Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantière
i don't pretend i know a lot about love, i am ignorant.
but surely this i know, instinctively, soul deep - i am not intellectual enough to give a long and detailed reasoning for this - that it IS possible to love selflessly.
if we but begin by recognising that all human loves are a reflection for man's love of Divinity, of God, then it becomes possible to love selflessly. man's nature is fallen and fragmented, broken and he loves imperfectly, yet even in that broken image, there is the beginnings of a selfless love, a love that desires the best for the other and to develop and build up the other.
i know this though, i won't reject love again - if it comes knocking.
because He reaches out to me through the simple acts of love in my life, and has been doing so all this while.
[i was inspired to write this after thinking about this for the longest time yet. i'm still refining my understanding, though, and hope to share with all of you my thoughts on this matter again later]
3 comments:
There are always passion lingering in the inner most recesses of our heart which aim to fulfill our personal pleasure and possesion.
By incessantly strive to eliminate them, we can gradually render selfless love to others, include our family, friends, lover, strangers and even animals.
The vocabulary and content of the above statement are partially extracted from 'An Autobiography OR The Story of my experiments with truth' by M.K. Gandhi, translated from Gujarati by Mahadev Desai, 1940.
i too believe selfless love exist.
'Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantière'
Where did you come across this? agree to that very much..
thank you for your kind words, smith and mary. you guys make me happy that i m not alone in believing that selfless love does exist.
i like the reference to gandhi. here was a man who understood life and people.
and i got this quote off a website when i was searching for quotes on love. if you liked this, mary, i would recommend you read 'the little prince' by the same author. it's extremely moving.
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