Sunday, November 26, 2006

A thousand half-loves

Rumi wrote:

A thousand half-loves
must be forsaken to take
one whole heart home.


How do you know if you have met a half-love or a whole heart? How do you know you are not a half love?

I'm beginning to understand why people love God. For it is the only love which does not pain you. You can believe that the love is unconditional, even if you can find no proof of it. It is the only love that accepts you as you are, no matter what. The only one that no one can take away from you.

5 comments:

sinlady said...

Well, it's sorta like you gotta kiss many toads before you find your prince?

wildgoose said...

I guess my question is, how do you know it's the prince and not the toad you're looking at?

Suzie Wong said...

Wah! Another cheem topic! hahaha, i can hear SL sniggering at me already....

Er.....used to think he was a prince, but when i woke up to a toad, I dumped it in a pond....so, my point is, a toad can become a prince and a prince can become a toad...and when you perceive it as a toad, even the cutest gribbit becomes a din!

sinlady said...

You gotta kiss it full smack on the pucker,clutch it to your bossom, warts and all,to see if the toad turns into a prince ... or the search goes on...kisskiss,kisskiss...

wildgoose said...

SL- Good advice but what a search. Lol...

Suzie - Who's the cheem one now? What's gribbit and what's din? But you got a point, a prince can become a toad too. How come they never tell us in the fairy tales? Must be written by toads. :)