Love and reason

[Hubert]

Love without reason
Is a weakness
What leads to man’s distruction.
Therefore
Educate your reason
As love you cannot avoid.

[Nichole]

Hubert, will you share who wrote this?
Reason is a tool of the mind and I would rather have tools of the heart to lead me in love. Wouldn't you?






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[lucky13]

Originally Posted by Nichole

Hubert, will you share who wrote this?
Reason is a tool of the mind and I would rather have tools of the heart to lead me in love. Wouldn't you?

Sure, I would. It could mean that you find love first, as love is unavoidable, and then find a reason later. You can find a reason to love just about anybody/anything in the world if you wanted to.

[Hubert]

Originally Posted by Nichole

Hubert, will you share who wrote this?
Reason is a tool of the mind and I would rather have tools of the heart to lead me in love. Wouldn't you?






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That's an easy one. My ego.

[Nichole]

Originally Posted by Hubert

That's an easy one. My ego.

Hubert,
I always admire you as an excellent student of Yoga! I have to think that you must be rewarded for the courage that you act with. Really...

It is one thing to act with ego and be unaware.
It is another to act with ego and then when asked, to point fingers and shout, "The ego did it!"
It is quite another to act with ego, to be aware, and to stand-by-side with your ego and say, "We did" as you did in your way here.

I really commend you for this. I hope to model myself as you do. I also believe that this is a critical step for the further and still-unknown-to-me evolution.

With great respect and love,

[Hubert]

Nichole, you really are a good friend, and someone who makes me always check myself, and my actions. Visting this forum is a substantial part of my sadhana ... the latter being perhaps too serious a word.

[Jozen-Bo]

This makes me think of another question that is possibly much more difficult to answer. What is Love? I ask this because I am doubtful two people ever give the same answer. I have never heard two people give the same answer. Before I attempt to answer this 'difficult' question, I would like to see what answers might pop up!

[Pandara]

Hi Jozen-Bo,

For me love = truth, no matter where you are even in romantic love, if you are in your own Truth then love will be there as well. It is when we are out of our own Truth that we are out of love and then fear starts to invade. So, because each person's Truth is different from the next one, therefore each person's description/expereince of love will be different as well. My own pov, not necessarily true, but true for me.

[Hubert]

Anyone seen Bentinho ? I kinda' miss him.

[Pandara]

Bentinho is in India for 6 months, somewhere on retreat in the Himalayas near Rishikesh.