Thursday, February 24, 2011

Paradox of love

"We must face the fact that to be loved, we must be lovable," Father Chin preached. "When a person orients his life towards satisfying his own needs, he is self-centred. He is not lovable. If, however, a person seeks not to receive love but to give it, he will become lovable, and he will certainly be loved in the end."

The problem is we are all clutching to our own life-rafts. Everything we do is to achieve our own happiness.

Loving others can be truly accomplished only when the focus of our minds and all our actions results from concern for another and not concern for ourselves.

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