Love – the Food of the Soul

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Love needs a climate of love, love needs a climate of gratitude, thankfulness. Love needs a nondemanding atmosphere, nonexpecting atmosphere. This is the second thing to remember.

never demand perfection. You have no right to demand anything from anybody. If somebody loves you, be thankful, but don’t demand anything – because he has no obligation to love you. If somebody loves, it is a miracle. Be thrilled by the miracle.

So the second thing to remember is: don’t ask for perfection, otherwise you will not find any love flowing in you. On the contrary, you will become very unloving. People who demand perfection are very unloving people, neurotic people. Even if they can find a beloved or a lover they demand perfection – and the love is destroyed because of that demand

To flow and grow in love needs no perfection. Love has nothing to do with the other. A loving person simply loves, just as an alive person breathes and drinks and eats and sleeps. Exactly like that a really alive person, a loving person, loves.

Love grows only in love. Love needs a milieu of love – that is the most fundamental thing to be remembered. Only in a milieu of love does love grow. It needs the same kind of pulsation around. If the mother is loving, if the father is loving – not only to the child, if they are loving to each other too – if the home has a love atmosphere where love flows, the child will start functioning as a love-being, and he will never ask the question, “What is love?” He will know it from the very beginning, it will become his foundation.

Love is a very fragile flower. It has to be protected, it has to be strengthened, it has to be watered; only then does it become strong