We are celebrating month of love on my blog. Love is a very wide term. It is difficult to dedicate a month or a year to write about 'love'. Writers to poets have spend many years of their lives exploring their imaginations and fantasies around love. From sexual to platonic, we have some very rich literary works around love. But there is a underlying fact that drives my definition around love - a simple one, love yourself and you will love everyone around you.
Love all those who love you. Love all those who hate you. Love all those who appreciate you. Love all those who humiliate you. Love all those who inspire you. Love all those who criticize you. Love your loved ones. Love the ones who call you names. Love is not a judemental or negotiated element of life!
All I mean to say is - Just Love. Do not set a criteria around loving people. You are accountable for your actions ONLY! If you love unconditionally, God will always bless you. A word of hatred for a word of hatred is the only reason of war.
Let us read some really good and meaningul quotes by Elisabeth Kubler Ross!
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”
“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.”
“The most beautiful people I've known are those who have known trials, have known struggles, have known loss, and have found their way out of the depths.”
“The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.”
“There is within each one of us a potential for goodness beyond our imagining; for giving which seeks no reward; for listening without judgment; for loving unconditionally.”
“It is very important that you only do what you love to do. you may be poor, you may go hungry, you may lose your car, you may have to move into a shabby place to live, but you will totally live. And at the end of your days you will bless your life because you have done what you came here to do. Otherwise, you will live your life as a prostitute, you will do things only for a reason, to please other people, and you will never have lived. and you will not have a pleasant death.”
“There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.”
“It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth -- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up -- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.”
“Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose, there are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.”
“Is war perhaps nothing else but a need to face death, to conquer and master it, to come out of it alive -- a peculiar form of denial of our mortality?”
