Book: Forty rules of love

The search for Love changes us. There is no such person who would not Mature along the way. Barely start searching for Love - and immediately changed inside and out.

Her husband, David, a successful dentist, worked hard and made a good living. Mrs. Rubinstein realized that binding their feelings are not mad passion, but always be aware that this and to expect impossible after years of living together. Not passion keeps the marriage, and on much more important things - on the understanding, affection, compassion, the ability to forgive. Compared with all this love fades into the background. Passion is good only in novels or movies.

Reason and love are made of different materials. <...> Mind of men knits knots and risks nothing, but love everything unravels and all risks. The mind is always cautious and advises, "Beware of excessive enthusiasm." And love said, "Oh, it's all downhill! Indulge in all serious!" The mind is not easy to cheat, but love is easy to mix with the dirt. However, this dirt can be hidden treasure. A broken heart hides a treasure.

The mother knows that there is no birth without pain, without pain the mother cannot give life to his child. Similarly, the essential difficulties when it comes from another "I". The clay to harden, you have to pass through the fire. Love to become perfect, you need to go through the pain.

... I'm always amazed at how drastically changing people, becoming part of the crowd. Ordinary men never before seen in the violence - artisans, merchants, peddlers - turned almost into beasts, they should have come together in a crowd.

I knew a man who every night, drank liters of wine, and this did not prevent him to have fun, sing songs, and then sleep soundly until morning. But I knew and others who have become monsters, once they had to swallow a few drops. If the same wine makes some hilarious, others angry and belligerent, then perhaps the wine is to blame?

If you want to change the attitude of others to you, should be the first thing to change their attitude. Until you learn to truly love yourself, you, too, no one will love.

Religion and spirituality are two different things, and I think the gap between them has never been so profound as in our days.

Faith without love is just a word; words are weak and lifeless, vague and empty, because they have no true feelings.

The man who thinks he has the answers to all the questions, the personification of ignorance.

Humility does not mean weakness or submissiveness. It does not lead to fatalism or submission. On the contrary. In humility laid a real force, which Matures within a person. The one who humbles himself before the sacred essence of nature, to live in unbroken peace and serenity, even if the whole world will plunge into chaos.

The real dirt is inside. Everything else is easily washed off. There is only one kind of mud cannot be washed with water, this stain of hatred and bigotry, corrodes the soul. You can cleanse the body by abstinence and fasting, but only love can make a clean your heart.

Hell is here and now. And Paradise too. Do not be afraid of hell and dream of Paradise, because Paradise and hell are constantly in the human soul. Every time we comes love, we find ourselves in Paradise. Every time we hate, envy or fight, we find ourselves in the fire of hell.

And how will they know what love is until they experience it? Love cannot be explained. It can only be experienced. Love cannot be explained, but it explains everything.