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- From: fippen@ux2.cso.uiuc.edu (J. Fippen)
- Subject: We do not choose love; love chooses us.
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 19:43:30 GMT
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- t choose love; love chooses us.
- Love is shy. It is beautiful, yet it is shy. Love is not found
- in loud brash places; rather it is found in the quietness of a wood, or
- perhaps walking along a beach or path. Love is not found in smoke
- filled rooms or bars full of pushy people, because love is too quiet
- to esist in such an atmosphere. Not everyone will find love; they may
- find sex, but they will not find love. We do not choose love; love
- chooses us. And if we are to achieve the greatest happiness on earth,
- we must follow love. Someone said to me recently on this net "to find
- love we must take the big gamble" and this is a beautiful thought,
- because it recognizes that love does not come when we call, love
- come to us when we least expect it, and if we do not follow, love
- may never come to us again. We all crave love, yet few will heed the
- call when love looks our way, so we do not see. Some of those who
- heed the call will achieve that sublime state called "one". They will
- not sustain that lovely state, but they will be close to it, and they
- will spend the rest of their lives trying to again reach "one". This is
- life's highest state, the ultimate achievement for us all.
- I wish in vainhat we could all be there all of the time.
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- John Fippen fippen@ux2.cso.uiuc.edu
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