Feeling Love Outside of a Relationship
“There is no Love greater than Love with no object. For then you, yourself, have become love, itself.” ~Rumi
I have spent most of my life as a professional, half of that in Asia: managing a division of a company, doing long-term meditation retreats, and establishing cottage industries for impoverished refugees.
A long-term relationship was impossible since Asian men marry Asian women; European men had European wives and Asian lovers.
Along the way I thought I could give more value to the world by remaining single than being married with children.
I met a woman working at the UN who …