When I was first married, I thought there was only one person I could be in love with. So, that became my wife. There were people that I loved, but there was only my wife to be in love with. I didn’t really think about love as something I could do at work, or at sport. I said, “Love is for my wife, and everything else is something else”. It’s like putting on a straight jacket. It’s inhuman because anything we do in life without love is competitive and dry. So in my business, I was not interested in loving what I was doing, I was dry and tough, which made my leadership very aggressive. When my divorce came, I realised that I had been inhuman to myself. I needed to actually be in love with my world, and with what I did, in order to be in love with a partner. Then my relationships were not little love moments in an otherwise hard working life, my relationships were a magnificent extension of what I already had.
Sacred Love is a high and conscious alter on which you place the ritual of bond. It is sacred because there is nothing that can be allowed to intrude on it, a reverence, a devotion. It is a place from which the rest of life, including your work and play, can be undertaken, yet, left undisturbed. It is a matter of priority, finding what is the most important thing in your life. It is a choice. The only thing that can come between you and your honeymoon love, are the choices you make. This chapter is about those choices.
Love is never fixed in a relationship, but always sits as the pillar of strength to bind it. Love is the solution to challenges. Love resolves emotional and personal issues that come to the surface in relationships. Love turns boredom into joy, criticism into laughter, heartbreak into a bond of mateship. Love is more than fun. Love is more than all the pleasures your flesh can imagine. Staying in love is a journey, not a destination. Staying in love is the most beautiful gift of life.
To stay in love, to keep from blocking your love, you must stay humble. If you don’t want to be humble, stay single. Humility is at the heart of love. Sacred love cannot be a competition to see who knows more, does more, or who lives up to some moralistic ideal. A relationship without passion and friendship is really painful - two ungrateful people, self-indulging their ego, rejecting each other, unable to face reality, blaming each other. That is hell. In your love life, you may be the greatest CEO on the planet, but in your relationship you are nothing. Dust, sand, blood and bone. There’s nowhere to hide unless you find a relationship where substitutes are the primary source of adrenalin.
About the Author:
Chris Walker is a world leading change agent, an environmentalist and author of more than 20 books. Born and bred in Australia, he consults to people and organisations throughout the world on improved relationships, health and lifestyle through the application of the Universal laws of Nature. The result he offers is that we stay balanced, share loving relationships, work with passion, enjoy success, and live our personal truth. To learn more about Chris’s work and journeys to Nepal, visit http://www.chriswalker.com.au
Article Submitted On: October 25, 2006
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