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Paucity of love too can get you closer to God


Attitude determines where you go in life. People say that true love gets you closer to God but I believe even paucity of love can get you closer to God if you have the right attitude in life.

Losing someone close to you, getting duped in a relationship, fight with a close friend or any reason that causes depletion of love in your life forces you to re-examine the way you have been living.

It feels good to be loved but anything traversing the outside-in trajectory isn't to be trusted. That’s why they say that God is within you. Trust only what is inside because that love will never leave you. People die, hearts get broken, girlfriends find new boyfriends & vice versa and so the love associated with it also vanishes. This absence of love then turns into hate, hatred towards the cause of the anomaly.

There are some people who spend all their lives hating the reason behind their suffering but there are some who introspect within and try to find out what is it that is hurting them so much. A proper self-introspection would reveal the flaws inbuilt in man - most of them forced upon by society. The biggest flaw is a man's EGO. A sense of 'ME' or 'I'. It is this ego most of the times that prevents us from being what God intended us to be. Once you lose your ego your body suddenly begins to feel lighter. You begin to feel much better. No externalities can hurt you now. You tune yourself inward. Your love now emanates from what you are. Your eyes now have a sparkle in them. There is new energy in your being - this the same energy that you had been depleting nourishing your ego. This surplus energy is visible to all and soon you see that people are drawn to you. But you have no ego so you welcome them with open arms, transfer your energy to them in the from of laughter, good thoughts or a sheer smile. These people who gain your energy spread it to whomsoever they come in contact with but their source will be you.

Unknowingly you have begun a chain reaction that spreads love in an unprecedented scale. Mahatma Gandhi, Karl Marx, etc... used this energy to mobilize thousands. But remember from where it all began. It originated from a paucity of love in your life. If you have the attitude to get back on your feet and live right, you will find God in everything - even in a place where there is no love...

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