Live with love! Love means

forgiveness, compassion, hard work, enthusiasm and co-operation

Great thinkers and seers of the world have repeatedly said that only living a life full of love can result in success and happiness. This is a recipe that has been tried and tested several times over by countless numbers of people through the past millennia and success has always crowned those who consider love as the foundation of life. When you love life or the world in general, you acquire these qualities:

1. You find it easy to forgive many misdeeds and acquire the ability to walk ahead rejoicing. Small obstacles, hurts, insults and acts of misbehaviour from people to not remain embedded in your mind for long. You do not harbour ill will or feelings of revenge against them. By practicing the path of love, your mind remains clean like a shining mirror and reflects the best that life offers.

2. You are a more compassionate person. Compassion is not to be mistaken with pity. Feeling pity for a person is equivalent to being patronizing and feeling superior. When you feel compassion, you are one with the suffering of the person at least for a short time. You stand in his/her place and experience the pain of the ‘other’. You understand the viewpoint of the ‘other’. Your are able to help in wherever way possible and to create self confidence in the ‘other’ to overcome his/her misfortune by your words and deeds.

3. When you love something or someone you work hard for the comfort or success of that concept or person. For example, if you love your motherland you will see that no action of yours maligns the name of your country. If you love your parents, you will respect them and comfort them whenever necessary. If you love your spouse and children, you will work hard to provide comfort and generate happiness for them. Most of all, if you love life, you will smile and generate a beautiful sense of security and happiness around you, wherever you are.

4. Love creates enthusiasm. When the negatives in your nature are washed away by love, your spirit is free to soar high. The very desire to rise from mundane circumstances generates energy which makes your life more full of activity and fun. Enthusiasm for things you want to do make your actions enjoyable and extraordinary.

5. When you love people, co-operation becomes a way of life. You empathise with everyone’s goals and needs and accommodate their goals within your own. You aim at achieving common goals, which pool in energy and strength when they are achieved. Sharing goals also leads to the enrichment friendships and relationships.