When people would go to Ghandi with spiritual inquiries,
he would say to go to Vinobha.
It stood out that Love is dynamic, it cannot be static.
Same with thought. There is a subtle difference between
thought & opinion as Vinobha puts it, thought seems to come
with awareness of impermanence, and is present for that
moment, whereas opinion is more rooted into time, it is more
fixed.
Paramahansa Yogananda said "The is a fine line between
being open and lack of conviction"
Swami Vivekananda said (paraphrased) "Surely it is a
good thing to be born into a religion, but it is a terrible
thing to die in one"
My mother said "Your real wealth is not something which
you cannot take with you after you die. You real wealth is
something that no one can take away from you, your
knowledge, your spirituality"
A quote from a woman that has worked with people living
on the streets for much of her life "I have strong
opinions, and I have worked really hard to get them"
Being open once meant to me having much which is kept
closed, with a small open doorway into it. A key difference
into stepping into greater openness is a feeling of
vulnerability .. and yet a sense of greater liberation.
If you really love another person, you will also end up
doing quite a lot of thinking of what it must be like to be
them.
My practice on how to Love others, is to focus on the
life within them which is the same as mine, regardless of
whatever differing opinions we may have.
I've noticed when others have differing opinions on
something I am secure about within myself, it doesn't phase me.
But I get irritated when someone disagrees on something I
am not so sure of.
In my experience, the only times people are willing to
change their opinion is when they get to a point of feeling
about the topic.
Most of the time when we feel something, it is not
actually a new feeling, but a trigger from some past
conditioning.
Can love be rationalized?
The root of rationalization is the word 'ratio', which
means, comparing something to another. Can uncondiotional
love be put in ratio? Is it then still unconditional.
What does it mean to be in Love? A friend once
observed:
1) There is this Love
2) I am in it
3) You are here with me
How can one convey to another that they are not coming
from an argumentative and opinionated mode?
Stillness
Within my own being from observation, the link between
Love & thought is sound.
Why does a baby feel love for it's mother?
In response, a poem from Pavi:
My Answer.
For those of you who wonder why
the sky is blue and placed sky-high
For those of you who want to know
how the stream knows where to go
And why the cow has just two horns
and why the nights turn into morns
Listen and I will tell you:
On Jun 12, 2006 Nipun wrote :
My Answer.
For those of you who wonder why
the sky is blue and placed sky-high
For those of you who want to know
how the stream knows where to go
And why the cow has just two horns
and why the nights turn into morns
Listen and I will tell you:
I don't know.