Love.
“to delight. To love is natural. To understand the variations of love is wisdom”
Love is perhaps the most powerful of human emotions. It is also the most overstated and most abused.
We need to let love be as simple as the word indicates. It is as simple as the beating of our hearts. It is expressed as easily as an embrace.
Many people want to interfere with love. Ascetics want to deny it. Perverts want to distort it. Kings want allegiance for it. Merchants want to sell it. Poets want inspiration from it. We need none of this for our hearts to beat or for our hands to reach out.
Most people would agree that love is important to them. Yet it is also one of the most vexing preoccupations in many lives. People suffer disappointments and think this is the fault of love. It isn’t. Disappointments have to do with things not being perfect, with things not matching. That happens. It’s hard to get things to match, even some of the time. But that has nothing to do with love. Love is all about continuing to try to get things to match. If you love, you’ll continue to do that, even if that sometimes means sacrifice on your part. That’s all right. Hurt and pain come as part of life. No one is exempt from it. But that is no reason not to love.
Suffering accompanies life, but love is affirmation.
Source: 365 Tao, by Den-Ming Dao.
