Daily Meditation: Tuesday, April 6, 1999

When you love someone – a woman or a man – try not to rush …

04/06/1999

When you love someone – a woman or a man – try not to rush in and devour him or her, because when all the excitement is over weariness soon sets in, and you lose your inspiration and joy. The same thing happens when you have eaten too much and the food no longer interests you. It seems that people are always in a rush to destroy their own happiness and everything which can make their lives more beautiful and meaningful. For a few minutes of pleasure they sacrifice the love that brings them every blessing, that brings them heaven. Why do they not try to delay the physical manifestations of their love in order to preserve as long as possible this feeling of wonder they are experiencing? But no, they feel an attraction and immediately must satisfy it. This is why, even when they marry and have children, they continue to live together out of habit, to respect convention, to keep up appearances before parents and friends, but inwardly they have long since left each other. It is the subtle feelings that sustain love, that prolong and embellish life. This is the true elixir of immortal life.