upon the sacred space of our most sacred tree.When we are tired of loving we are tired of living. If we are young enough or old enough to breathe, we are also old enough or young enough to love.Without love there can be no peace. Without love the doves of peace cannot fly.Love knows no boundaries to her being, because it is the very heart of our universe, a universe which knows no boundaries to her being, neither in time nor space. And love is the glue which sticks this universe together. It is also the essence of the very stuff out of which eternal transformations of beauty arise - for what is the discovery of beauty other than the discovery of new harmonies brought together by love? The greatest miracle is the miracle of awakening. It is the miracle of the heart’s awakening to love.There is always a proper time and place for loving. The time is now and the place is right here where you are.

Tarek
2007