Tragedy is the violation of love.
The problem with love is attachment; love makes you dependent. Unattached love - you love for the hell of it.
Love has very little to do with a person. It comes from us. You can love a surprisingly great number of people.
Relationships are a proving ground for love.
Practice love in your relationships. The key to this is avoiding expectation. It's expectation that makes most people miserable in love - the return on the investment.
When you love someone, you shouldn't feel that they should love in return. You have to give people freedom.
You cannot compel someone to love. Love is like the wind. It comes when it does, it stops when it does, it changes direction when it does. Who are you and I to criticize the wind?
Love has its own independent form and formlessness. When someone loves you be gratiful for it. If they stop loving be grateful for that. If they love another, let them love!
Don't try to hold people to you, don't try to push them away. Let life do everything for you. This is the proper attitude on the path of love.
It's necessary when you follow the path of love to love those around you first. Desire tells us that we should have someone else in our life.
If someone else is supposed to be in your life, they will be in your life - you can't stop them from coming if its the will of eternity.
The purpose of life is to love, not necessarily to be loved.
There is wisdom to loving.
Love more deeply and without the sense of what you love being your personal possession.
Love is something that comes to us in life. Quietly, it overwhelms us. It is something that you cultivate. You make it happen.
Love is something that we don't control. We have to be ourselves. You can be sexual, nonsexual, asexual, bisexual, or trisexual and it really doesn't have a lot to do with enlightenment.
A number of Guru's feel that there is something wrong or sick about being gay. I think it really doesn't matter what your sexual preference is; what matters is the quality of your love.
I recommend for everyone the study of some type of sports or athletics, particularly martial arts. Always check with your doctor first, naturally.
All success in sports and athletics, from the Zen point of view, comes from the mind. No matter what kind of shape your body is in, there is disharmony in the being.
There are lots of people who work out and aren't at all powerful in terms of their mind or their spirits.
If your intent is that athletics and sports are tools or devices to reach higher levels of mind, then your workout sessions become meditation.
Allow the emptiness inherent within actions and experiences to guide and shape your choices. Let your actions direct you, the actor, not the other way around.
One or two of my friends set longevity records for people who had AIDS. What they did, incredibly hard though it was, was to practice meditation, positive thinking and they worked out physically quite a bit.
Diet is highly individual. You have to see what your body wants and what is healthy for it.
Diet is a matter of personal preference, but if you're interested in the advanced states of meditation, eating mammals should be avoided. They have a more evolved consciousness and can affect your attention field greatly.
