Desirelessness Is Strength
True strength comes only when we are rid of all desires and attachments...Strength is not an object we possess; it is a relationship between us and the world. If we desire something from the world, we are weak; if we do not, we are strong. To be truly strong requires nothing of the world. Desirelessness is a state of tremendous power.
-- Swami Parthasarathy
Love is an attachment to another self.
-- Claude Roy
I enjoyed the link between the two quotes placed together in the Sacred Space in this morning’s Times of India.
Strength is derived from independence and detachment. Yet love implies attachment to another person. And what I found so humourous? That, in accordance to these two quotes, loving someone makes you weak, because you become dependent on the person.
I wish to be independent and I wish to be strong.
-- Swami Parthasarathy
Love is an attachment to another self.
-- Claude Roy
I enjoyed the link between the two quotes placed together in the Sacred Space in this morning’s Times of India.
Strength is derived from independence and detachment. Yet love implies attachment to another person. And what I found so humourous? That, in accordance to these two quotes, loving someone makes you weak, because you become dependent on the person.
I wish to be independent and I wish to be strong.
posted by Melanie at 12:23 AM
1 Comments:
love another makes you weak. oh, yes! you are vulnerable. but it makes you strong at the same time coz, if you love somebody, you have won your strongest enemy, that is, selfishness.we are a mixture of contradictions: weakeness and strength, love and hatred, faith and fear. this is our greatness: despite of all our limits, we go on pursuing the good, we choose to love and we accept the weakeness - and the suffering - that loving implies.
wonderful creatures the human beings. indeed.
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