Do not hesitate to love and to love deeply. You might be afraid of the pain that deep love can cause. When those you love deeply reject you, leave you or die, your heart will be broken. But that should not hold you back from loving deeply. The pain that
comes from deep love makes your love ever more fruitful. It is like a plow that
breaks the ground to allow the seed to take root and grow into a strong plant.
Every time you experience the pain of rejection, absence or death, you are faced with a choice. You can become bitter and decide not to love again, or you can stand straight in your pain and let the soil on which you stand become richer and more able to give life to new seeds.
The more you have loved and have allowed yourself to suffer because of your love, the more you will be
able to let your heart grow wider and deeper. When your love is truly giving and
receiving, those whom you love will not leave your heart, even when they depart
from you. They will become part of your Self and thus gradually build a
community within you. Those you have loved deeply become a part of you. The
longer you live, there will always be more people to be loved by you and to
become part of your inner community. The wider your inner community becomes, the
more easily you will recognize your own brothers and sisters in the strangers
around you.
Those who are alive within you will recognize those who are alive around you. The wider the community of your heart, the wider the community around you. Thus the pain of rejection, absence and death can become fruitful. Yes, as you love deeply, the ground of your heart will be broken more and more, but you will rejoice in the abundance of the fruit it will bear.
Henri J. M.
Nouwen,
The Inner Voice of Love
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