Spiritual Work

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps

the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the

last test and proof, the work for which all other work

is but preparation.

                                           Rainer Maria Rilke

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Love is not for the faint of heart

It is never easy

Faux love, that we can do

That immersion in emotion and hormones we call love

But really loving?

Love when the other is selfish?

Or angry?

Or drunk?

Loving involves cherishing the other, flaws and all

Loving when they do not do what we want

When we do not get what we want

loving when we are hurt

when we feel rejected and abandoned

when we feel unvalued

loving when we too, are all of the above

Think about it

This is the real work of Spirituality

This is the only work

This is it

And I will know I have made my way to that place

Where I can love….

(Ah yes, there are some people I have not been able to “love”…….

  There is work to do ).