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passion is but a prelude to Years of gradual unfolding

Some people mate for life. Perhaps their love affair starts with infatuation, passion, and eroticism.  Eventually it gives way to a more stable companionship .  Not all couples pass this transitioin period intact, but those who do find a new mode of relating to one another.  Devoted lovers find that minor faults can be accepted.  At the same time, they find acceptance in spite of their own inherent shortcomings and insecurities. 

Mature love is patient, selfless, generous, and kind. 

the lover becomes more important than the self.  In love, we find trancendence and a unity that is unattainable alone.

Many sages speak out against romantic love.  'can it be that they have never felt it or that they have been bitterly disappointed themselves?  Individuals should know themselves well.  If they are meant for love they will know

Unfortunately, the other is divine and divinity dwells in the other. Through love one can come to know the beauty of unity and wholeness.    Without the female, the male element is static and sterilel  Without the male element, the female

is boundless potential without a catalyst.  Through  unification, we find selflessness purity, and divinity.

I have been advised to look in the mirror and ask for my perfect soul mate for me. and that is what I am doing, even more times than looking in the mirror, whenever I think about it,

Tao's momement has been compared to the flow of rivers.  Its vastness has been compared to the oceans.  Somepeople are content to float here and there and with the tide but for others, such passivitity is impossible.  We have to navigate.

     Like early explorers on the high seas we know where we want to go.  The wisdom of those who went before us is like a map.  The truths regarding Tao are like the stars.  We determine our goals, and we set out according to what we know and what we learn.  The future is always uncertain.  That is why it is important to objectively evaluate where we are on our spiritual path.  

    So if you are confronted with a pivotal decision and cannot think of any other way to act, wtite down all the good things and all the bad things about a given situation.  Also include how much more you want to do.  See if staying on your course will give you what you want.  If not, change, no matter how deeply that will disrupt your routines.  Some people never know where they are in life, and that is one of the biggest reasons why they are unhappy. 

When we dream, the experience is often deeply involving.  Frightening dreams make us awake trembling and sweating.  Pleasurable dreams Bleave us with lingering desires and good feelings.  Certain dreams are a form of healing, a way for our minds o recircuit and adjust themselves.  No matter what, these dreams have no objective reality in our waking world.  

Imagination is also a form of mental involvement.  It is a way of projecting our thoughts into believavle images to be contemplated and manipulatedl  We can play with our imagination, use it to inspire creative projects.

Both imagination and dreams are similar activities of the mind, and yet they differ in the level of conscious participation that they permit.  In the case of the dream, there is a total suspension of rationality and consciousness, so there is little or direction possible.  There is no mode of control.  By contrast, imagination is a tool through which we can make or lives better, different and creative.  By cooperating with it, we can achieve things that "we never dreamed Possible."