SEED QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION: What do you understand by the "virtue that rises from the love-spring"? Can you share a personal story that brings out the heart quality? How do you reconcile selfless love with love (acceptance) for oneself?
Words are like a finger that is pointing out something.
By focusing on the finger we completely miss that which it is pointing at.
That is the problem with intellectual discussion.
Love is like and ocean. It sustains life in all its forms.
Humility unbinds the love that we already are. Humility is not thinking less of ourselves. It is thinking of ourselves less.
It is beautiful to realize that love is not only expressed as love , goodness or kindness but also as tolerance, patience, humbleness etc. Loving enough can do wonders, hope we all increase our capacity to love day on day. Amen.
Amen to previous reflections! It's all about Love!
Steven Curtis Chapman's, " When Love Takes You In" (just played on my Pandora station) so beautifully supports this theme.
"When Love (God) takes you home,
Everything changes . . .
The beat of a heart,
Says you belong here . . .
Loneliness ends . . .
A new life begins . . .
When Love takes you in."
Love this . . . Love you!
I understand the author to say that, for as much as we have not experienced the full flow of the river, we all have some access to at least some of its tributaries. We are not completely deprived of patience, endurance, honesty, etc. We are not disconnected from the source as long as we don't give up effort. Not the selfish effort to improve ourselves but the effort to open up and live from the heart. This has to be the axis of our conscious effort. Just about what I needed to hear. Thank you.
Paraphrasing Inayat Khan when asked what is the virtue that rises from the love spring?, he might say something like he said when asked what is Zen,Khan would tell the story of a young fish going to the Queen fish and saying something like: "I hear there is a sea. What is it and where is it? Love is everyone and everything. when one gets rid of his or her ego, one notices they are one with everyone and everything. That is the reconciliation of selfless love with love – – acceptance for oneself.. I must admit that it is easy to say difficult to do since I do not approach that very often. Thank you for the opportunity to respond. Warm and kind regards to everyone and that is like love to and for you all with myself being included in us all.