Loosening the Lies of LOVE … Lie #01 (12/30/12)
Lie #01: We have been told that, “Love is blind” …
… and yet in Truth: LOVE is our only real lucidity.
Yes, I know that “love at first sight” and “falling head over heels” are actually flashes of lust, and as such have nothing whatsoever to do with real Love. And yet even then, even in those times – as well as times other — when we choose to look past all behaviors “boring” and ignore all traits “broken” to see the very best in another person, we are actually not deceiving ourselves at all. For in all our moments of enamorment, even in those steeped in hormone-driven “delusion”, what we are actually Seeing is those others as they truly are – often in a way that they do not ever choose to See themselves. These times of intense adoration are not our times of blindness, my Friends; but rather are in actuality our sole glimpses of Clarity.
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are actually princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, simply something helpless that simply wants our Love.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
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