Love Will Always Prevail

The crucial question for all of us is: What Stays when all of that is gone, what doesn't suffer from the law of impermanence?

A friend wrote this to me and it is the clearest advice I think I have ever had. Not that it is new. I have heard the gist of it many times and it makes sense under anyone's ideology. It is just that when under stress, I tend to forget the Truth and that is supposed to be a capital T.

The Way is not an empty road designed just for me to get from here to there. It is a thorough fare filled with every imaginable situation. I am going to get from here to there no matter what I do. How I do it, has more to do with me.

I cannot avoid coming into contact with some disturbing, or even painful things, but I can keep my perspective when this happens. I always go back to Thich Naht Hahn's "in this moment all is well."

Except that sometimes I forget that and need good friends and wise teachers to lift me up, give me a hug and say, "It's okay. The crucial question for all of us is: “What Stays when all of that is gone, what doesn't suffer from the law of impermanence?"

What doesn't suffer from the law of impermanence? Ah, that is the Truth, or God, or the Light.

Or as my friend says, "Love will always prevail, honey because LOVE is all there is."