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How Quickly Feelings Can Change - 22 Mar 08

22 Mar 2008  Vrindavan, India

Category: Feelings

Swami ji played holi

Yesterday the energy of the Distance healing was wonderful. You can find peace in you when meditating. In this time my sadness went away. I was connected to so many wonderful people again. I said I would talk about the reason for my sadness today but on someone's wish I am not going to do this in public. I was anyway not going to talk about individuals. It is a common problem of disappointment.

Only this much should be said that I do not understand how someone can say 'I love you' on one day and on the next day 'I do not love you anymore'. I talked very long with my friend Thomas and he told that he and Iris also experienced this often. It seems to be common in the Western World. It also happens often with relationships. In my opinion it happens because the mind is turning and working busily on many thoughts at the same time but the feelings are not felt or not there. People do not feel what they are saying. But this is also dishonesty. If you do not feel it why do you say it?
One more thing should be said here: someone who says he is not angry should feel responsible not to make the other one angry through his behaviour.

Yesterday there was sadness and today there was colour madness. Before we started throwing colour on each other we applied mud on our bodies to protect us from the colour. However it helps only up to a certain amount of colour and there was so much colour and coloured water flying through the air that many of us are wonderfully pink again from head to toe. It was the last day of Holi, the colour festival. We will have a great memory of this as the colour will stay at least for a week on the white skin of my friends.
 

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Tags:: Anger, Love, Mind, Relationships, Feelings, Honesty, Holi

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I'm not sure if it's dishonest to change feelings quickly, I do know that you can't have much of a hold on your feelings if this is the case though.

Reply By Freddie on November 01, 2010 06:24


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Freddie, I agree. Feelings do change quickly, that is the nature of emotions. It's not necessarily dishonest to express a feeling that fades. But saying "I love you" to someone is not a feeling, in my opinion. It's not an emotion that fades quickly. People should be mindful of what they say to others, regardless of how much their feelings change.

By Emily on October 15, 2011

I love you. I do not love you. I wonder now what these things mean. Because I used to know, and I don't anymore. I used to think "this person no longer loves me" and it would make me sad, but now when I try to get the concept in my mind I cannot see love clearly, I cannot define it anymore.

Reply By Tanya on December 26, 2010 11:57


I can't believe this is a real photo!

Reply By Holly on December 26, 2010 11:51


Whoa! Pink attack! Looks like you guys have been rolling in a beet field.

Reply By Tonnage on November 07, 2010 12:20


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