Make Felt Flower Brooch

"If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were."

Love can catch one unawares and when one falls in love, there is freedom. Any relationship that makes one feel in bondage is anything but love. For love ought to be liberating opening new horizons of understanding and a keenness to share your joy and peace with another. An egoistic and self centered relationship is nothing but a way of controlling others. A control freak can never truly fathom the deep flowering of love in one's heart. All the person is interested is in calling shots and play havoc with his or her partner's emotions. Love is not a trade off. It cannot be exchanged for anything. For it is the most powerful force on the planet. The most precious and sacred of all vows, love is one's communion with Nature.

In this day and age, what with widespread cynicism and all that, it is impossible to fathom a relationship that is not conditional. But then do we really understand everything that is there is to know? Most definitely not for love cannot be understood as it is beyond logic, reason and emotion. One cannot define it in any which way. The cynics might argue otherwise but the honest truth is that the love makes the world go around. The innermost desire of every human being is to be loved but perhaps the greater desire is to love. Notwithstanding all the skeptics and hate mongers, love is the reason for existence. Mankind would survive not by virtue of more sophisticated machinery and technology but only with tolerance and forgiveness. For when in one loves there is no desire to dominate or control anybody or anything.

"Jesus loved me and I knew not why. And I loved Him because He quickened my spirit to heights beyond my stature, and to depths beyond my sounding. Love is a sacred mystery. To those who love, it remains forever wordless- But to those who do not love, it may be but a heartless jest"

Love is the source of our being. It does not bind or make us blind but makes our vision clearer and opens newer vistas. One has to live every moment which is just not possible if our hearts are filled with hatred and loathing. Love cannot enter where there is the vanity and ego of the so called knowledge. Love is the eternal spring in the garden of heaven and it makes our lives more enriching. The greatest men and women have always been guided by the power of love in their pursuit of service to mankind. The guiding force of every positive development in the world is the desire to lead a more fulfilling life that makes us more complete. To fill in the void we often feel in our lives, there is a desire to chase materialistic pleasures that per se do not makes us any joyous. Love is forever expanding and not limiting for "Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed- for love is sufficient unto love."