In Love there is no broken heart. In Love there is no unhappiness. In Love are all opportunities. When a man enters Love, in him immediately come joy, rejuvenation, and riches, everything comes, he can travel anywhere.
The one who has sacrificed everything for Love, he has won everything.
Whichever home, whichever mind, whichever heart, whichever body Love steps in, all things start to move forward. This is the condition of Divine Love.
The rays of Love are connection among people.
Man’s life achievement is infinite Divine Love.
Remember, if you chase Love, that is not Love. There is no greater crime than that, to chase Love. There is no greater lie than two people wanting to out-lie each other in their Love.
-Beinsa Duono
Brief reflections and breakdown:
If one is not familiar with Master Beinsa Duono, his teachings are over a century old, he was a Bulgarian Christian Mystic, a teacher of what we would call Esoteric Christianity today. When we see the word Love capitalized, we are not talking about what we think of in today’s society when one hears the word “love”.
He refers to the difference as “human love is a swamp. Divine Love is a spring.” And yet is still not so simple, for The Love, God, enters us, and The Love can work through us. But the “love” we muster on our own is not Love at all, but attachment. See earlier posts on Anthony De Mello’s teachings for elaboration on attachment and (mental) programming.
The last quote up there I find interesting. No Greater Crime - we can all think of heinous crimes, why would the chasing of Love be classified as the Greatest Crime? I have a few cents to throw in here - perhaps more, adjusted for inflation of course 😎 :
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