REALISATION 17: ON LOVE AND RESPONSIBILITY

Twin candles

On a night when the power went out, two candles were lit in a small room.
The first candle said:
- I'm afraid I'll burn myself away.
The other smiled:
- I'm not afraid. Because when I am gone, that light will remain in everything I have illuminated.

Love is not clutching the flame.
Love is letting the light spread.

There are people who, even after they have left,
still leave their light behind - shining quietly across the world.

1) Two halves of one whole

Love without responsibility is only a passing emotion.
Responsibility without love becomes a heavy obligation.
But when the two merge, love becomes mature.

Someone who truly knows how to love does not merely offer feelings;
they also accept responsibility for what that love brings into being.
They know how to care, to understand, and to grow together through the journey.

Love is not possession.
It is becoming better together.

2) When love walks with understanding

Love without understanding easily wounds.
Understanding without love can turn cold.
Only when love walks with understanding do we truly see the other person.

We do not love in order to change someone else.
We love so that we can understand they, too, are learning how to become themselves.
Mature love does not demand, does not control, does not possess.
It is as free as breath,
as free as light,
as natural as a river flowing where it must.

Love does not need to struggle to hold on.
It only needs you to remain capable of loving.

3) Closing - when love becomes a path of practice

Every religion teaches love,
yet few people realise that love itself is a path to awakening.
Because to love is to learn to dissolve the ego-
until we can see the other as ourselves.

When we love with an open heart and with responsibility,
that love becomes a light:
it illuminates,
it heals,
and it raises the human soul to a higher plane.

Love is the deep realisation that the other person is you. - Eckhart Tolle

Hoàng Nhật Minh
Excerpt from the book: Spiritual Science - A Journey Back To Your True Self

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