"Love"


It is a mystery why we fall in love. It is a mystery how it happens. It is a mystery when it comes. It is a mystery why some loves grow and it is a mystery why some loves fail.. You can analyze this mystery why some loves fail. You can analyze this mystery and look for reasons and causes, but you will never do any more than take the live out of the experience. Love is more than some of the interest and attractions and commonalitites that two people share. And just as life itself it is a gift that comes and goes in its time, the coming of love must be taken as an untathomable gift that cannot be questioned in its ways.

Too often, when love comes to people, they try to grasp the love and hold it to them, refusing to see that it is a gift freely given and a gift that just greely moves away. When they fall out of love, or the person they love feels the spirit of love leving, they try desperately to reclaim the love that is love rather accepting the gift for what it was.
They want answers where there are no answers. They want to know what is wrong with the, or they try to get their lover to change, thinking that if some small thin were different love would bloom again. They blame their circumstances. They blame each other. They try anything to give meaning to what has happened. But there is no meaning beyond love itself, and until they accept its own musterious ways they live in a sea of misery.
You need to treat what love brings with you with kindness. If you find yourself in love with someone who does not love you. be gentle with yourself. There is nothing wrong with you. Love just didn't choose to rest in the other person's heart. If you find someone else in love with you toward whom you feel no love, feel honored that love came at your door, but gently refuse the gift you cannot return. Do not take advantage, do not cause pain. How you deal with love is how love with deal with you, and all our hearts feel the same pains and joys, evene if our lives and way are very different.

If you fall in love with another who falls in love with you, and then love chooses to leave, do not try to reclaim is or assess blame. Let it go. There is a reason and there is a meaning. You will know it in time, but time itself will choose the moment. Remember this and keep it in you heart. You don;t choose love. Love chooses you. All you can really do is accept if for all its mystery when it comes into your live. Feel the way it fills you to overflowing, then reach out and give it away. Give it to others who seem poor in spirit. Give it to the world around you in any way you can.
Love has its own time, itsown season for coming and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it or reason it into staying. If it chooses to leave, from your heart or from the heart of your love, there is nothing you can do and nothing you should do. Be glad that it came to live for a moment in your life. If you keep your hehart open, it will surely come again.

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