WHY IS LOVE SO PAINFUL?
Latifa, love is painful because it creates the way for bliss. Love is painful because it transforms; love is mutation. Each transformation is going to be painful because the old has to be left for the new. The old is familiar, secure, safe, the new is absolutely unknown. You will be moving in an uncharted ocean. You cannot use your mind with the new; with the old, the mind is skillful. The mind can function only with the old; with the new, the mind is utterly useless.
Hence, fear arises, and leaving the old, comfortable, safe world, the world of convenience, pain arises. It is the same pain that the child feels when he comes out of the womb of the mother. It is the same pain that the bird feels when he comes out of the egg. It is the same pain that the bird will feel when he will try for the first time to be on the wing.
The fear of the unknown, and the security of the known, the insecurity of the unknown, the unpredictability of the unknown, makes one very much frightened.
And because the transformation is going to be from the self towards a state of no-self, agony is very deep. But you cannot have ecstasy without going through agony. If the gold wants to be purified, it has to pass through fire.
Love is fire.
It is because of the pain of love, millions of people live a loveless life. They too suffer, and their suffering is futile. To suffer in love is not to suffer in vain. To suffer in love is creative; it takes you to higher levels of consciousness. To suffer without love is utterly a waste; it leads you nowhere, it keeps you moving in the same vicious circle.
The man who is without love is narcissistic, he is closed. He knows only himself. And how much can he know himself if he has not known the other, because only the other can function as a mirror? You will never know yourself without knowing the other. Love is very fundamental for self-knowledge too. The person who has not known the other in deep love, in intense passion, in utter ecstasy, will not be able to know who he is, because he will not have the mirror to see his own reflection.
Relationship is a mirror, and the purer the love is, the higher the love is, the better the mirror, the cleaner the mirror. But the higher love needs that you should be open. The higher love needs you to be vulnerable. You have to drop your armor; that is painful. You have not to be constantly on guard. You have to drop the calculating mind. You have to risk. You have to live dangerously. The other can hurt you; that is the fear in being vulnerable. The other can reject you; that is the fear in being in love.
The reflection that you will find in the other of your own self may be ugly; that is the anxiety. Avoid the mirror. But by avoiding the mirror you are not going to become beautiful. By avoiding the situation you are not going to grow either. The challenge has to be taken.
Latifa, one has to go into love. That is the first step towards God, and it cannot be bypassed. Those who try to bypass the step of love will never reach God. That is absolutely necessary because you become aware of your totality only when you are provoked by the presence of the other, when your presence is enhanced by the presence of the other, when you are brought out of your narcissistic, closed world under the open sky.
Love is an open sky. To be in love is to be on the wing. But certainly, the unbounded sky creates fear.
And to drop the ego is very painful because we have been taught to cultivate the ego. We think the ego is our only treasure. We have been protecting it, we have been decorating it, we have been continuously polishing it, and when love knocks on the door, all that is needed to fall in love is to put aside the ego; certainly it is painful. It is your whole life’s work, it is all that you have created - this ugly ego, this idea that “I am separate from existence. “
This idea is ugly because it is untrue. This idea is illusory, but our society exists, is based on this idea that each person is a person, not a presence.
The truth is that there is no person at all in the world; there is only presence. You are not - not as an ego, separate from the whole. You are part of the whole. The whole penetrates you, the whole breathes in you, pulsates in you, the whole is your life.
Love gives you the first experience of being in tune with something that is not your ego. Love gives you the first lesson that you can fall into harmony with someone who has never been part of your ego. If you can be in harmony with a woman, if you can be in harmony with a friend, with a man, if you can be in harmony with your child or with your mother, why can’t you be in harmony with all human beings? And if to be in harmony with a single person gives such joy, what will be the outcome if you are in harmony with all human beings? And if you can be in harmony with all human beings, why can’t you be in harmony with animals and birds and trees? Then one step leads to another.
Love is a ladder. It starts with one person, it ends with the totality. Love is the beginning, God is the end. To be afraid of love, to be afraid of the growing pains of love, is to remain enclosed in a dark cell.
Modern man is living in a dark cell; it is narcissistic. Narcissism is the greatest obsession of the modern mind.
2007-10-23 23:12:46
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answer #1
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answered by sagarukin 4
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Love is a chemical in the brain just like chocolate........nah, just kidding. Love to me is that thing, feeling or what have you, that makes you do, say, and be what ever it is that seem out of the question before, but is a real possibility today. Just like the basic necessities, something that no one, not even the hardest heart can be without. And the last time I checked, there is no danger in a need......wants yes, needs no.
2007-10-23 20:22:07
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answer #2
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answered by toknomskim 3
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Love was created to make a leap from humans to heaven :)
when you fully tap into that power, love makes miracles happen. Believe me on that one...
