Walking the Path...of Magical Moments
To three friends who will meet again in 10 years` time.
And the question once again arises: what is Love? What is it to fall in Love? What is it to be in Love? What is it to know Love?
The same philophers, with their stomachs full of a plethora of oriental delicatesens, debating one more issue...
Different ages, different life styles, different outlooks on Life, different past experiences shaping opinions and words and all coming together during priceless moments of verbal (but with mouths full) debate.
What is Love? What is it to fall in Love? What is it to be in Love? What is it to know Love?
How can one be in Love after only knowing someone else for a couple of days?
Can one Love more than one person at a time?
Why can the be a space of several years between experiences of deep meaningfull Love?
Despite there being different definitions we decided to debate one which goes as follows: "falling in Love" is easy to happen but to "be in Love" requires a whole lifetime of sharing.
One need not agree with such definition but understand its basis.
"Love", following that definition, is comparable to "enlightenment"- an ideal towards which you walk, most people do not achieve it, the vast majority don`t even dare start the path and the majority of those quit from that path early on.
The question then would be: "how do you choose the person with whom you want to walk that path?"
Many methods were debated and yet... all those are forms of the essence. In other words: all ways of choosing the person are based on your preferences- what else could they be based on?! Only a non-choice would be free of your personal preferences.
Should one have them (the preferences)? Should one try to eliminate them? Should one ignore them? ... in a way these are all forms of the essence. If one gets to the point where he is aware of his preferences thenthat is already a major step.
As long as you embrace the full person you will always walk the path towards Love... and a person is so much more than just their preferences.
And the question once again arises: what is Love? What is it to fall in Love? What is it to be in Love? What is it to know Love?
The same philophers, with their stomachs full of a plethora of oriental delicatesens, debating one more issue...
Different ages, different life styles, different outlooks on Life, different past experiences shaping opinions and words and all coming together during priceless moments of verbal (but with mouths full) debate.
What is Love? What is it to fall in Love? What is it to be in Love? What is it to know Love?
How can one be in Love after only knowing someone else for a couple of days?
Can one Love more than one person at a time?
Why can the be a space of several years between experiences of deep meaningfull Love?
Despite there being different definitions we decided to debate one which goes as follows: "falling in Love" is easy to happen but to "be in Love" requires a whole lifetime of sharing.
One need not agree with such definition but understand its basis.
"Love", following that definition, is comparable to "enlightenment"- an ideal towards which you walk, most people do not achieve it, the vast majority don`t even dare start the path and the majority of those quit from that path early on.
The question then would be: "how do you choose the person with whom you want to walk that path?"
Many methods were debated and yet... all those are forms of the essence. In other words: all ways of choosing the person are based on your preferences- what else could they be based on?! Only a non-choice would be free of your personal preferences.
Should one have them (the preferences)? Should one try to eliminate them? Should one ignore them? ... in a way these are all forms of the essence. If one gets to the point where he is aware of his preferences thenthat is already a major step.
As long as you embrace the full person you will always walk the path towards Love... and a person is so much more than just their preferences.
posted by dr. plim @ 12:23 PM
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