“Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides, and when it subsides you have to make a decision.
You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part, because this is what love is.
Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being “in love” which any of us can convince ourselves we are.
-Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.-
Those that truly love, have roots that grow towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from their branches, they find that they are one tree and not two.” …. Louis de Bernieres
I must confess that I have not yet read the book – Corelli’s Mandolin and…. I might never… but, this quote has touched deep into my core, for me it seems to possess a rhythmic beauty of words that stir a wondrous symphony, reigniting my passions.
Kahlil Gibran writes in the “Prophet” –
“You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore.
You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days.
Ay, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God.
But let there be spaces in your togetherness,
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
Love one another, but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup.
Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf.
Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.
Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping.
For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.
And stand together yet not too near together:
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow”
How profound?!
Kahlil Gibran is my most favorite author, I own one of every book he has written.
I also had my favorite quote of Kahlil, carved into the marble slab at my husbands resting place.
It reads:
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
I found this quote to be most appropriate for Eric, you see, he was the strongest warrior I knew who battled ALS with a smile.
Love…….
Too big an emotion for us humans but yet, we resilient individuals seek it with fervor, hunger, with such ambition only to experience the soul snatching pain when the “love” we sought dissipates, all because we chose the “in love” version of the deep rooted – Love – only soulmates feel.
I believe that being “In Love” should begin with “Self-Love” because quite honestly THAT is the hardest love to seek for many individuals, so much so that we’d prefer to seek it in others, wounding ourselves at a deeper emotion.
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