Daily Meditation: Wednesday, July 7, 2004

Love - protect it by keeping your distance

07/07/2004

Men and women who fall in love want their love to last forever. This is possible, but only if they understand certain rules and apply them. If you genuinely wish your love for another to last, do not be in a hurry to become physically involved for, once the great passion is over, you will quickly tire of each other and will begin to see each other's failings. To protect your inspiration, try to keep some distance between you. Those who wish to know and taste everything quickly are soon no longer curious about each other. They do not even want to meet, because they have seen too much and ‘eaten' too much; they are saturated, and it is finished. This love which brought them all kinds of blessings, which brought them heaven, has been sacrificed for a few moments of pleasure. Why did they not try to be more vigilant? Why did they deprive themselves so quickly of those subtle, poetic sensations which would have allowed their love to last?