Saanams Mind

If you have it [Love], you don’t need to have anything else, and if you don’t have it, it doesn’t matter much what else you have.~ Sir James M. Barrie A day to celebrate love…Valentines Day is here and yet again here I am , to talk about the most glorified, most pure, most heartfelt of all emotions ….LOVE. I dedicate it to my Loved ones.

Love, a condition that just exists,no reasons, no explanations no conditions no excuses…it just is. True Love , as I look at it is the most beautiful emotion created by God. A love that loves you for what you are, the way you do things, your personality, sense of humor, or just because of the way you make them feel good about themselves. This love is the ‘one’ one has to be true to because this person mirrors you the best. There are no tests for acceptance, there is no search for anything more, they are just being themselves and are grateful for it.

Love is special, beautiful, unconditional ,unique and intense. Love in its purest form expects nothing much from the loved one except maybe kindness n care.It surpasses the want to grab, have, possess and own and just lets it be. It is a feeling that overwhelms one and just makes you glory in the happiness of the loved one.Love brings out the most positive emotions in a person. When a person feels the warmth of love , automatically all that is good in them comes out. There is sharing, caring, generosity, kindness, all the positive emotions forge out & come forth. So love is a catalyst to bring forward the best in every one.Giving is the second name for love. To give more and more, with no thoughts of getting back. To love is to forgive and forgive easily.Its each smile that brightens your heart with their lil thoughts. To me its also every tear you shed when they are in pain, its every heartfelt prayer you send up for them to do well and stay happy.

Love always doesn’t have to be a bed of roses .Love does bring in tears with it sometimes, but love is what makes you strong enough to fight the travails of life and carry on to face tomorrow. With love you know you have a backup necessary to perk you up when you are down.It can break and shatter your heart into smithereens when a loved one hurts. Love sometimes is…just letting go. Love is the million things you do for them, without grumbling about doing it. Its something that gives you a feeling of completeness. To me its also something sacred.

God is Love, the cohesive force of the universe that connects us all. Its a feeling, an emotion so divine and it has to be felt to understand it for no words in the dictionary can actually express the depth of the feeling within. As said God Is Love and Love is God. A feeling you hold sacred, not just for a partner, spouse, loved one but for your parents, kids, friends, family. Love.. the most beautiful and positive of all feelings , the very essence of our lives , that which makes the world goes around.Love is also a feeling that can make or break relationships, make or break countries, make or break lives.

To sum up Here is a poem on love expressed so beautifully by Khalil Gibran …on love.

When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
And when his wings enfold you yield to him,
Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
And when he speaks to you believe in him,
Though his voice may shatter your dreams
as the north wind lays waste the garden.

For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning.
Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun,
So shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.

Like sheaves of corn he gathers you unto himself.
He threshes you to make you naked.
He sifts you to free you from your husks.
He grinds you to whiteness.
He kneads you until you are pliant;
And then he assigns you to his sacred fire, that you may become sacred bread for God’s sacred feast.

All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life’s heart.

But if in your fear you would seek only love’s peace and love’s pleasure,
Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love’s threshing-floor,
Into the season less world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears.
Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.
Love possesses not nor would it be possessed;
For love is sufficient unto love.

When you love you should not say, “God is in my heart,” but rather, “I am in the heart of God.”
And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.
But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires:
To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.
To know the pain of too much tenderness.
To be wounded by your own understanding of love;
And to bleed willingly and joyfully.
To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving;
To rest at the noon hour and meditate love’s ecstasy;
To return home at eventide with gratitude;
And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.

~KHALIL GIBRAN~

Just as I was about to post this I hear about a bomb blast in Pune killing some and injuring many… Ironic wouldn’t you say that on the eve of a day dedicated to love , many lives are taken because of the opposite of love…hatred. Saddening to think that this beautiful, sacred emotion called love often gets overshadowed by the dark and destroying hatred that knows nothing better than to destruct But as they say Love always truimphs so may each heart in this world be filled with a love so divine that we see no more of this hatred that kills.

I wish you a life completely filled with the healing, positive and magical power called love. May God bless you with this divine love, every minute of your life and make your life as beautiful as it should be. I Love You! Happy Valentines Day n Always be blessed

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