LoveSelfish love, centred on yourself, isolates you. Such "love" confines you to your own little shell preventing you to progress. If you place yourself in this standstill, wanting to enjoy everything and take without giving, you will turn around in a vicious circle and cut yourself off progressively from everybody. You will become a prisoner of your own attitude. Little by little, this attitude will extinguish in your heart the deepest aspirations that lead you to enjoy the greatness and freedom you have been created for. We need to learn to put aside our own selfish interests in order to think of others... through love. "I may be able to speak the languages of men and even of angels, but if I have no love, my speech is no more than a noisy gong or a clanging bell. I may have the gift of inspired preaching; I may have all knowledge and understand all secrets; I may have all the faith needed to move mountains - but if I have no love, I am nothing. I may give away everything I have, and even give up my body to be burned - but if I have no love, this does me no good.
Love is patient and kind; it is not jealous or conceited or proud; love is not ill-mannered or selfish or irritable; love does not keep a record of wrongs; love is not happy with evil, but is happy with the truth. Love never gives up; and its faith, hope, and patience never fail. Love is eternal." (1 Corinthians 13, 1-8)
Maybe you will say that if all of us were like that, this world would be Paradise. And that's right, we have been created to live like that. It is up to YOU... up to US. Don't wait for others to do it. Start yourself to live like that from this very moment. You will see how your life, and the life of those around you, will be transformed and changed. |