When love is missing, you start falling apart…
Photo copyright Suresh gundappa 2006
The very phenomenon of love integrates you, and when love is missing, you start falling apart — it is the glue that keeps you together. In fact it is the glue that keeps the whole existence together; otherwise stars will fall apart, the trees will fall down, the earth will not care and no child will grow in a womb.
It is love that keeps everything going, and the misery of man is that he has forgotten the language of love. The reason why he has forgotten the language of love is: he has become too identified with reason.
Nothing is wrong with reason but it has a tendency to monopolise; it clings to the whole of your being. Then feeling suffers — feeling is starved, and by and by you forget about feeling completely. So it goes on shrinking and shrinking and shrinking, and that dead feeling becomes a dead weight, that feeling becomes a dead heart.
Then one can go on pulling oneself just somehow — it will always be ’somehow’. There will be no charm, no magic, because without love there is no magic in life, and there will be no poetry either; it will be prose, flat. Yes, it will have a grammar but it will not have a song in it.
Love is play, it has no purpose; so is dance, so is beauty. All that is significant for the heart is meaningless for the reason.
Love is not an effort, you cannot make an effort to love. If you make an effort, there is no love. You flow into it, you don’t make an effort, you simply allow it to happen, you don’t MAKE an effort. It is not a doing, it is a happening . Love is a honey moon that never ends.
Lot’s of love dear ones
Suresh
I came across this accidently while using google search. Outstanding and incredible photos. I love this combination of incredible writing and superb photographs. I really enjoyed the comments on your site too. Your site is the most beautiful blog I have come across.
Woo hoo! [Rubs hands in delight @Sureshs' post and picture] Many folks also confuse emotion with love
Luckily love comes in all forms, from the deep concern for a coworker or aquantance to intimate enamory. I am in my 20s now and still have never fell in love to another (for I am not attracted to any that way), but I still have platonic feelings for my friends and loved ones.
Very beautiful visually and verbally, Suresh.
What a dichotomy. Love is the glue that keeps us together and also the ocean that we individual drops lose ourselves into.
Suresh,
Your writing is beautiful and obviously filled with love. Your sharing these wisdoms is appreciated.
My kind thoughts are with you,
Adrienne
Suresh, beautiful and wise, as ever! People do love, thanks God - but the most interesting thing is who they manifest love…Sometimes it is really difficult to recognise it
BUT WE ALL LOVE! - thanks for reminding of it.
grammar but no song - very well put!
Yes, we need to love more, but we also need to sit down and think (ouch - did I just prove your point?) about what love really means. Sometimes I ask myself whether we really are loving less or wether how we love has changed (or should change). It seems to me that at least in my surrounding love has a possessive feel to it, “I love therefore I deserve”.
Suresh, I agree with my fellow readers, you have a beautiful site and what to me seems even more important, you have something to say which we obvioulsy need to hear. SP
Interesting…