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LOVE: What do separated parents love most?
... their children, themselves or the Law?
What follows was written by the Sufi poet Rumi.
The Path of Love
Our bodies, our minds, and even our souls are the abodes of love, not love itself. Love exists everywhere around us and penetrates everything - it is the treasure of this world, and by its very essence it cannot be kept captive within our own coffers.
True Love exists beyond the people we love. When we understand this the expectations we place upon others diminish: We are loved by existence itself, and so we do not need to feel rejected or hurt when a partner or friend isn’t able to love us the way we wish. When our feelings depend on no one we have attained a high state of realisation - our love is our own, our happiness is our own; we are responsible for the way we feel and there is no longer any need to ask others to provide us with these states.
This is an important step on the path of love: Link your spirit to love itself, open your heart to existence, choose love as your spiritual journey and you will never be disappointed in humans.
As a parent, you can choose to "fight for your rights" or to look after your children. Lawyers will invariably encourage you to try and win. They will represent the other parent as your enemy. The lawyers' high income depends on their ability to "keep you fighting".
Read The Path of Love again and think about what it really means. .
Concentrate on your children's lives and their future. Ignore the temptation to use yoru separation as an opportunity to punish or score points against the kids.
God is love.
Children are love.
Children love both parents and God. |