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Love is only a word, until we decide to let it possess us with all its force.
Love is only a word, until someone arrives to give it meaning.
Don't give up. Remember, it's always the last key on the key ring that opens the door.
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Excessive caution destroys the soul and the heart, because living is an act of courage, and an act of courage is always an act of love.
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Never miss an opportunity to show your love, especially to those close to you, because we are always at our most cautious with them for fear of being hurt.
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A rose dreams of enjoying the company of bees, but none appears. The sun asks:
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βYes,β answers the rose, βbut if I close my petals, I will wither and die.
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Love is an act of faith in another person, not an act of surrender.
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Love is only a word, until someone arrives to give it meaning.
Don't give up. Remember, it's always the last key on the key ring that opens the door.
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For those who are not frightened by the solitude, everything will have a different taste.
In solitude, they will discover the love that might otherwise arrive unnoticed.
In solitude, they will understand and respect the love that left them.
In solitude, they will be able to decide whether it is worth asking that lost love to come back or if they should simply let it go and set off along a new path.
In solitude, they will learn that saying βNoβ does not always show a lack of generosity and that saying βYesβ is not always a virtue.
And those who are alone at this moment, need never be frightened by the words of the devil: βYouβre wasting your time.β
Or by the chief demonβs even more potent words: βNo one cares about you.β
The Divine Energy is listening to us when we speak to other people, but also when we are still and silent and able to accept solitude as a blessing.
And when we achieve that harmony, we receive more than we asked for.
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You will be loved and respected only if you love and respect yourself.
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Defeat is for the valiant. Only they will know the honour of losing and the joy of winning
I am not here to tell you that defeat is a part of life: we all know that. Only the defeated know Love. Because it is in the realm of love that we fight our first battles β and generally lose.
I am here to tell you that there are people who have never been defeated.
They are the ones who never fought.
They managed to avoid scars, humiliations, feelings of helplessness, as well as those moments when even warriors doubt the existence of God.ββ
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Love lasts because it changes and not because it stays the same and never faces any challenges.
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only the defeated know LOVE.
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Does a leaf, when it falls from the tree in winter, feel defeated by the cold?
The tree says to the leaf:
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Love transforms, Love heals. But sometimes it lays deadly traps and ends up destroying the person who decided to surrender himself completely.
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Do not seek to be loved at any price, because Love has no price.
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Love does not to be understood. It needs only to be shown.
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solitude is not absence of love, but its complement
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Love rules, but no one knows where it has its throne; in order to know that secret place, you must first submit to Love.
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Love is an act of faith, not an exchange.
Contradictions are what make love grow. Conflicts are what allow love to remain by our side.
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Succes doesn't not come from having one's work recognised by others. It is the fruit of a seed that you lovingly planted.
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Our soul is governed by four invisible forces: love, death, power and time.
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Without solitude, Love will not stay long by your side.
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Love accepts its companion unconditionally and allow each to grow in his or her own way.
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True love, is the love that seduces and will never allow itself to be seduced.
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One of Love's qualities--namely, Forgiveness.
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You will only be loved and respected if you love and respect yourself. Never try to please everyone; if you do, you will be respected by no one.
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Love appears and says: "You think you're heading towards a specific point, but the whole justification for the goal's existence lies in your love for it. Rest a little,but as soon as you can, get up and carry on. Because ever since your goal found out that you were traveling toward it, it has been running to meet you.
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Fate is never unfair to anyone. We are all free to love or hate what we do.
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You will be loved and respected only if you love and respect yourself. Never try to please everyone, if you do, you will be respected by no one.
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Love is an act of faith, not an exchange.
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Loving means being open to miracles, to victories and defeats, to everything that happens each day that was given us to walk upon the face of the Earth.
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Friendship never forgets that its only reason for existing is to love other people.
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Love is only a word, until we decide to let it posses us with all its force. Love is only a word, until someone arrives to give it meaning.
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Love is an act of faith in another pesron, not an act of surrender.
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For most people, generosity consists only in giving, and yet receiving is also an act of love. Allowing someone else to make us happy will make them happy, too.
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Our great goal in life is to love. The rest is silence.
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Success does not come from having one's work recognized by others. It is the fruit of a seed that you lovingly planted.
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We are used to thinking that what we give is the same as what we receive, but people who love, expecting to be loved in return, are wasting their time.
Love is an act of faith, not an exchange.
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Faith shows us that we are never alone.
Transformation helps us to love the mystery.
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Loyalty has its roots in respects, and respect is the fruit of Love.
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Religion teaches that faith and transformation are the only ways of drawing near to God. Faith shows us that we are never alone. Transformation helps us to love the mystery.
