LOVE

MOSTLY THE LINES ARE FROM GREAT AUTHORS AND A FEW OF MY ADDITION


Alas, I thought I knew so much
Of love, and yet I know so little!
Love is always patient and kind
it is never jealous; love is never boastful or conceited
; it is never rude or selfish;
it does not take offense, and is not resentful.
Love takes no pleasure in other people's sins but delights in the truth;
it is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes.
Love does not come to an end.

And if my homage she'd receive
My wooing and my service true--
The sleepless nights I have been through
The grief I bear from morn till eve,
Could never take me from her sight;
I'd be a slave unto delight,
All burdens I would gladly bear
And for my heart's grief I'd not care
An eye is meant to see things,
The soul is here for its own joy.
A head has one use: for loving a true love
Legs: to run after.
Love is for vanishing into the sky. The mind,
for learning what men have done and tried to do.
Mysteries are not to be solved. The eye goes blind
when it only wants to see why
A lover is always accused of something.But when he finds his love, whatever was lost
in the looking comes back completely changed
On the way to Mecca, many dangers: thieves,
the blowing sand, only camel's milk to drink.
Still each pilgrim kisses the black stone there
with pure longing, feeling in the surfacethe taste of the lips he wants.
This talk is like stamping new coins. They pile up,
while the real work is done outsideby someone digging in the ground.
Love is a weapon of matchless potency
It is the "summum bonum" of Life.
It is an attribute of the brave, in fact it is their all.
It does not come within the reach of the coward.
It is no wooden or lifeless dogma but a living and life-giving force.
It is the special attribute of the heart.
Love courses through everything
No, Love is everything.
How can you say, there is no love
when nothing but Love exists?
All that you see has appeared because of Love.
All shines from Love
All pulses with Love,
All flows from Love--
No, once again all is Love!