Post St. Valentino! Why
beyond the consumerist connotations that this day holds, gives us an opportunity to reflect on the meaning of love, however you want to conjugate: in couples, between parents and children, between siblings, between friends ...
Someone once said that "sometimes words get sick - the word love is one of them - and we have a duty to heal."
I want to take responsibility to try to restore the original meaning of this word so worn from use, but which never fails to infinite wealth which it bears.
Rather than define it, love must be experienced, witnessed, tried the hard way.
And we do not live only in the ecstasy of the meeting, fall in love suddenly exploding like a volcano, or the beginning of magical encounter, which finally seems to satisfy our hungry hearts.
Love is a feeling of calm, understanding and confidence, is a state of grace, inhabited by moments of joy but also of difficulty, lies on the passage of time, visited by gratitude and nourished with the care of self and other .
Love is a traveler, who never tires of knowing, to experiment, to dare, but in respect for the identity of its guests, their homes, their lives.
" The only way to be a deep knowledge of the act of love, this act than thought, beyond words. It is the daring dip in the experience of union. But to fully understand the act of love, I need to know your loved one psychologically and myself objectively, I see what is in fact abandon the illusions, the picture that I have twisted her. Only by knowing objectively a human being are capable of penetrating the deepest essence of the act of love "
(E. Fromm, The Art of Love )
Love is a journey, not a place.
really know the other is an amazing adventure that never has an end point, because every day life we \u200b\u200bcan give space to unexplored parts of ourselves that those around us can agree or stupor receive as an offense ... but this is necessary.
" When love calls you, follow him,
even though its streets are steep and arduous.
And when his wings enfold you indulge him,
even if the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
[...] in you all this love will carry you to understand the secrets of your hearts, and in that knowledge can become the heart of the fragments of life "
(Khalil Gibran)
Freedom of Love, you can not do otherwise than be myself, because then I salute to the possibility of who is beside me to do the same, giving one another the opportunity to grow and move forward together, step by step, brick by brick, crisis after crisis.
I find the meaning of all this in the words of a traveler than a soul that gave the world masterpieces of words and emotions:
" maybe love is the process by which we bring you gently to yourself "
(Antoine De Saint Exupery)
Love is when you do not expect others to become what I want it to be, but I accompany it gently and present, share, while achieving what is safe, that I may do the same with her.
virginia
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