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Have You Loved Today?

Last fall, I mentioned a book called The Four Agreements, but I never followed up to say how it turned out. I think it’s a really great book, very inspiring. I didn’t agree with the author’s perspective 100%, but I think it’s worth a read.

Here is a particular passage that really touched me…

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“My teacher opened his chest and took out his heart, and he took a beautiful flame from his heart. Then he opened up my chest, opened my heart, and he put that little flame inside it. He put my heart back in my chest, and as soon as my heart was inside me, I felt intense love, because the flame he put in my heart was his own love.

That flame grew in my heart and became a big, big fire - a fire that doesn’t burn, but purifies everything that it touches. And that fire touched each one of the cells of my body, and the cells of my body loved me back. I became one with my body, but my love grew even more. That fire touched every emotion of my mind, and all the emotions transformed into a strong and intense love. And I loved myself, completely and unconditionally.

But the fire kept burning and I had the need to share my love… [I’m skipping some paragraphs]

… And I put a little piece of my love in every human and I became one with the whole of humanity. Wherever I go, whomever I meet, I see myself in their eyes, because I am part of everything, because I love.”

Tue, Mar 11, 2008 @ 12:44 am | Filed in Life, Abundance | Permalink

3 Comments

i do love.

Posted by chris on Tue, Mar 11, 2008 @ 10:27 am

I think I need to read this chapter. Again and again.

Posted by Lewis on Wed, Mar 12, 2008 @ 12:24 pm

The paragraph you quoted reminds me of one of the greatest poet of New England Whitman.It bears the resemblance of his philosophical subject matter in many of the poems.

Posted by Terry Qiu on Wed, Mar 12, 2008 @ 12:58 pm