Poetry: When love returns to itself, it is real love
By emptychair
@innertalks (23739)
Australia
February 5, 2020 9:10pm CST
Article Summary:
This article starts with a short poem, then it has a short commentary about love, and how it relates to selfishness.
God's love is never selfish. Selfish love hurts us.
A poem about desires and selfish love
I was full of desires, and selfish love
My vision of love was clouded.
I asked God to refresh my heart,
and love became wholly endowed.
The selfish live only in themselves,
the loving live in all.
It is a tall order for all to fulfill,
but then again, we must love instilled.
The selfish are too selfish to love.
They live only within their own room.
God tries to sweep selfishness out,
but his broom is doomed in such gloom.
Self-involving behaviour is not selfish,
if it rests its head upon love's bed.
We must not make our own bed,
only with sheets, supplied by greed.
Does love yearn to love?
"Love yearns for love. To think of achieving love “on one’s own” is ludicrous."
I read this claim in a book recently, written by the author, Mari Perron, entitled simply, "A Course of Love."
She claims that Jesus Christ dictated to her what to write in this book.
On the other hand, though, God is love.
God has "achieved" love on his own, so why can't we, and yet God must have yearned for love, by his creating souls to love.
Love lives in us all, but the only problem anyone can encounter is that love lives in others too, and when we think our ideas of love are greater than other's ideas, we actually start to shrink our own hold on love.
God's love never shrinks, nor should ours. There is nothing to achieve, just something to lose, if we neglect it by selfish pursuits of other things, other than love.
“Love is not selective, desire is selective. ... When the centre of selfishness is no longer, all desires for pleasure and fear of pain cease; one is no longer interested in being happy; beyond happiness there is pure intensity, inexhaustible energy, the ecstasy of giving from a perennial source.”
The great Indian spiritual master and teacher, Nisargadatta Maharaj, (1897 to 1981) said this.
This agrees with what I have just said too. So, I am in good standing here.
Only selective love hurts, because it then is no longer full love, at all.
Photo Credit: The photo used in this article belongs to the author of this article.
If love hurts, it is because we have hurt ourselves. Real love never hurts.
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2 responses
@innertalks (23739)
• Australia
6 Feb 20
Yes, I think it's true too, but I am talking about spiritual love, not romantic love, which might hurt people at times, if it is laced with more selfishness, than real love.
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@innertalks (23739)
• Australia
6 Feb 20
@amitkokiladitya I often forget to say that, and so some people can misunderstand me sometimes.
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@amitkokiladitya (171988)
• Agra, India
6 Feb 20
@innertalks yes...when we are talking about real love we are actually talking about love which is spiritual
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@Shiva49 (28375)
• Singapore
6 Feb 20
Yes Steve, we are made of the same stuff and when we stray away from love, what we are made of, from deep within hurts and goads us to love that which is common in us and in creation. Our innards begin to wonder at our path and why we go after those that are transient and against the common good, in a way working at cross purposes.
Life is in way like a museum; it is for all to enjoy the sights and sounds and not for us to think and act in such a way that we have a right to possess and spirit away some for our keeps.
True love, that reflects our creators, knows no bounds. Then we are above petty desires, whims, and fancies and then we experience the bliss of coexistence - siva
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@innertalks (23739)
• Australia
6 Feb 20
Brilliant answer/response, beautifully worded, siva.
Love is always honestly living in us, goading us in a way, but more encouraging us to live only from it, and to drop all else.
Only in this way will we be happy, contented, and feel fulfilled in our life, in living it for love alone.
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@Shiva49 (28375)
• Singapore
6 Feb 20
@innertalks Thanks Steve, the prompt to live and breathe love is ever present but our ego, greed, and selfishness lead us astray. The true path of love beckons and implores us; let us make the right choice for our own common good.
It is good that you are also never tired of showing us the true path. God is love as is reflected in the whole creative process; we, the children, should start showing our gratitude for the uncountable blessings - siva
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@innertalks (23739)
• Australia
6 Feb 20
@Shiva49 Thanks, siva.
Love is about the only subject that I like to write about, perhaps about truth, God, spiritualism too, but I always go back to love, as that's the thing I need most to get closer too, and writing about it helps me to do just this.
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