What is Love? I’m not talking about that stupid song by the Haddaway, I’m wondering if we really understand the essence of love? If we did, how would we live our lives differently? Would we treat people differently? Would we work differently for our employers?
A leader in a spiritual community had to deal with a bunch of people who thought they were really spiritual by the things they were doing but he corrected them. He said, if I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
So basically all the great things can we do will mean nothing if we don’t do them from a motive of love?
Were the Beatles right?
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