SUMMER 2007

Love Is

Dennis Deems
Woodbury MM

Love is acceptance.

Love as acceptance

needs nothing added, nothing resulting.

Neither noble nor manipulative behavior

can cause love to love.

Love has a life of its own

that is constant, insulated from any

outside persuasion.

 

Love is an emotion.

Love becomes emotional.

As an emotion, love focuses on a beloved,

focuses on the other at expense to self.

 

Love's reason to exist

is the beloved.

 

Love makes that choice freely.

With that choice love lives again,

though love just died with the choice.

 

Love is a mystery which forever intrigues,

yet never deceives.

 

Love is a life of its own,

far superior to the only other life,

which is competition, which is fear based.

 

Love, which never fails, is always accompanied by

peace — and joy … and more. …

Because love is the total provision

in any relationship, any circumstance,

there is no need to be filled

with any other than love.

 

Love is a decision, an attitude, a way of living daily.

The individual can defy all else that has been taught

and decide that self truly can love

because love lives inside self.

That will keep the individual in harmony

with love and out of tune with the world.

 

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