Thursday, July 15, 2010

The way to heaven

Recently a new friend was made.
She came to the opening of the current exhibition in an Amsterdam photo gallery.
A person with an appearance that initiates wondering.
A charisma attracting attention.
Excellent reasons to connect.

And then some time later, in a message, she writes:
I wonder how to walk the road of love.

This is like a Zen statement.
A question that is impossible to answer with the purpose to neutralize the thinking.
Because, who on earth can explain how to walk the road of love?
Nobody in this world and therefore plenty of preachers, psychologists, guru's and other charlatans offer what they say is the only and true answer.
To get people into a religion and a church.
To charge them hard earned money for the psychotherapeutic session.
To make them pay for the Rolls Royces and diamond watches.
Or to confuse them with pseudo truths.

Besides making fabulous music, Madonna also writes most interesting texts.
Full of wisdom.
And she had something to say concerning the question of the new friend.
In her song "Don't tell me".
Where she sings:

Tell me love isn't true
It's just something that we do
Tell me everything I'm not but
please don't tell me to stop


What we can learn from this text is that we should not wonder about such things like how to walk the road of love.
And to simply walk the road without wondering.

There is a similar thing with walking in general.
We walk and don't think about how exactly we manage to walk.
As soon as we focus on the walking, how this precisely is going, we very likely will stumble and fall.

There are lots of things in life we better not wonder about.
Because wondering about certain things means we sabotage and blockade them.
The spontaneity disappears.
The things can't go by themselves anymore.
The natural flow is seriously disturbed.

Therefore it seems that the friend should discover that the key to walk the road of love is to just not wonder about it.
And how to stop wondering?
Just fall in love, don't think and let it go.
That's the way to heaven.



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1 comment:

Fred Wishnie said...

Glad to see that the passing of the Queen of Dreams didn't depress you for too long. What's it been, a week?? :-)