Bhakti Yoga - The Path of Love

The story of my life is nothing more than a long journey, from what I believed myself to be to what I truly am. It is a tale of transcending the personal and the universal, the partial and the total, the illusory and the real, the apparent and the true. My life is a flight beyond the temporal and the eternal, darkness and light, the human and the divine. This story is not public but profoundly private and intimate.

Only what begins, ends; only what starts, finishes. One who lives in the present is neither born nor dies, because what lacks a beginning never ends.

I am the disciple of a seer, an enlightened being, somebody who is nobody. I was initiated in my spiritual childhood by the moonlight. A seagull who loved flying more than anything else in life inspired me. In love with the impossible, I crossed the universe obsessed with a star. I have walked infinite paths, following the footsteps of those who saw.

Like the ocean that longs for water, I sought my home within my own house.

Many speak about love, write emotional poems, and compose romantic songs. However, few actually love. Many embark on passionate affairs, get married, have children, and eventually get divorced, all without ever having truly loved.

Using people to ease the pain of loneliness, many seek to fulfill an inner void with another's embrace. Yet very few dare to set out on the adventure of discovering the profound mystery of the human heart.

Many people see love as a means of pleasure and expect to have the fortune of stumbling upon it. However, very few are interested in what love actually is.

The search for love does not usually arise from the desire to love, but from the need to be loved. Efforts are therefore focused on becoming worthy of love. This implies being attractive to another; men seek power, wealth, fame, and recognition; women embellish their physical appearance. For bhakti yogis, however, love is an art connected to the development and evolution of their own capacity to love.

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