When love is not madness, it is not love - Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Monday, February 8, 2010 at 2:44 AM | Posted by Jinu Peyeti
"I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism." 

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Faith isn't faith until it's all you are holding on to.

Saturday, February 6, 2010 at 11:01 PM | Posted by Jinu Peyeti
He gave me the best advice that I was given when I was at the center, which was to hold on. No matter how bad or difficult life becomes, if you hold on, hold on to whatever it is you need to hold on to, be it religion, friends, a support group, a set of steps or your own heart, if you hold on, just hold on, life will get better. He told me to forget about the fucking rules, that love doesn’t come around that often and when it does you've got to take it and try to keep it. 

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Breathe. Let Go.

Tuesday, August 11, 2009 at 12:31 PM | Posted by Jinu Peyeti
  • Life's metaphors are God's instructions.
  • You have just climbed up and above the roof. There is nothing between you and infinite. Now let go.
  • The day is ending. It is now time for something beautiful to turn into something else that is beautiful. Now let go.
  • Your wish for resolution was a prayer. You being here is God's response. Let go and watch the stars come out - on the outside and on the inside.
  • With all your heart, ask for grace and let go.
  • With all your heart, forgive him, forgive yourself and let go.
  • Let your intention be freedom from useless suffering. Then let go.
  • Watch the heat of the day pass into cool night. Let go.
  • When the karma of a relationship is done, only love remains. It's safe. Let go.
  • When the past has passed from you at last, let go. Then climb down and begin the rest of your life. With great joy.

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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Wednesday, May 27, 2009 at 12:09 AM | Posted by Jinu Peyeti
Book: The Storyteller's tale
Author: Omair Ahmad

"And isn't that the tragedy of love, it's utter and complete deceit, that you can only be true in it, that you only wish to reveal your full truth to the one you love, with no frills and no lies, that you want to be loved as you are? That you wish to be loved for your truth, and not your ability to hide it?

 

Yeh dil kab ishq ke kabil raha hai

Kahaan isko dimaagh-o-dil raha hai?

 

When has this heart been capable of loving?

When has it had the intelligence (to play the game) of love, this heart of mine…" 

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"Isn't that the brutal truth of love, that you can never choose the ache it leaves you with, that it doesn't matter if you offer to take the pain on your unprotected breast, it will still stab you in the back? She had no defences left anymore, and began to weep gently."

 

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After the leave taking (the story teller said) there is the leaving. And once you have left, you discover the  ten thousand things that you still carry - memories of touch, scent and sight.

 

"It is only after leaving that you discover the city within you has changed, and its roads wind now to different destinations. After the end of love there is the unloving, when you can engage in the ceaseless hunt for all those things to be taken out, and somehow discarded; when you can fight against the new roads and try futilely, to return to what you were before.

 

There is, though, another choice. Half the story of love is the discovery of it as you put it behind you. And with that discovery comes the knowledge that your own journey is still incomplete. The maps have changed, the continents have shifted, and the horizons are not the ones you remember. However, the road is still open  and there is much to see, but only if you have the courage to see that the first step is always a departure."

 

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That Love is all there is, is all that we know of love.

at 12:07 AM | Posted by Jinu Peyeti

Book: A million little pieces 

Author: James Frey

 

"The one word love means too little for what it is. It means everything and that is still not enough. It does not communicate even a fraction of the feelings involved. Love. The word is not enough for what it is. "

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"Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other." ~Carl Jung

at 12:05 AM | Posted by Jinu Peyeti
Book: Godan
Author: Munshi Premchand

(Mehta to Malti) "Platonic love and selfless love, in which the lover lives only for his beloved and sacrifices everything for her, are humbug. I've read stories in which the lover sacrificed his life because the dream of his life had other lovers. I attribute this to passion, not to love. Love is not a docile cow; it's a magnificent lion. And the lion allows no one to come near his prey. "

 

(Malti to Mehta) "If love is a lion, I better not come near it. I thought love was soft and sweet, like a cow.  I think true love is always above suspicion - for suspicion leads to violence. Love demands complete surrender. In the temple of love, rewards go to the devotee, not the critic. "

 

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Him that I love, I wish to be free -- even from me. ~Anne Morrow

at 12:04 AM | Posted by Jinu Peyeti
Book: The Zahir
Author: Paulo Coelho

"Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.

 

This force on earth  is to make us happy, to bring us closer to God and to our neihgbor, and yet, given the way that we love now, we enjoy one hour of anxiety for every minute of peace."

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