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LOVING
Being receptive to all possibilities.
Consciousness reaching
beyond itself.
Always focusing on the
positive in another.
Wanting for another
before wanting for self.
Realizing everything
has ‘merit’ without being told.
Considering what is
not you as if it were part of you.
Living optimistically
secure in your motivation which is ‘grounded’ in caring.
Gracious accepting all
you perceive relying on ‘virtue’ to overcome adversity
especially injustice.
Needing and embracing
‘other’ for the sake of the ‘other’ and in doing so to grow
spiritually.
Waking each day
confident that you will improve your life and those around you
thanks to your ‘generous’ heart’s valor in the face of vanity,
guile and duplicity.
- Perhaps only your
kindness can temper discord.
- Perhaps the intent to
give makes the act of giving superfluous.
- Perhaps you must lose
yourself in another before you find yourself.
- Perhaps the only light
shining on you is the reflection from your own torch.
- Perhaps you can
encompass all that ever was, is and will be with your love.
- Perhaps loving is the
only way to understand the irony “to give is to receive.”
- Perhaps the ultimate
purpose of free will is allowing you to decide to be loving.
- Perhaps by loving you
take on the beauty of the Divine; perhaps then you are
attractive to your Creator.
- Perhaps a tree is not a
tree without you knowing it is; perhaps a tree becomes more
than a tree when you love it.
- Perhaps your existence
can extend beyond the dissolution of your body; perhaps this
depends upon your growth through loving; perhaps the only
reason you exist is to learn to love.
ESSAY ON LOVING by EDWIN
O’SHEA
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