On True Love & Purpose
Why does true love begin in suffering?
What’s the point of a healthy body if the soul is not free?
What’s cancer to a person with a healthy soul?
Purpose is given in every part of life—why do we search for it?
A builder builds.
A teacher teaches.
A human loves.
A builder fights against decay.
A teacher fights against falsehood.
A human fights against evil.
A house is not decay.
A student is not falsehood.
A human is not evil.
So we fight—not with hate against people, but with love against evil,
with truth against falsehood,
with beauty against decay.
A builder who doesn’t build, a teacher who doesn’t teach,
and a human who doesn’t love—all fail.
But the builder who builds is fulfilled in his building,
the teacher who teaches in his teaching,
and the human who loves in his loving.
Even if the builder, teacher, and human are struck with illness,
they can still build, teach, and love—and so they are still fulfilled.
Even if they lose everything, they can still love.
Health is not the path to fulfillment.
Wealth is not the path to fulfillment.
Health and wealth may make life easier,
but they cannot give it meaning.
A builder who can only work with machines
has forgotten how to use his hands.
A teacher who can only teach with a computer
has forgotten the lesson.
A human who can only love through comfort
has forgotten how to truly love.
The builder who begins with his hands,
the teacher who begins with his books,
the human who loves with nothing in return—
they alone move forward.
Doing what is hard makes life easy.
Building for nothing in return is love for building.
Teaching for nothing in return is love for teaching.
Loving for nothing in return is love itself.
Love unconditionally, and love will fulfill you in return.
Nothing in this world matters without love.
Everything is empty without it,
and pleasure doesn’t last.
So stop searching for purpose.
Learn how to love from God—
who gave us love for the sake of loving.
Health, wealth, poverty, death, illness—
they are all bad without love.
They are all good with it.
Love is not a feeling or an opinion.
It is objective, and its meaning is revealed to us by God.
We must learn to love in order to truly live.
Otherwise, we are living in vain.
True love begins in suffering because True love is to love with nothing.