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From: Orly V. Montalban>orlyve_57@eudoramail.com
or>orly_26may@hotmail.com
Category: Philosophy of Love
Date: 14 Nov 2000
Love is a choice to accepting the other person for who and what he/she is. It is in loving that a person learns to accept.In this way, love hurts because the one you love oftentimes fails to live up to your expectations. But when you really love the person, you don't try to change him. You accept him for who and what he/ she is and still keep loving him/her because he is he or she is she. Secondly, love is wanting the best for another person. Love doesn't greedily snatch us to itself but it breathes on the beloved and gives him/her wings and then lets him/her free. It doesn't tell us how to use our wings but it watches us while we fly. Love sees and because it sees, it can tell us how our flying needs to be improved -a little higher, a little lower. Love watches and it knows because it sees. In this case, love is doing something useful to help another person realize his or her potential. Some people like to say "Love is blind" but no; Love is not blind. It is only the ego which is blind. All it can see is itself. But love is not blind; it is pure vision! Love is not blind, it can see what microscopes have never seen. It doesn't need a magnifying glass, it has clear eyes that see forever. Love doesn't need concrete evidences or proofs. The heart and the mind always feel. If one really loves, nothing in this world can stop him/her for love's strenght is far beyond description...If love last through the years and remains as strong as it was first discovered, then it is real Love for Love endures all pains in silence, and it never hesitates to reach out. It shares its joys and shouts its happiness to the world. Love makes the strong and the weak alike vulnerable in the process because love does, accepts, endures everything. To love, one must first love his/herself. This is because one cannot give what he doesn't have. If one loves first his self, then he can love others. Moreover, Love is not solely based on the physical but from physical it can be transformed into the spiritual. Love is sacred in a sense. In the end everyone will find out that, Love is a gift from the Almighty.