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The mysterious thing called "LOVE"

If you find yourself in love with someone who does not love you, be

gentle with yourself. There is nothing wrong with you. Love just

didn't choose to rest in the other person's heart.

If you find someone else in love with you and you don't love him/her,

feel honored that love came and called at your door, but gently refuse

the gift you cannot return. Do not take advantage, do not cause pain.

How you deal with love is how you deal with yourself, and all our

hearts feel the same pains and joys, even if our lives and ways are

different.

If you fall in love with another, and he/she falls in love with you,

and then love chooses to leave, do not try to reclaim it or to assess

blame, let it go. There is a reason and there is a meaning. You will

know in time.

Remember that you don't choose love. Love chooses you. All you can

really do is accept it for all its mystery when it comes into your

life. Feel the way it fills you to overflowing, then reach out and

give it away.

Give it back to the person who brought it alive in you. Give it to

others who deem it poor in spirit. Give it to the world around you in

anyway you can.

There is where many lovers go wrong. Having been so long without love,

they understand love only as a need. They see their hearts as empty

places that will be filled by love, and they begin to look at love as

something that flows to them rather than from them.

The first blush of new love is filled to overflowing, but as their

love cools, they revert to seeing their love as need. They cease to be

someone who generates love and instead become someone who seeks love.

They forget that the secret of love is that it is a gift, and that it

can be made to grow only by giving it away.

Remember this, and keep it to your heart. Love has its own time, its

own seasons, and its own reason for coming and going. You cannot bribe

it or coerce it, or reason it into saying.

You can only embrace it when it arrives and give it away when it comes

to you. But if it chooses to leave from your heart or from the heart

of your lover, there is nothing you can do and there is nothing you

should do.

Love always has been and always will be a mystery. Be glad that it

came to live for a moment in your life. And if you keep your heart

open, it may come again.

-Empty Ink-