EASSY ON : All love is expansion all selfness is contraction
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The tug of war between love and self-ness
Love has the power to conquer everything in this world. On the other hand, self centered nature worsens condition of life and contracts social expansion.
One gets confined to only a few people and no body is ready to help in times of danger or emergency. Hence this is just other way of saying that love is nothing but expansion and selfness is nothing but contraction.
Some people prefer to love others without getting anything in return. On the other hand, some people are concerned about self only. We should love people just like a mother loves her son/daughter without expecting to get anything in return. This kind of love is free from all selfness.
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All love is expansion all selfness is contraction
Jesus Christ, the messiah’s teaching is: ‘Love thy neighbor as thy own self.’ If the emotion of love were not so elevating, he would never have taught his followers to love one another.
All great personages, philosophers, saints, and divine men and women have given the message of love. When we love unconditionally we expand ourselves. When we love others we actually acknowledge our own self in them. People who loved their fellow brethren and sisters have become immortal. Someone has very beautifully said:
'It is in loving, not being loved
The heart finds its quest;
It is in giving, not in getting
Our lives are blest.'
Self-ness or selfishness is the antithesis of love. A selfish man or woman always puts himself before others. He/she is always planning to grab things for himself or herself. Whenever a man or woman behaves selfishly, he or she contracts himself or herself. He cuts himself form others.
Hence it is rightly said all love is expansion all self-ness is contraction.