Falling in Love

Falling in love is a wonderful thing! There's no greater gift in human life than true love. If you fall in love, never let anyone say anything bad about it. If you hear such things, your heart will grow melancholy, but nothing will happen to the one who speaks. The responsibility for your happiness is yours alone.

Love is precious — there's no need to talk too much about it. What must be felt cannot be easily spoken. If you speak of it, your love might become cheap in the eyes of the one you tell; and it almost always does. People enjoy watching and making fun of others' love.

Some kinds of love make people selfish. Whatever I say is right! Whatever I think, they must accept! They must live exactly as I do! Thinking about my thoughts, my opinions, my needs — that's their only job! Keeping track of me all the time is their responsibility! They'll do whatever I say, because I love them. When some people fall in love, such beliefs and thoughts come into their heads. Yes, this too is a kind of love. How ugly this love looks!

Some kinds of love help you bloom. They bring out all the good within you. They teach you to think about and speak of the beauty in the person you love. The desire awakens to acknowledge their good qualities. Respect grows — for yourself and for them — and so does compassion. In such love, the mind's strength increases, courage increases, the desire to do good in life increases. All the hidden qualities within you emerge, one by one.

Falling in love makes you restless, but not all restlessness is love. Some restlessness springs only from desire. Which is love and lust, which is lustful love, which is loving lust, which is only lust, which is only love — whether people admit it or not, they know the truth in their hearts.

People see beauty in those they love. Because they see them as beautiful, they see themselves as beautiful too. Love that doesn't make you see yourself as beautiful will inevitably harm you. This is why true love teaches people gratitude.

When you truly love someone, you can tell them you love them. There's no sin in this. Some people are too shy to express their love. That doesn't mean they don't love. Women have very sharp intuition. Somehow they sense men's love, but say nothing. Not saying anything doesn't mean they don't want to hear words of love either. Most women like receiving declarations of love.

If you don't receive love in return for loving someone, your love doesn't decrease — it remains the same. The honesty of feeling is what keeps love alive. Under pressure from circumstances or reality, a person's voice might be silenced, but the heart carefully preserves the loved one. Distance, conflict, misunderstanding, separation — none of these can make love forget. In love, silence and the absence of love are never the same thing.

Never rush in love. What is mine will remain. What belongs to another will go. Life will somehow provide what it needs for living — there's nothing to worry about. If it happens that your love is pure but the person you love is tainted, you'll see that what remains in your life in the end is only love — the person you loved will disappear from your life. Whatever is good finds some excuse to stay in life. It's even possible that someone leaving your life means you've escaped some great danger!

I hope you've understood what I've written. If you haven't, then wait a little. If love hasn't entered your life, reading about love is far-fetched — even hearing about it feels tiresome! But whatever happens in your life, you'll be better off following one simple principle: your love is never something for someone else to make fun of.