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In order to hear Love's words, you must allow Love to approach.
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Love is free and is not ruled by our will or by what we do.
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Sometimes, when loneliness seems about to crush everything, the only way to resist is to keep on loving.
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Love is only a word, until someone arrives to give it meaning.
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For example, two people might be cooking the same meal and using exactly the same ingredients, but one is pouring Love into what he does and the other is merely trying to fill his belly. The result will be completely different, even though Love is not something that can be seen or weighed. The person making the Offering is always rewarded. The more he shares out his affection, the more his affection grows.
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The true lover is not the one who says: "You need to be by my side and I need to take care of you, because we are loyal to each other," but the one who realizes that loyalty must go hand in hand with freedom. And without fear of betrayal, he accepts and respects the other person's dream, trusting in the greater power of Love.
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..and love is not swayed by opinions; love accepts its companion unconditionally and allows each to grow in his or her own way
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Without solitude, Love will not stay long by your side.
Because Love needs to rest, so that it can journey through the heavens and reveal itself in other forms.
Without solitude, no plant or animal can survive, no soil can remain productive, no child can learn about life, no artist can create, no work can grow and be transformed.
Solitude is not the absence of Love, but its complement.
Solitude is not the absence of company, but the moment when our soul is free to speak to us and help us decide what to do with our life.
Therefore, blessed are those who do not fear solitude, who are not afraid of their own company, who are not always desperately looking for something to do, something to amuse themselves with, something to judge.
If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself.
And if you do not know yourself, you will begin to fear the void.
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Solitude is not the absence of Love, but its complement.
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But even in cases of unrequited love there is always the hope that one day it will be requited.
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In solitude, they will discover the love that might otherwise have arrived unnoticed. In solitude, they will understand and respect the love that left them.
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Love appears and says: βYou think youβre heading toward a specific point, but the whole justification for the goalβs existence lies in your love for it. Rest a little, but as soon as you can, get up and carry on. Because ever since your goal found out that you were traveling toward it, it has been running to meet you.
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Suggestions for further reading Karen Armstrong, Jerusalem; Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones; Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha; Deepak Chopra, God: A Story of Revelation; Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet; Lawrence Kushner, Kabbalah: A Love Story; C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity; Krista Tippett, Speaking of Faith; Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now
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The true lover is not the one who says: βYou need to be by my side and I need to take care of you, because we are loyal to each other,β but the one who realizes that loyalty must go hand in hand with freedom. And without fear of betrayal, he accepts and respects the other personβs dream, trusting in the greater power of Love. The
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Wok is the manifestation of love that binds people together.
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True love, however, is the love that seduces and will never allow itself to be seduced.
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Work is the manifestation of love that binds people together.
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Success does not come from having one's work recognized by others. It is the fruit of a seed you lovingly planted. When harvest time arrives, you can say to yourself : ' I succeed
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Through the Offering you are allowing others to love you. And you are teaching others to love through what you offer them.
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Solitude is not the absense of Love, but its complement.
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Just as Love is the divine condition, so solitude is the human condition. And for those who understand the miracle of life, those two states peacefully coexist.
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will is crystalline, their Love is pure, and their steps determined. In moments of doubt or sadness, they never forget: βI am an instrument. Allow me to be an instrument capable of manifesting Your Will.
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Loyalty, love and respect perhaps have never been expounded with such agility like this one βLoyalty has its roots in respect and respect is the fruit of Love, and Love drives out the demons of the imagination β which distrust everything and everyone β and, instead, returns purity to our gazeβ. He cites that βLoyalty can never be imposed by force, fear, insecurity or intimidationβ. βAnd because it is a choice, it will never tolerate betrayal, but will always be generous with mistakesβ.
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You think youβre heading toward a specific point, but the whole justification for the goalβs existence lies in your love for it. Rest a little, but as soon as you can, get up and carry on. Because ever since your goal found out that you were traveling toward it, it has been running to meet you.
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The defeated are those who never fail. Defeat means that we lose a particular battle or war. Failure does not allow us to go on fighting. Defeat comes when we fail to get something we very much want. Failure does not allow us to dream. Its motto is: βExpect nothing and you wonβt be disappointed.β
Defeat ends when we launch into another battle. Failure has no end: it is a lifetime choice. Defeat is for those who, despite their fears, live with enthusiasm and faith. Defeat is for the valiant. Only they will know the honour of losing and the joy of winning.
I am not here to tell you that defeat is part of life: we all know that. Only the defeated know Love. Because it is in the realm of love that we fight our first battles β and generally lose. I am here to tell you that there are people who have never been defeated. They are the ones who never fought.
