Falling in love makes me a lover. Experiencing Love makes me a loving person.

And that makes a great difference…

Falling in love makes me fragile, vulnerable. This feeling makes up for a need, it ties me and makes me dependant on the one who makes my heart beat. Happiness coming from a love affair is unsteady, uncertain. And while living the most intense of love relationship, I build my own prison, and chain myself to my desire. The very nature of a love relationship is that it cannot last eternally. And when the end comes, my need to be completed by my partner appears again. Then pleasure gives way to pain, the joy of a perfect union with my "love" is followed by sadness and the feeling of separation.

The nature of Love is of a totally different kind. It is an inner experience, a revelation, and discovering it brings a feeling of completeness, of being back home. You feel as if filled with joy, confidence, and the desire to give. This Love is not linked to anybody, it is free, spontaneous. It pours within yourself, or in other words, it springs from your innermost being, without any reason. Then to give does not express the need to receive any more, but becomes the consequence of a state - Love - whose expression are caring and giving. There is nothing to wait for in return, since you already feel overwhelmed. And when you give, you simply share what you are.

This Love dose not come from mind and does not belong to us, but it shines deep inside each of us and it is for everyone to reveal it.

Laurence