Relationships
This hand is you and your other your spouse. Bring them close together, then have them touch – and then interlock them.
You have now created a new Entity: the two of you fused as One. This is Fusion, this is Love.
At some level – superficial, shallow or deep – every work of art still transmits the basic problems of life, for example, the fear of death. For few persons have ever really overcome them, at the deepest level.
Therefore to listen to any music, contemplate any painting, feel any sculpture – and relate to any person
Ethics is the taking responsibility for all of one’s actions — and thoughts, for they, too, radiate just as far.
How far? Every action, physical or mental, lives on for ever, resonating through its effects on all and their sequential subsequent effects on all to come.
Everyone affects everyone – for ever.
To truly proclaim, “I Love You,” you must first feel Beloved. So, “I know You Love Me” always precedes and leads to “I Love You.” Therefore, don’t think of giving love to the audience, but of receiving it from them. Then – and only then – can you give it. For true love is always
Disease starts in the mind, Paracelsus proclaimed. But so very few physical treaters even consider this fact – let alone attempt to alleviate.
When I ask for an example of a good marriage, I’ve yet to have someone propose his or her parents’. (In fact, few can give any good example!
Apart from the obvious problem of the lack of a positive marriage model – or rather, the presence of the very opposite – to emulate, there is another problem.
For
Lenny, the giant of a man in Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men had a pet mouse that he kept in his pocket. Although he loved it – or apparently loved it – he stroked it to death. He was loving but not tender.
Dan was the same. He obviously loved his wife and had
"But we have this faith – that a lifetime’s bliss will appear any minute, with a smile upon its lips."