I'm not doing anything, and yet I'm also doing the most important thing a man can do: I'm listening to what I needed to hear from myself.
Paulo CoelhoRead
Love accepts its companion unconditionally and allow each to grow in his or her own way.
Interpretation
True love embraces acceptance and personal growth.
This quote by Paulo Coelho emphasizes that genuine love involves unconditional acceptance of one's partner, allowing each individual the freedom to evolve and grow in their unique ways. It suggests that love is not about changing someone to fit your ideals, but rather supporting and nurturing their personal journey.
In practice
In a wedding speech highlighting the importance of acceptance in a marriage.
I'm not doing anything, and yet I'm also doing the most important thing a man can do: I'm listening to what I needed to hear from myself.
Each stone, each bend cries welcome to him. He identifies with the mountains and the streams, he sees something of his own soul in the plants and the animals and the birds of the field.
We need to clear our minds of bad thoughts.
Having the courage to take the steps we always wanted to take is the only way of showing that we trust in God.
The fool who loves giving advice on our garden never tends his own plants
Sometimes the Warrior feels as if he were living two lives at once.
If thou remeber'st not the slightest folly that ever love did make thee run into, thou hast not lov'd
Know that My Heart is mercy itself. From this sea of mercy graces flow out upon the world....I desire that your heart be an abiding place of My mercy. I desire that this mercy flow out upon the whole world through your heart.
You are one of my nicest thoughts.
Your hair is winter fire January embers My heart burns there, too.
Ask nothing more of me sweet; All I can give you I give; Heart of my heart were it more, More would be laid at your feet.
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
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