Learn to Live with a Wife Full of Thorns

294.4Comment: The nightingale sang to a rose every night. One day, the rose asked: “Why are you singing to me?” The nightingale replied: “Because you are beautiful.” The rose thought about it and said: “But I am poking you with my thorns, with my spikes.” “Such is your beauty,” said the nightingale, “Without thorns you would not be so lovely.”

My Response: Clearly, the nightingale…

Question: Is in love?

Answer: Yes, he can sing and whistle.

Question: Please tell me, why do thorns add beauty? Why do they enhance beauty for the nightingale?

Answer: Because he loves.

Question: Does he love being pricked?

Answer: He loves and therefore loves even the thorns.

Question: So love is blind?

Answer: It is not blind, it evens everything out.

Question: Do you think marriage without thorns, in constant love and friendship, is possible?

Answer: If two idiots come together and somehow decide between themselves how to live, then, of course, they can fantasize.

Question: But will life proceed with thorns?

Answer: Yes, absolutely.

Comment: So you think it is impossible to live like…

My Response: No, of course not. What do we live for? We live to learn how to live with thorns. If everyone is an egoist, then what can there be? They should have a special wisdom to understand that it is better to force themselves to live peacefully and wisely.

Question: Above the thorns?

Answer: Above the thorns.

Question: But must there be thorns?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Please tell me how to love a wife with thorns? She has spikes, she humiliates you. That is how it is for you. She brings you down, and makes fun of you. How can this work? But you say it is still possible.

Answer: You must understand her. She had a certain childhood, a certain upbringing and qualities of character. I think you should not concentrate on being pricked like that.

Question: What will this understanding of the reasons give me? I am in pain.

Answer: No, you will begin to understand these are all her natural reactions that she has no control over.

Question: Can I cover it all with love? Is this what they call “covering with love?”

Answer: Yes, love covers all flaws.

Question: Tell us please, can we artificially create “spikes?” Take a couple, that is, as you say, “thornless.” Can I act out “spikes”?

Answer: Yes.

Question: In order to increase love?

Answer: For this you have to be wise.

Question: Do you call this wisdom?

Answer: If one uses the weakness of another in order for these weaknesses to lead to even greater contact between them, then this is wisdom.

Question: So if I want to introduce some kind of “thorns” in order for us to have more contact, so love would somehow increase between us—is all this necessary?

Answer: Sure.

Question: I will ask a general question. We usually reveal everything up to the global level. I wonder if a person lives in some country. This country is pricking people all the time with taxes, wars, poverty, all kinds of humiliation. But one continues to live there and says it is beautiful, and he loves it, and this is his homeland. What is it?

Answer: So he loves it. That is, even if it is all seemingly so, he feels this way.

Question: Does he feel it?

Answer: Yes, he feels it is all bad, disgusting, cruel, and so on; all the same, deep down he is attached to it and loves it.

Question: Then can you reveal the concept of love again? Now you said “he loves.” What does it mean?

Answer: Love is when, despite everything, in all the relationships between one and the other—it does not matter if it is a man, a country, a woman, a family, no matter what—love is when you value another person’s modulus. It is like in mathematics when you do not take into account whether it is a plus or a minus.

Question: Is it possible to live like this?

Answer: I see it is possible sometimes. And this is called love.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 8/12/24

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