If You Love Someone

If you love someone, love them fiercely. There is in fierce love a kind of intoxication, a sorcery, a magic—peace folded within peace, like hands cupped in the shadow of a mother's shawl.

When you look into the eyes of the one you love, you will find the infinite joy of diving into an ocean. When you hear their voice, happiness will wash over you like song. A single text, a mere message from them will bring the serenity of poetry.

Fierce love is an opium of the heart. The beloved's rippling laughter will ring in your ears like the music of a waterfall. Even their stammered, fumbling words will seem like verses from an epic—incomparable, irreplaceable.

Yet fierce love carries with it a sweet anguish. Their smallest sadness will darken your entire world like gathering storm clouds. Their slightest distance will feel like thousands of miles have suddenly opened between you. The merest sullenness from them will make you believe the world itself is drowning in sorrow…

And still—you must love fiercely. How else will those who have never loved deeply know what nectar tastes like in paradise? How will those who have never burned in separation understand the magnitude of pain in such consuming fire? To truly live, one must know the taste of suffering.

Love is the most perfect and beautiful thing in this world. Love someone once—just once—and see. You will find your heart becomes as clear and transparent as a river's water. When you love, a person can forget even the greatest griefs with ease. Then the weight of the vast sorrows locked within your chest will feel light as cotton, and the large tears gathered in the depths of your eyes will seem as precious and tender as a freshly bloomed blue lotus.

The most wretched creature in this world is one who cannot love at all. Without love, a person sinks slowly, irrevocably, into despair.