Evolution of Love 2

LOVE AND HAPPINESS ARE HERE

LOVE AND HAPPINESS ARE HERE

Q: It’s as if certain beings, certain things – beauty, for example, or things that comfort us, soothe us – have the power to make us forget ourselves, and stop being an obstacle to love, which is this space behind everything else. Is that why we spend our whole lives searching for things, lovers, works of art, landscapes? Are we in fact searching for this space?

Yolande: As long as love has not found itself, yes. In the past, I thought I could find this love with a man, or with my son. I always believed in all of that – until this ‘thing’ seized me. Then I completely abandoned myself to it, and it allowed me to see life in such a beautiful, light way that I fell in love with it.

I devoted the first few years to observing this ‘thing’ and it has totally transformed me. It is as if I was living something very passionate with this ‘thing’. Before, I believed that well-being, happiness and love existed outside of me; and suddenly I discovered that love was not outside, that it did not depend on anything; it depended on no object, on no state. Love and happiness were here, within. There was no longer any need to search for them without.

This well-being, this ‘thing’ that makes you feel so alive, loved and loving, it comes before everything. It is there.