Sunday 21 July 2013

SOME IMPORTANT LESSONS ON LOVE AND LOVING

I know many people, including myself, who want to be loved for what they do instead of what they are. I had always thought that if only I wrote enough books, I would be loved. You think that if you are important, somebody, who does interesting things, achieves this or that, you become lovable. Nothing can be further from the truth. You will be admired, or envied, but you won't be loved.

I have learned that this is a very important thing to learn. It is not something one learns once and for all, but is a process of continual remembering. The only way to be loved is to love; to learn to love; to become the kind of person for whom love and loving is important. This includes, first of all, loving oneself.

What was that line by the Beatles? The love you take is equal to the love you make.
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  1. Payson21 July 2013 at 08:38

    Yeah, Yeah, Yeah.....

    "The End" is a song by the Beatles composed by Paul McCartney (credited to Lennon–McCartney) for the album Abbey Road. It was the last song recorded collectively by all four Beatles,[1] and is the final song of the medley that comprises the majority of side two of the LP version of the album.

    McCartney said, "I wanted [the medley] to end with a little meaningful couplet, so I followed the Bard and wrote a couplet."[2] In his 1980 interview with Playboy, John Lennon acknowledged McCartney's authorship by saying, "That's Paul again ... He had a line in it, 'And in the end, the love you get is equal to the love you give,' which is a very cosmic, philosophical line. Which again proves that if he wants to, he can think."[3] Lennon misquoted the line; the actual words are, "And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make."[4]

    So true!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH9P_vwpLXk

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