LOVE AND MARRIAGE

"Love and marriage, love and marriage

Go together like a horse and carriage".

Yes, well, there's more than one good reason that song is no longer on the hit parade!

Love is light,

Lighter than air,

Lighter than thought,

Lighter than feeling.

Love is not a feeling, or a thought....

Love is the atmosphere in which all thought and feeling

(Including the ones we call "love")

Draw breath.

It is the stuff that love contains that gets heavy;

That stuff includes the romantic thoughts and feelings we mistake for "love". The stuff includes relationship and marriage.

What is Love?

Love is..........

Period.

Love manifests itself as anything you add after "Love is....."

Relationshit and marriage are man-made

In the image of our own egos.

Love is like a refreshing breeze on a warm summer day

But when man encounters Love in his room

He/she suddenly wants to close all the doors and windows

And trap it inside 

For himself.

Trapped into relationships and marriages.

The breeze stagnates and grows stale.

Please don't misunderstand me --

Neither relationships nor marriages are wrong;

They seem to be a worthy part of being human.

I love relationships; I get off on them!

They are Love manifested.

And so are relationshits and divorces.

Love is so much more than just its appearances.

Try this experiment....

Hold your hands cupped until a gently running tap.

Notice how some water stays for a while in your cupped hands,

And some just over-flows on by.

Even the water that stays moves on

Making way for more water. Yes?

Now try to hang on to that water.

Clench you fists under the tap.

What happens to the water you had in your hands?

What happens to the water that falls onto your closed fists?

Let love go;

Let it flow.

Whatever stays with you,

Stays of its own willing accord.

Whatever flows on by

Was never yours in the first place.

"Because you're mine......."

Puh-leeeze!!

Love does not make anyone or anything your property.

If you harbour any notions of ownership or belonging,

That is not Love.

"....for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God..."

Exodus 20:5

That's not God speaking; that's the froth of some storyteller's ego,

Picked up by a bunch of Levite priests around 500 BC looking for a monoply on worshiping rights.

To love is to let go.

We love in Freedom,

Or we do not love at all.