Detachment Is the Flip Side of Love

"I love the man who hates not nor exalts, who mourns not nor desires... who is the same to friend or foe whether he be respected or despised, the same in heat and cold, in pleasure and in pain, who has put away attachments and remains unmoved by promise or blame... contented with whatever comes his way."

-- Krishna. The Bhagavad Gita.

Heads detachment, tails love. It's one coin. You can't have one side without the other.

Krishna knew that, but in out culture we tend to forget that we need both love and detachment, if we want to live a joyous life. Instead, we equate love with attachment. We exalt desire and mistake detachment for aloofness or lack of care.

Equanimity, not passion, is the most fertile ground in which true love can grow. Acceptance of, and contentment with, what is allows us to love it all! Such love does not discriminate. It is a natural phenomena, like the sun and the rain which shine, and fall, on all equally.

Both the soil of equanimity and the seeds of love can only be found within. That is where the Garden of the Soul takes root, until one day it bursts forth in all its incredible colors and blossoms as love.

Your work today, and everyday, is inner work. Finding that still center within, a place where you are unbuffeted by the winds of change. And from there seeing the world through the eyes of detached love.

You can love the world right here, right now, just as it is, perfect even in its imperfections. Why wait?