Love yourselves. There is nothing wrong with you, no matter how much the old way tries to tell you there is. Depression, anxiety, PTSD, and the myriad other mental illnesses we see at increasing rates: these are the natural responses to the crimes perpetrated against you in the name of a fleeting worldview. They are real, but they are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of something wrong with the world.
“Somewhere along the way, there develops within the soul a yearning that can no longer be ignored, a craving for the great love affair. We feel it drawing ever closer. It is the greatest of them all. It cannot fail. It is all consuming. It is incomparable. It is the love affair with our own true nature and the source from which it comes. The desire is in all of us but, more often than not, it is ignored for other interests. We wrestle with each interest, trying to make it work, growing with each adventure until the light has grown bright enough for us to reach for it.”
I grew up believing that these men, these soldiers, were the only thing holding the world back with its murder and rape and theft. Some nights I lay awake, tucked into my narrow drawer of a bunk, and I imagined utter chaos Out There. I pictured grotesque creatures with two heads and no livers, tearing each other to ribbons, and I was grateful for our walls and our locked door.
People say love is a very strong feeling, but so as hatred. And love stories started with hatred are the most passionate ones. My story with programming sprung just like that. I was introduced to the world of programming in the 1st semester of my undergrad study and ultimately that was the most painful subject for me. Tough I was always passionate about technical stuff but I was not yet sure how to take a move forward towards my passion. My hatred for programming increased with my first failed attempt in clearing interview for college Technical Society because 80% of the questions were on programming.
When I started my summer of writing, I figured I would write a few short stories and then go back to working full-time. I gave myself four months to see what would happen. In the course of those four months I fell in love with the writing process. And a short story I was working on about love and spiritual crisis took on life of its own, quickly blooming into a novel. So I extended my sabbatical for another few months.
One of the most painful stages in the twin flame relationship is that of the “runner and chaser” dynamic. After the initial stages of ecstatic union and fairy-tale partnership, things start to heat up. Egos begin to clash, core wounds, insecurities, and traumas are rubbed raw, and shadow selves lash out. As a result, it’s inevitable that almost every twin flame relationship will battle through drama and dysfunction at first.”
Truly loving
people are uncommon. They are as uncommon as awake people. Our success in
learning about love will directly correlate to our level of happiness. It is
certainly worth persevering with the learning process which involves a great
deal of honesty, introspection, and forgiveness. Even if we are the only one in
the relationship on that path, it doesn’t matter. We will still be blessed with
our own happiness and isn’t that the bottom line of what we all want? Our first
responsibility is to create a happy life for ourselves. If the other person in
the relationship learns to also value love, honesty, and forgiveness then the
relationship will transform, usually slowly, into a strong connection which is
good for the couple and others alike.
Human love
is the shadow of the Great love; its child. And of all human loves, it is
romantic love which has the most riveting effect upon our soul. Ageless and
perennial, it is forever finding an outlet in poetry, music, dance,
story-telling, and the media. We never tire of it. It commands attention at so
many turns, such is the longing for its presence in our life. It is not by
accident that it has such an unfailing pull on our psyche. If we cannot connect
with visible human love, we will not be able to find the invisible Love. Human
love is leading us, most of us unknowingly, straight to the divinity of our own
nature. And that nature leads us, in turn, to the source of life itself.
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it
complicated
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