"Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it." Song Of Solomon 8:7.
But man can. Call me cynical,
I don't think that Love is instinctive; it's not some sentiment embedded deep in one's nature that it persists despite all else. It is a product of our upbringing and our social environment. It is a choice made that gets buried so deep and therefore it implies it can be 'un-done', (like water erodes the soil to expose the roots) dug away gradually until it appears near the surface and then our mind [and all it remembers] decides to love or not to love. We nurture it again or not with reasons for that choice.
Love implies absolute acceptance - simple yet difficult, is it do-able ?
These statements from my earlier post The Choice to Make, ring true - by M S Peck who said “The desire to love is not itself love….Love is an act of will …. Namely an intention and action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love. No matter how much we may think we are loving, if we are in fact not loving, it is because we have chosen not to love and therefore not love despite our good intentions. On the other hand, whenever we do actually exert ourselves in the cause of spiritual growth, it is because we have chosen to do so. The choice to love has been made.”
If we choose it all the time and make it so, then there will be more ...as is implied by Mother Theresa who said "I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love." On the other hand this seems simple.
(Nov/2009)
