A Piece of My Heart

One day a young man was standing in the middle of the town proclaiming that he had the most beautiful heart in the whole valley. A large crowd gathered and they all admired his heart for it was perfect. There was not a mark or a flaw in it. Yes, they all agreed it truly was the most beautiful heart they had ever seen. The young man was very proud and boasted more loudly about his beautiful heart.

Suddenly, an old man appeared at the front of the crowd and said "Why, your heart is not nearly as beautiful as mine." The crowd and the young man looked at the old man's heart. It was beating strongly, but it was full of scars. It had places where pieces had been removed and other pieces put in, but they didn't fit quite right and there were several jagged edges. In fact, in some places there were deep gouges where whole pieces were missing.

The people stared -- how can he say his heart is more beautiful, they thought? The young man looked at the old man's heart and saw its state and laughed. "You must be joking," he said. "Compare your heart with mine. Mine is perfect and yours is a mess of scars and tears."

"Yes," said the old man, "yours is perfect looking but I would never trade with you. You see, every scar represents a person to whom I have given my love - I tear out a piece of my heart and give it to them, and often they give me a piece of their heart which fits into the empty place in my heart, but because the pieces aren't exact, I have some rough edges, which I cherish, because they remind me of the love we shared."

"Sometimes I have given pieces of my heart away, and the other person hasn't returned a piece of his heart to me. These are the empty gouges -- giving love, is taking a chance. Although these gouges are painful, they stay open, reminding me of the love I have for these people too, and I hope someday they may return and fill the space I have waiting. So now do you see what true beauty is?"

The young man stood silently with tears running down his cheeks. He walked up to the old man, reached into his perfect young and beautiful heart and ripped a piece out. He offered it to the old man with trembling hands. The old man took his offering, placed it in his heart and then took a piece from his old scarred heart and placed it in the wound in the young man's heart. It fit, but not perfectly, as there were some jagged edges. The young man looked at his heart, not perfect anymore but more beautiful than ever, since love from the old man's heart flowed into his.

Author Unknown

Never give up hope!

Someday, someone,
Will walk into your life and make you realize
Why it never worked out with anyone else...

Love thoughts

Love comes to those who still hope even though they've been disappointed, to those who still believe even though they've been betrayed, to those who still love even though they've been hurt before.


"The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called Love and feel ...the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed..." Jiddu Krishnamurti

"Beauty is not in the face; Beauty is a light in the heart."  Kahlil Gibran

"A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love."  Mother Teresa

Bliss

...because two bodies, naked and entwined,leap over time, they are invulnerable, nothing can touch them, they return to the source.

...There is no you, no I, no tomorrow, no yesterday, no names, the truth of two in a single body, a single soul, oh, total being...
- Tagore

What is wrong and what is right...

Good, bad, right, wrong are common words and expressions used in daily life.
Most of us are trying to do good and right things, helpful actions, but good and right for whom? For ourselves, obviously.

When we consider some incidents as good or bad, that is a kind of value judgment. Such value judgments may not always be valid. Why? Because of different values and judgment.

But which is the general signification of wrong, bad, evil...? Let's make some researches and find...
"A wrong or being wrong is a concept in law, ethics, and science. In a colloquial sense, wrongness usually refers to a state of incorrectness, inaccuracy, error or miscalculation in any number of contexts. More specifically, being "wrong" refers to a situation where in an individual has made an error or misjudgment."(Reference)

But misjudgment might be both ways, right?Nobody is perfect and it is humanly to do mistakes...




So goodness or badness is only a matter of our understanding of the general scheme of life.

Some things we do and consider to be good, for us (and not only for us if we care, but also for our friends), might be appreciated as bad or wrong by others. How is this possible?

A deep contemplation over the events and experiences of life necessarily follows the experiences of deprivation or abundance.

Sometimes we are trying to help people around us without being asked for help, but the result might not be all the times kind and as we expected. Even we are are not asking for anything in return for helping, we are judged as being wrong...still we try to help...

Some of us might be aware on things others are not aware and here comes our feeling of offering unasked help.

Most of the times we don't see our shadows, our inner weakness, because of Ego or blindness, but mirroring in others we can find out our inner selves.


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What we should learn from this advice above given by Rumi?
I think first we have to not judge and if we need to conclude, we should to think detached ...


"WRONG"-Depeche Mode



"I'm not guilty" - George Harrison



Still trying to find out more on what is wrong and what is right...

Any help, or comment would be appreciated ...

Thank you!

Read also:
Are you prepared to Love Divinely?
Wisdom of Love
Love Sayings in words and Images

Sayings and Inspiration

About love many things have been written and will be. Love is an endless source of inspiration in daily life.
In fact what inspires us? Where from comes inspiration to all artists, known and unknown? I think this is a question everybody should think about.

Some people get inspired by music. Simply listening different songs can rise their vibration and if mind is calm, soul is clean, heart is pure, energies in chakras are circulating properly, i think everyone can become inspired and create!

What keeps us all connected? Love, for sure!

Sharing some wonderful sayings by Kahlil Gibran and followed by some nice pictures.
I hope it will inspire you too !


I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.


If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.


If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.


If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?



Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.


The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.




To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.


To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.


In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.



A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?


Your friend is your needs answered.



When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.


Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.


Love, Light and Inspiration!