Many famous writers and poets from all over the world have written volumes on Love
When the mother sees that the child is going on a bad path, she reprimands him. The father restricts what he provides because he wants to let his children value what they are given. A teacher corrects the student to make him realise the mistake he made would lead him to his own failure and what can he do to correct them before it is time for no-return.
The underlying emotion in the mother or the father or the teacher is love. Because they care and love, because they want the best in the child, they reject or hold themselves from excessively loving. When something is provided all the time, the value of that reduces sometimes even taken for granted. In loving someone, it requires a lot of thinking, courage and disciplining of the mind to see clearly as to what is the effect of the love on the other. How does it mould the one being loved. How can it be best when being loved or when not being excessively loved or cared for. Practice of Love requires a lot of thinking and proper execution of resources and power.
Master Choa Kok Sui once said, too much love can make a person a liability to the society, love also implies to see when to stop, when to correct and when to care again.
Love really is not blind. It is out of love that we chose not the see the bad in the person but to ignore and embrace the good in them. So I quote Torkom Saraydarian from the book - The Flame of Beauty, Culture, Love and Joy where he says,
“Love is not only a giving, but also a rejecting act; not only a going out, but also a withdrawal; not only an allowing act, but also a preventing act. It is not only gentle and sweet; but highly disciplinary.”
Dr. P
