The spirit of love

Love’s destination, like the Kingdom of Heaven, is an inner destination. We do not necessarily have to travel to China to get to it. It is to be found right here, in a warm embrace with the truth. I am content, today, to be in love with love. Love others as you would wish them to love you. Once we have taken care of our basic necessities, the only virtue or skill that we need is the virtue or skill to love. In the beginning was the word, and the word was love.We will never be truly happy until we learn how to truly love. We will never learn what we are here on this earth to learn until, first of all, we are clear about what we are here to learn. We are here to learn how to truly love. We can only turn the world into a loving place by loving ourselves. We can only turn the world into a loving place by transforming ourselves into lovers. We cannot make people love us by hating them. We can only make them love us by loving them. This is a paraphrasing of the words of an ancient sage and lover.

Tarek
2007