When a friend referred to the simple truth of love, my initial thought was, there is no simple truth. That only a great philosopher or mystic could provide a discourse about that. Then later, it came to me, that there is. The simple truth of love is best not being intellectualized. Its truth is how we live in it unconditionally with others. How it directs our lives; inspires our deepest yearnings; comforts our grief's; makes our joy ring out. Love is the most gracious, warm aspiration we can have. A deep companionship settles within, when we boldly, imaginatively, share our love.
John O' Donohue proposes: "The imagination is the creative force in the individual. It always negotiates different thresholds and releases possibilities of recognition and creativity which the linear, controlling external mind will never even glimpse. The imagination works on the threshold that runs between light and dark, visible and invisible, quest and question, possibility and fact. The imagination is the great friend of possibility. Where the imagination is awake and alive fact never hardens or closes, but remains open, inviting you to new thresholds of possibility and creativity." Anam Cara: Wisdom from the Celtic World.
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