Love is letting Go … ( 07 / 27 / 2011 )
Love is letting Go … ( 07 / 27 / 2011 )
“ 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 .” ~ Kahlil Gibran
Gibran is truly fantabulous … And yet , this quote alone is also quite misleading , as it might tempt some to think Gibran is saying that we are to avoid courageous intimacy and simply “ live our own lives ” with emotional “ love ” in our hearts . Of course , this is NOT what Gibran ’ s “ The Prophet ” is about ! … It ’ s the same mistake many make when they speak about “ detachment ”, thinking that it means to stop caring altogether . Think about it -- It is impossible to let Love be “ a moving sea between the shores of your Souls ” if that sea is at rest … Yes , we are to let go of our loved ones in order to let them blossom in their own unique ways – AND YET there must be active LOVE between those loved ones to allow that letting go to occur .
“ Life is a long experience of suffering , disappointment & chaos . But the moment you stop squirming against the catastrophe of being alive , music flies forth from the mess .” ~ Uncle Cullen ( from the movie “ Uncorked ”)
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