Learning from the heart

#Lessons on loving (By Daniel Gottlieb)

It seems as if the more we let go, the more we experience love. Love is beyond everything else- axiety, desire, hope, resentment. Love is openhearted, demands nothing, and needs nothing. It is more likely to visit when our desires are quiet, when we don’t need or want much, and when we accept that everything we love is not permanent but is with us at this very moment.

I don’t want so sound envious of Marley, but I do think life without a self-image, an ego, is quite different from what we experience as humans. I have been watching dogs and have learned this: They love life fully. We seem to cherish life, but most of us aren’t fully aware of this day by day. Dogs seem to know that life is good. Dogs also know about altruistic love. Because they don’t have egos, they seem to love loving. when we humans love, most of us are timid about opening our hearts all the way. The ego wonder: “Will I be hurt? Will I be loved back? Will my needs get met or will I be abandoned?” Dogs don’t have these qusetions. They just love.

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