ALL LOVE IS EXPANSION,ALL SELFISHNESS IS CONTRACTION

BY:- Saarthak Agarwal

“Love is expansion and selfishness is contraction” is a famous line which

has been quoted by Swami Vivekananda.He wants to convey that a person
who loves is the one who has the ability to live. Also,he states that that one
who is selfish is the one who meets death.

It is true that one should always spread love among all the people. Love
can help in creating strong bondings and get every person by your side
during hard times. However, for selfish people,they usually don’t get help
as they only think about their own benefit and get their work done.

Jesus Christ, the messiah’s teaching is: ‘Love thy neighbor as thy own self.’
If the emotion of love were not so elevating, he would never have taught his
followers to love one another.

All great personages, philosophers, saints, and divine men and women
have given the message of love. When we love unconditionally we expand
ourselves. When we love others we actually acknowledge our own self in
them. People who loved their fellow brethren and sisters have become
immortal. Someone has very beautifully said:

'It is in loving, not being loved

The heart finds its quest;

It is in giving, not in getting

Our lives are blest.'

Selfishness or selfishness is the antithesis of love. A selfish man or woman
always puts himself before others. He/she is always planning to grab things

for himself or herself. Whenever a man or woman behaves selfishly, he or

she contracts himself or herself. He cuts himself form others.

Love is therefore the only law of life . He who loves lives, he who is selfish
is dying.Therefore love for love’s sake , because it is only law of life,just as
you breath to live

Love has the power to conquer everything in this world. On the other hand,
self centered nature worsens condition of life and contracts social
expansion.

One gets confined to only a few people and no body is ready to help in
times of danger or emergency. Hence this is just other way of saying that
love is nothing but expansion and selfness is nothing but contraction.

Some people prefer to love others without getting anything in return. On the
other hand, some people are concerned about self only. We should love
people just like a mother loves her son/daughter without expecting to get
anything in return. This kind of love is free from all selfness.

Love is one of the strongest feeling and expression that a person can feel
and this love brings a whole lot of positivity in one's life. It cannot be denied
that loving someone or something expands our world and our thought
process.

When a person loves, he opens himself up to a whole new world and new
opportunities and this is why it is said that love is all expansion. Loving
someone is not just a materialistic thing but a feeling that changes a person
completely.

Actually Sky is the limit for Love. Love is limitless. True Love can be
expanded breaking all barriers on its path. When a person is in love
everything around H(im/er) seems beautiful. There is no chance for
contraction. Love always comes with the thinking of giving and not taking.

Selfishness always comes with the thinking of only taking and not giving.
There is no space for other person happiness and so no chance of
expansion.
Selfishness on another hand is a feeling of being self-centred and such a
person can never look beyond himself. Such a person always thinks about
himself and no one or nothing else matters to him. A person thinking like
this can never expand himself and his area of thinking remains contracted
to himself only and any other thing related to him.

Selfishness contracts a person and that person remains in a shell

throughout his life. That is why life should be lived while loving everyone
else around us and not just ourselves.

Therefore summing up everything

live for yourself – selfishness

live for others - love

but here we have a question,

“why do you live for others ?”

the answer would be

“it makes me feel complete”

this answer also expresses a kind of selfishness

so,i call it ‘self love’ instead of ‘selfishness’

hence, selfishness is also a type of love.