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And within that cycle there are neither winners nor losers, there are only stages that must be gone through. When the human heart understands this, it is free, able to accept difficult times and not be deceived by moments of glory.
Both will pass. One will succeed the other. And the cycle will continue until we liberate ourselves from the flesh and find the Divine Energy.
Therefore, when the fighter is in the ring β whether by his own choice or because unfathomable destiny has placed him there β may his spirit be filled with joy at the prospect of the fight ahead. If he holds on to his dignity and his honour, then, even if he loses the fight, he will never be defeated, because his soul will remain intact.
And he will blame no one for what is happening to him.
Ever since he fell in love for the first time and was rejected, he has known that this did not put paid to his ability to love.
What is true in love is also true in war.
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Describe the defeated ones,β said a merchant, when he saw that the Copt had finished speaking. And he answered: The defeated are those who never fail. Defeat means that we lose a particular battle or war. Failure does not allow us to go on fighting. Defeat comes when we fail to get something we very much want. Failure does not allow us to dream. Its motto is: βExpect nothing and you wonβt be disappointed.β Defeat ends when we launch into another battle. Failure has no end; it is a lifetime choice. Defeat is for those who, despite their fears, live with enthusiasm and faith. Defeat is for the valiant. Only they will know the honor of losing and the joy of winning. I am not here to tell you that defeat is part of life; we all know that. Only the defeated know Love. Because it is in the realm of Love that we fight our first battlesβand generally lose. I am here to tell you that there are people who have never been defeated. They are the ones who never fought. They managed to avoid scars, humiliations, and feelings of helplessness, as well as those moments when even warriors doubt the existence of God. Such people can say with pride: βI never lost a battle.β On the other hand, they will never be able to say: βI won a battle.β Not that they care. They live in a universe in which they believe they are invulnerable; they close their eyes to injustices and to suffering; they feel safe because they do not have to deal with the daily challenges faced by those who risk stepping out beyond their own boundaries. They have never heard the words βgood-byeβ or βIβve come back. Embrace me with the fervor of someone who, having lost me, has found me again.β Those who were never defeated seem happy and superior, masters of a truth they never had to lift a finger to achieve. They are always on the side of the strong. Theyβre like hyenas, who eat only the leavings of lions. They teach their children: βDonβt get involved in conflicts; youβll only lose. Keep your doubts to yourself and youβll never have any problems. If someone attacks you, donβt get offended or demean yourself by hitting back. There are more important things in life.β In the silence of the night, they fight their imaginary battles: their unrealized dreams, the injustices to which they turned a blind eye, the moments of cowardice they managed to conceal from other peopleβbut not from themselvesβand the love that crossed their path with a sparkle in its eyes, the love God had intended for them, but which they lacked the courage to embrace. And they promise themselves: βTomorrow will be different.β But tomorrow comes and the paralyzing question surfaces in their mind: βWhat if it doesnβt work out?β And so they do nothing. Woe to those who were never beaten! They will never be winners in this life.
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This second type of work we call the Offering. For example, two people might be cooking the same meal and using exactly the same ingredients, but one is pouring Love into what he does and the other is merely trying to fill his belly. The result will be completely different, even though Love is not something that can be seen or weighed. The person making the Offering is always rewarded. The more he shares out his affection, the more his affection grows. When
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He focuses not just on the goal to be reached, but on everything happening around him. He often has to stop because his strength fails him. At such moments, Love appears and says: βYou think youβre heading toward a specific point, but the whole justification for the goalβs existence lies in your love for it. Rest a little, but as soon as you can, get up and carry on. Because ever since your goal found out that you were traveling toward it, it has been running to meet you.
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Because friendship is one of the many faces of Love, and Love is not swayed by opinions; Love accepts its companion unconditionally and allows each to grow in his or her own way.
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Then my neighbor Yakob said:
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Does a leaf, when it falls from the tree in winter, feel defeated by the cold?
The tree says to the leaf: βThatβs the cycle of life. You may think youβre going to die, but you live on in me. Itβs thanks to you that Iβm alive, because I can breathe. Itβs also thanks to you that I have felt loved, because I was able to give shade to the weary traveler. Your sap is in my
sap; we are one thing.β Does a man who spent years preparing to climb the highest mountain in the world feel defeated when, on reaching that mountain, he discovers that nature has cloaked the summit in storm clouds? The man says to the mountain: βYou donβt want me this time, but the weather will change and, one day, I will make it to the top. Meanwhile, youβll still be here waiting for me.β
Does a young man, rejected by his first love, declare that love does not exist? The young man says to himself: βIβll find someone better able to
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