Handling Love

[Guest guest]

If you find yourself in love with someone who does not love you, be

gentle with yourself. There is nothing wrong with you. Love just

didn't choose to rest in the other person's heart.

 

If you find someone else in love with you and you don't love her/him,

feel honored that love came and called at your door, but gently

refuse the gift you cannot return. Do not take advantage, do not

cause pain. How you deal with love is how you deal with you, and all

our hearts feel the same pains and joys, even if our lives and ways

are different.

 

If you fall in love with another, and she falls in love with you, and

then love chooses to leave, do not try to reclaim it or to assess

blame, let it go. There is a reason and there is a meaning. You will

know in time.

 

Remember that you don't choose love. Love chooses you. All you can

really do is accept it for all its mystery when it comes into your

life. Feel the way it fills you to overflowing, then reach out and

give it away.

 

Give it back to the person who brought it alive in you. Give it to

others who deem it poor in spirit. Give it to the world around you in

anyway you can.

 

This is where many lovers go wrong. Having been so long without love,

they understand love only as a need. They see their hearts as empty

places that will be filled by love, and they begin to look at love as

something that flows to them rather than from them.

 

The first blush of new love is filled to overflowing, but as their

love cools, they revert to seeing their love as need. They cease to

be someone who generates love and instead become someone who seeks

love. They forget that the secret of love is that it is a gift, and

that it can be made to grow only by giving it away.

 

Remember this, and keep it to your heart. Love has its own time, its

own seasons, and its own reason for coming and going. You cannot

bribe it or coerce it, or reason it into saying. You can only embrace

it when it arrives and give it away when it comes to you.