"Loving"

To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive -- to grief, sorrows and disappointment as well as to joy, fullfilment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before.

When we "fall" in love, the world shakes and changes around us, not only on the way it looks but in our whole experience of what we are doing in the world. The shaking is consciously felt in its positive aspects - as the wonderful new heaven and earth which love with its miracle and mystery has suddenly produced.

When we love, we give up the center of ourselves. We are thrown from our previous state of existence into a void; and though we hope to attain a new world, a new experience, we can never be sure. Nothing looks the same and may well never look the same again.

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