: “If I could speak five hundred different languages – from English to Urdu and everything in between – or even if I could speak the languages of the stars… if I did not use those languages to speak of love, my voice would sound like a cat-fight outside my bedroom window at 3am.
If I could see the future, or if I knew everything that there was to know… or even if I had the spiritual were-with-all to change the world… but did not base these things upon love – pffff – well, I wouldn’t really be anything at all.
Heavens above! If I gave up everything – all that I ‘own’… all that I ‘am’ – but didn’t love… it would do no one, especially me, any good.
Love… is… patient.
Love is… kind.
Love doesn’t envy another, or go around saying, ‘Now this is LOVE!’…
or thumb its nose at other people’s attempts to live love.
Love balances out Self and Other.
Love responds to wrong without becoming self-righteous.
Love doesn’t keep a tally, but speaks to the Now.
Love does not live with evil.
Love does live with truth.
Love prot”
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