I read an interview this week which was incredibly powerful. I captured my notes for today’s post.
It started with a question: Young man, why are you eating that fish?” The young man says “Because I love fish.” The man says “Oh, you love the fish. That’s why you took it out of the water and killed it and boiled.” He says “Don’t tell me you love the fish, you love yourself. And because the fish tastes good to you–therefore you took it out of the water and killed it and boiled it.”
So much of what we call love is ‘Fish love’.
If I give something to you, I’ve invested myself in you. And since self-love is a given–everybody loves themselves. Now that part of me has become in you, there’s part of me in you that I love. So true love is a love of giving, not a love of receiving.
“People make a serious mistake in thinking that you give to those whom you love. And the real answer is you love those to whom you give.”
Rabbi Dessler
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