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The Enchanted Cottage
By Judith Pennington
The Enchanted Cottage
by: Judith Pennington
Decades ago, I saw a metaphysical movie that wonderfully illustrates the alchemical power of love. In
"The Enchanted Cottage," a homely, self-effacing maid and a blind, crippled war hero fall in love. She
blossoms into an attractive, self-confident woman and he into a charming, handsome country
gentleman, both happier than ever before.
Oliver and Laura ascribe their transformation to the legendary enchanted cottage, but one day, its spell
is broken by the pitying comments of people who see them as ugly and broken. The magic disappears
until a magnificent tone poem played on piano by a composer friend opens their eyes to the true
alchemy in every life: the beauty and music of love.
Sounds like a fairy tale, doesn't it? Yet this is exactly what happens in romantic love. The world is
suddenly beautiful, and we laugh open-heartedly in joy, walking on air. In Buddhist psychology, this is a
state of "attraction." Its opposite, "aversion," disenchants us from love.
Life is precisely what we make of it, isn't it? Love resides within each heart, waiting to be recognized as
the transformer that it is: an infinitely powerful vibrational expression of the One Word, literally the
"uni-verse." This transcendent viewpoint, with its singular quality of attraction, makes it easy to love
without conditions or expectations, and to forgive and forget what is said and done by others, if we so
choose. Love, a t