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- From: das@media.mit.edu (David Sheppard)
- Subject: Re: Better to have loved and lost...?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.212507.24131@news.media.mit.edu>
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- Organization: MIT Media Laboratory
- References: <1992Dec23.200043.21719@microsoft.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 21:25:07 GMT
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- In article <...> a-markov@microsoft.com (Mark Overby) writes:
- >"Is it better to have loved and lost, or never to have loved
- >at all?"
- >
- In general, loved and lost. You can't grow without love, whether
- it's love from within yourself or from outside. Life is all about
- growing, so if you aren't loving, you aren't getting the depth of
- life that you could if you were. This is independent of whether
- you "lose" love or not. For me, Love has both eternal and ephemeral
- aspects; I don't lose the eternal part of Love, though I may forget
- or distance myself from it. The more ephemeral parts of love are
- all in the moment--feelings, situations; physical, emotional, sensual
- and sexual energies. These all ebb and flow as needed. One needs to
- be truly present in the moment in order to receive these.
-
- Love brings to us the best and most difficult gifts: the lessons
- we most need to learn. Love brings the deepest pain we can feel as
- well as the highest joy. You can't separate these--Love contains
- them both, and you can accept or deny.
-
- This doesn't mean, of course, to indescriminately engage in "giving
- love away". That feels like "false love" to me. To me, Love is that
- aspect within us that promotes our spiritual growth, and the growth of
- others as well. In _certain_ situations, the Loving thing to do is
- *not* to attempt to "share love":
-
- For example, if someone is repeatedly recreating unhealthy
- relationships which are more based on addiction and denial than
- growth, then "sharing love" with that person could just enable their
- addiction-based behaviors. *Actually*Loving* that person would more
- likely involve NOT repeating useless patterns of addiction, but
- creatively exploring new and healthier behaviors.
-
- [One *does* have to be ready to change, though, and often this comes
- about by repeating the same d*mn pattern in worse and worse ways until
- one is totally fed up and _forced_ (motivated?) to choose something
- different! Personally, I had to make the same mistakes again and
- again until I was at the end of my rope, screaming why? Why? WHY!?!
- When I finally started listening, some answers started appearing.
- My best and longest lover walking out on me gave me a jolt which
- helped me pull out of the biggest hole I'd dug myself into...this
- was a very Loving gift. It took a year for me to receive it in a
- positive light, though]
-
- >
- >Anybody got any answers???????
- >
-
- The answers you most need will come from inside your own heart, and
- when you quiet you mind and look within, you will find them there.
- Out here, we can support, suggest and try to love you, but you have to
- find your own light within--that is what is truly authentic & real.
-
-
- Namaste, follow seekers and lovers, learners and losers--
- losing is just the dark side of winning; accept & grow.
-
-