Daily Meditation: Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Kissing - must be a conscious act

01/26/2010

All day long people meet and greet each other, but they do so mechanically, without awareness, even in families or between couples. For instance: a husband or wife leaves the house to go to work. 'Goodbye, darling; goodbye, sweetheart...' and they kiss. But their kiss is empty! They do it out of habit. As that's the case, why kiss? It's ridiculous. You must know how to give something to the person you kiss, something to enliven them, to instil new life into them. Or again, when a husband is upset and unhappy, he will go to kiss his wife to be comforted, and he gives her his sadness and discouragement. Men and women are constantly exchanging with one another, but what are these exchanges? God only knows - or the devils, more likely! No one is forbidding you to kiss; on the contrary, but you have to know how and when to kiss so that you communicate eternal life.