Friday, July 10, 2009

Spiritual affinity

"It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations” - Kahlil Gibran

8 comments:

Priti said...

The quality of love and the duration of a relationship are in direct proportion to the depth of the commitment by both people to making the relationship successful. Commit yourself wholeheartedly and unconditionally to the most important people in your life. – Brian Tracy

Mayank Trivedi said...

Quality of Love and duration of Relationship indeed are closely associated. they are directly as well inversely connected.

Directly when you understand each other and compromise with each other's weaknesses

Inversely when you misunderstand and bring ego between each other

priti said...

i guess in love there should be no word like compromise. instead of compromising they can improve on each other weaknesses.
if ego is there in a realtionship then love has no place to survive...

Vaibhav Bhandari said...

Somehow, i disagree to both of you here. Rather, my thoughts are in alignment with Gibran.

The time duration matters only in case of people who are into materialism, as they need time to adjust to a situation. Will a spiritual person need not adjust. He accepts. That's why this quote mentions about spiritual affinity; spiritual love.

What people generally call love is not love in true sense according to me. It has lot of hidden elements to it; some kind of hidden need. But on surface this need looks like love to common man. While spiritual love is pure; is unadulterated; above all needs; no hidden elements to it; only love exitis in pure sense.

I know practical life very is different from this gyaan but we are discussing a concept.

priti said...

I dont think that a need force a person to be in love.

Vaibhav Bhandari said...

Well, i didn't get you Priti. Can you elloborate more on this? I failed to understand from where 'force' came into discussion?

priti said...

u said love is a need. i dont feel the same. there should be no calculating mind involve in love. i think love is a mirror i.e. the reflection of yourself which you find in other person.
And relationship depends on how pure your reflection in the mirror is

Vaibhav Bhandari said...

If you read carefully, rather i have written "spiritual love is above all needs".