A Stroll Through Love

To walk the path of love is more than allowing oneself to feel; it is allowing oneself to be transformed. Loving is a journey that reveals, expands, and lays bare our depths.

By Acharya Tadany Cargnin dos Santos.

Published in Diário de Santa Maria, December 18, 2025.

Love has accompanied humanity since its very first steps, yet despite being universal, it does not manifest in the same way in everyone. Each being carries a unique way of feeling, expressing, and offering love to the world. In every individual, love reveals a singular face, marked by nuances that are never repeated. It is as if each heart possessed its own emotional grammar, conjugating in its own way the great universal language of affection.

This plurality transforms love into a vast set of languages: some gentle like a whisper, others intense like a cry from the soul. Some silent and discreet, others exuberant and overflowing. All of them, however, paint a sensitive and dynamic panorama, a mosaic of souls intertwining and offering the world their own version of loving. And it is precisely this diversity that makes love so profoundly human and infinitely beautiful.

To walk the path of love is more than allowing oneself to feel; it is allowing oneself to be transformed. Loving is a journey that reveals, expands, and lays bare our depths. It is to navigate oceans of restlessness, desires, memories, and expectations. It is to fly through skies populated by cherished memories, secret hopes, and, above all, by the apparent contradictions that inhabit the human soul.

These contradictions, often mistaken for weaknesses, are in fact sacred doorways to our inner truth. They reveal our most authentic, sensitive, and carefully guarded layers. In love, there is no place for masks, for one who loves encounters their own essence.

For this reason, loving also becomes a path of self-knowledge. When we love, we shed the defenses we have built over time, just as when we are loved, we behold our own image reflected in the generous and welcoming gaze of the other. Love awakens us from automatism, returns us to presence, and invites us to live with greater depth and awareness.

Love is a bridge, a mirror, and a path. At times it appears as a luminous encounter; at others, as silent renunciation. But in any of its forms, it always represents an opportunity for inner expansion, for it broadens our vision, softens our boundaries, and reconnects us with what is most human and most divine within us.

Thus, to love truly is also a spiritual act. In recognizing the beauty of the other, we recognize the sacredness of life. And in offering our best to the other, even if it is only a gesture of tenderness or presence, we touch what is highest within ourselves.

In this way, a stroll through love is not merely a crossing of feelings, but a return to what is essential. It is an invitation to surrender, to listening, to compassion, and to deep presence before the vastness that we are and the vastness that the other also is.

To love is to allow oneself to live on the subtle frontier between the visible and the invisible, between what we feel and what we become by feeling it. For love, when lived in truth, becomes a path of revelation, a journey that, like every spiritual journey, leads us back home, that is, to what is most intimate and noble within us.

Therefore, love, and allow yourself to be loved.

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Translated to English by ChatGPT.

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