Love Like Water
Amar como el Agua por Mark Nepo
El agua en su clara suavidad rellena cualquier agujero que encuentra. No duda ni es recelosa. No dice que esta hondonada es demasiado profunda o ese campo está demasiado abierto. Como el agua, el milagro del amor es que cubre todo lo que toca, haciendo que lo que toca crezca mientras no deja rastro de su paso.
La mayoría de las cosas se rompen en lugar de transformarse porque se resisten. El silencioso milagro del amor es que sin nuestra interferencia, él, como el agua, acepta lo que le toca o le llega o se le da, abrazándolo completamente.
Por supuesto, somos humanos y nos sentimos fácilmente heridos si no corresponden nuestro amor o si nos aman pobremente. Pero gastamos demasiada energía de la vida deliberando quien y qué será merecedor de nuestro amor, cuando en el sentido más profundo y más elemental, estas elecciones no están en nuestra mano, como no está en manos de la lluvia elegir dónde caer.
La verdad es que, cuanto más dejamos que el amor fluya, más tenemos para amar. Este es el brillo interior que sabi@s y sant@s de todas las edades parecen compartir: impregnan todas las cosas ante ell@s de su amor; no solo la gente, también los pájaros y las rocas y las flores y el aire.
Debajo de tantas elecciones que tenemos que hacer, el amor, como el agua, fluye de vuelta al mundo a través de nosotr@s. Este es el gran secreto al alcance de todos nosotr@s. Sin embargo en algún lugar se ha creído equivocadamente que retener el amor hará que cese el dolor. Es justo al contrario. Como el agua empapa cicatrices, el amor alivia nuestras heridas. Si estamos abiertos a ello, el amor aceptará la piedra lanzada con ira, y nuestras lágrimas perderán algo de su abrasión en el gran océano de las lágrimas, y la flecha liberada al fondo del río perderá su objetivo. Sólo el amor que no espera nada a cambio puede suavizar el sentido del sufrimiento.
Mark Nepo es un poeta, professor, cuentacuentos y autor del bestseller número uno del New York Times: ‘El libro del despertar”. Este extracto está tomado del libro “El despertar”.
Texto traducido por María Ayala.
Mark Nepo is a poet, teacher, storyteller and author of the New York Times #1 bestseller, The Book of Awakening. This excerpt is taken from The Book of Awakening.
SEED QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION: What does loving like water mean to you? Can you share an experience of a time you felt or received such a love? What practice helps you develop the ability to love like this?
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On Jun 24, 2022 Sherry Molina wrote :
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On May 21, 2018 Sarah wrote :
I am sure water is the closest synonym of life. We are searching for New Earth planets and the main characteristic by which we define whether we wanna discover more is water on these planets. Water is a universal source.
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On Oct 26, 2015 Pluto178 wrote :
Water is hidden in everything for everything surely contains some water.........it's the Holy Grail the hidden that we seek to find............sometimes we cannot see something but we know its there and eventually we fail to see it. Water is always welcome. x
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On Sep 8, 2015 Sunil, Bangalore wrote :
Love is not an abstract term. But a concrete one.When it flows meaning when you practice it with full life force ( heart & soul) it becomes tangible. You can indeed experience it like water.
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On Sep 8, 2015 Sidney DeKoven wrote :
Lately I see love as an attitude, a choice. When I put on a smiling, happy face, that dispels any negativity in my system and I'm open to send love to all of creation. Maybe it's just tricking the negative egoic mind into believing that I'm happy but it works. Water is a miracle in all forms, raindrops,rivers , tears occupying 70% of the surface of the earth. I think, Love, the greatest miracle of all occupies 100% of the universe. Anything is possible when one opens oneself to Love. Perhaps the greatest Love of all is to , As Christ said, Love those that despise you. For it is then we forget ourselves. And Meher Baba said : when we forget ourselves completely, we find God.
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On Sep 7, 2015 Burton Danet wrote :
Water = Life
Life = Living Independently For Ever
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On Sep 4, 2015 david doane wrote :
Love, like water, gets into every nook and cranny, unselectively affecting everything it touches. We need water to survive; we may not need love to survive, but it certainly helps us to grow and thrive. Like water, love expects nothing in return. Like with water, there's enough love to go around, but we better treasure it and use it wisely, not pollute and misuse it. Unlike water, which is a limited commodity, love is limitless. Love is like muscle, becoming larger and stronger with use; love isn't like a bar of soap that diminishes with use. When I have been loved, I felt that my real self was welcome and valued, and I was open. I feel pleased and privileged when someone responds in that way to me. As I become older, and maybe wiser, I have a more generalized love/compassion, which pleases me very much. Having been loved and being loved have probably helped me the most to develop the ability to love.
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