Arranging Priorities for Love

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Why is love unfulfilled? Because someone has placed something above it. We’ve got to make love first to make it last. Love succeeds only when it is our top priority, for “no man can serve two masters.” Everything that is less than love must someday be abandoned. Such is the way of the heart. This is the destiny of all, simply because nothing less than love will do.

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Togetherness for Healing

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When I withdraw, I feel the pain of separation immediately. When I regroup, I go out to all the people; that is my regrouping. It is completely happy for me to know that you all are my salvation. It is not negative dependency, but pure relief.

What you call without, I call within. And I go to without whenever I’m tired, whenever my nerves are on edge, whenever I feel separated and difficult, and it fixes me. And then maybe I’m strong enough to stand another bout of being by myself.

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You Are Already Across

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“True love is not a complicated matter of trying to get across anything—just a simple matter of being across. The process of loving is not a difficult job of overcoming difference and separation; it is an easy confession of being identical to and inseparable from others. You are already what they are, and where they are. When you see that, loving becomes natural and easy. Almost irrepressible, actually.”

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The Rules

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“If you try to be free for the purpose of being free, it takes a long time to get anywhere. Whereas, if you effort to be free for some social purpose—like delighting—progress is instant.

Likewise, if you love to demonstrate that you are loving, you get further from loving each day. Whereas, if you love to heal the beloved, you’re already there.

Those are the actual rules.”

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