Serves If It Wants To

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There are some things inviolate that
cannot be changed by belief or faith:
the free choice of a human being is
beyond our control, open only to love
and affection, honour and respect

On page 25 Shantaram wrote wisdom
sometimes is the opposite* of love which
survives because it is not wise – I don’t
agree; love is everywhere, as abundant
as sand on the beach

Only wisdom which manifests in honour
and respect for freedom and need, desire
and ability, level of development, taking
stock of reality and offering possibilities
of improvement

Fills love with discernment and makes it
powerful; love without ideals to direct the
energy is a destructive explosion, only
wisdom gives direction and meaning to
primitive urges

Rational, scientific ethic based on observation
leads to promoting life, only the freedom of
knowledge gleaned through learning, en-
ables humans to aim capacity to love in a
certain direction

Experience teaches all forms of exploitation
lead to destruction of freedom, wisdom is to
love unconditionally – without expecting
advantages, true love is cherishing the
independence of a beloved

True love delights in a spectacle presented
without awareness of our existence, true
love enchants by expressing approval and
adoration without expecting reciprocal
benefits

True love looks upon people as babies, beautiful
to behold, primitive and needy, adventurous and
unscrupulous, and admires the view, enjoys the
derring-do, serves if it wants to, from an adult
point of view that needs nothing

In return, no rewards, no recognition, exerting no
pressure, setting no requirements –
that is true love!

[*Therefore Wisdom always is the epitome of true
love, never the opposite; love which is not wise
never survives]

Gregory David Robert “Shantaram” Abacus 2004
Quoted from page 25.
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