Roses are mysterious labyrinths. A rose represents a rare beauty which encompasses the senses with its delicate and graceful petals of eye-appealing color and hypnotizing sweet fragrance. It invites you into an unknown, yet desirable passion. Each bloom symbolizes love and peace, but at the same time, its thorns can produce an intense pain that can cut to the quick. Roses consume the soul while you walk towards the light at the end of life's tunnel. Each fallen petal either guides to your full purpose or sends you spiraling on paths within your heart's labyrinth.
What is the name of the rose? The name of the rose is PASSION. Passions reside in the hearts of spiritual beings. It's a flame burning to light your way, yet so many become lost......never finding their way. Passions should be the kinetic energy to keep you moving forward towards the TRUTH. The trick is to hold fast to the holy path and not get caught up in where our minds may lead you. Ego resides in the mind and takes the passionate focus off the TRUTH, and shines a glamorous light on self. If a passion becomes centered on self, then thorns of loss, despair, and pain prick the heart.
How can the rose remain in bloom? A rose will continue to bloom as a heart's passion is shared with others. Giving a portion of your passion away ignites a reaction and transforms the potential energy of the heart to kinetic energy......This action is inspiring, but doesn't come easy. Transforming energy is work which means you will have to put forth effort to force your ego to let go over a multitude of distances along the course of your path. As a heart's passion is given away over time, power of love is produced which energizes a mechanical advantage to moving others' passions towards the TRUTH. When a community of roses are in bloom, the fragrance of love is intoxicating and pressures are relieved which decreases the stress from the ego's masquerading efforts of destruction of life's true purpose and mission. The focus of a heart's passion is LOVE.....to love God with all our heart, soul, and mind.......and to love our neighbors as our self. Love is empowering. As LOVE is given to others, love blooms in your heart. Any other pursued passion leads to dark lonely tunnels. Your love of the game will lack efficiency. Your heart's inspiration will become nonrenewable and your rose will not be renewed.....refreshed. Your rose will stop blooming.
"Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth."-- The Name of the Rose, Seventh Day, Night
What if a heart's passion shared with a loved one doesn't produce empowering inspiration? Some spiritual beings are not receptive to a heart's passion. They don't understand the mechanism of love, so remain lost in the rose's labyrinth......going around in circles. When someone is unresponsive to love due to ego, love should be given, but even Jesus spoke of cleaning the dust off of your sandals and moving on...........You have more distance to cover on your path, and this type of unresponsiveness clogs up the flow of LOVE. Love which isn't allowed to flow causes pressure and develops cracks in its structure. Love's strength and courage disappear.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
-Lao Tzu
St. Francis de Sales, pray for my passion's focus.
St. Theresa the little flower, pray for my humility.
St. Theresa the little flower, pray for my humility.
St. Raphael the Archangel, pray for the healing of heart, soul, and body.
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