Exploring True Love
Secrets of the Garden
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“What is love? Does true love really exist? I know how to be loved, but what does it mean to love another person? Do I have the capacity to love someone else?” Nothing in life is more important than love. No matter what difficulties you encounter during your life, you can overcome them if you have love. If you do not have love in your life, no amount of wealth or material success can ever fill the void. Friends and admiration can be purchased with money, but love is a quality of the spirit that can only be experienced through total giving of the self. The most important things in our lives are unseen. If we seriously reflect on the nature of love, we can understand that love comes from God. However, it is not easy to find God or true love, and many people seek a replacement in alcohol, drugs or self-centeredness. If we truly met God, and felt deeply that God loves us, all loneliness and unhappiness, sickness, suffering and sorrow would vanish. We know this, but we can not find the experience we seek. God is the source of love, but it is obvious that at some point in human history, a vast gulf developed between man and God, so that man has never been able to know the love of God. This event is described in Genesis, the first book of the Bible, in the story of Adam and Eve. Throughout human history, very few human beings have been able to understand, experience and practice true love. The shallow, superficial love portrayed in literature and on film is rampant. Rarely has anyone probed the root cause of confusion and suffering in human relationships. This book, by examining the situation of our first human ancestors as depicted in the Bible, tries to resolve misunderstandings and clarify the origins of human suffering.
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“What is love? Does true love really exist? I know how to be loved, but what does it mean to love another person? Do I have the capacity to love someone else?” Everyone wants to experience love, yet it often seems that the people we most want to love become antagonists, and that the harder we try, the more distant we become from each other.
God is the source of love, but it is obvious that at some point in human history, a vast gulf developed between man and God. High divorce rates, racism and terrorism, and animosity between religions are proof that we are far from realizing the ideal of love. If we truly met God, and felt deeply that God loves us, all loneliness and unhappiness, sickness, suffering and sorrow would vanish. We know this, but we can not find the experience we seek.
This book is an investigation into the historical resentments that have interfered with love and come between men and women, parents and children, siblings, and friends, even when their deepest desire was to live together in harmony and mutual fulfillment. Learn how you can overcome the past, develop your own capacity to give of yourself, and see those around you with eyes of true love.
About the Author
Makoto Maeda was born in Japan and graduated from Waseda University. He worked as a missionary in several African countries, including Senegal, Ivory Coast, Democratic Republic of Congo and Zimbabwe. He now resides in the United States and writes on philosophy and world affairs.