We carry it inside our souls, therefore it´s inextinguishable.
there...plain and simple....Love only exists because our spirits exist.
2007-10-23 20:16:16
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answer #3
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answered by Taurok 2
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It's is not dangerous !!! It's great feeling
2016-04-13 21:46:04
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answer #4
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answered by ? 3
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whenever u fall in love then u will get all informations about love automatically...
In my views Love is everthing.....
and its not very dangerous....
so get involve in love
2007-10-23 19:40:47
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answer #5
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answered by VIJIT ROHILLA 3
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Love is a word containing two vowels,two consonants and two fools
2007-10-23 22:33:30
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answer #6
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answered by paru r 1
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Love is working together...
2007-10-23 19:40:08
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answer #7
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answered by Anonymous
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MY DEFINITION OF LOVE:
LOVE knows no reasons.
Love knows no lies.
Love defies all reasons.
Love has no eyes.
Love is not blind; it sees but it doesn't mind.
Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Love is so easy to feel, so hard to explain; easy to get, so hard to let go; easy to spell, so hard to define.
Yet, everyone is still taking the risks.
Love is a feeling that's seen in one's eyes.
Love is the sight of the sunset and sunrise.
Love is the joy that make people smile.
Love is the pain that makes people cry...
To love is to feel the other so dear.
To the point you taste his or her tears.
Love doesn't seek what's not there.
Love accepts all pains to bear.
Love that doesn't die is love that we can't see.
Love will fly if you held it too lightly; yet it will die if you held it too tightly.
In words, love can be read.
In actions, love can be measured.
But others don't know that even in silence love can be heard.
The meaning of love is inexplicable.
It can't be described similarly by everyone;
but one thing's for sure, love begins with;
friends.
Love is created not by words but by feelings;
not by humans but by hearts.
It is better expressed in deeds than in words.
For love has no definition, it exists.
Never expect love to be always at its best because if you do, you will never appreciate its existence.
Remember that there will always be one true love for you to have and hold.
It may not be one you expect but it's the one you deserve.
Love is supposed to be the most wonderful feeling.
It should inspire you to give you joy and strength, but sometimes the things that give you joy can also hurt you in the end.
Love works in magical ways but never be fooled by the promise of forever.
There will come a time when the spark will die and when that time comes, we must learn to let go no matter how painful.
Love can never be wrong; it's the people, time and place that go wrong.
Learn from your mistakes; don't correct a mistake with another one.
In the course of love, ones heart must be brave;
brave enough to hold on when things go wrong and brave enough to let go when they realize that things are not meant to be.
Love can never be forced or created if it was never meant to be there at all nor can be destroyed if it was destined to survive.
Love may leave your heart like a shattered glass but keep in mind that there's someone who'll be willing to endure the pain of picking up the pieces so you could be whole again.
There's always pain and disappointment when falling in love, but continue sharing your love cause the more you love, the more you'll get to know yourself, cause every person you love becomes your reflection.
Let love be the guide to your dreams, let love be the light to your heart; let your love be the reason why somebody else's heart still continuous to beat.
Loving is not how you forget but how you forgive;
not how you listen but how you understand;
not what you see but what you feel;
and not how you let go but how you hold on.
Letting go of someone you truly love is hard but holding on to someone who doesn't even feel the same is much harder.
Giving up doesn't mean you're weak.
It only means that you're strong enough to let go.
If you love someone, set them free.
If they come back, they’re yours.
If they don’t, they never were.
It really hurts to love someone who doesn't give you the time of day, but what will hurt more is when you realize that someone whom you don't give the time of day loved you and gave it up because you loved someone else.
Love is a contradiction.
It's hard to find, but easy to lose;
love makes you feel good but hurts you so bad;
opens your eyes, but makes you blind;
fills up your heart, but tears it apart.
Love is like air and you can't see it but you can feel it.
True love doesn't have an ending because it won't end anyway.
Loving people means giving them the freedom to be who they choose to be and where they choose to be.
Love is allowing people in your life to make choices.
Love is a noble act of self giving, offering your trust, faith and loyalty.
The more you love, the more you lose a part of you;
yet you don't become less of who you are, you just end up being complete.
Love need not stand in front of us to be recognized.
If it's far for the eyes to see, it has power close enough for the heart to feel.
If you want a butterfly, don't run after it.
Instead, sit down and it will surely land on your palm when it needs some rest.
People can't define what love really is unless they've feel it....
2007-10-29 07:00:30
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answer #8
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answered by Anonymous
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THE GREATEST THING YOU'LL EVERY LEARN IS TO LOVE, AND BE LOVED IN RETURN!!!
2007-10-23 20:08:50
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answer #9
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answered by ★♥AJ♥★™ 3
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