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The
Art of Love
Wilferd A. Peterson
The spectrum of love
merges and focuses all of the arts of living.
Friendship,
awareness, happiness, all of the arts of the good life, are
brilliant beads strung on the golden cord of love.
Love is the
foundation and the apex of the pyramid of our existence.
Love is the
"affirmative of affirmatives"; it enlarges the vision,
expands the heart.
Love is the dynamic
motivation behind every worthy purpose; it is the upward thrust
that lifts people to the heights.
Love is the creative
fire, the inspiration that keeps the torch of progress aflame.
Love penetrates the
mysteries of life. "Anything," said George
Washington Carver, "will give up its secrets if you love it
enough."
Love is the dove of
peace, the spirit of brotherhood; it is tenderness and compassion,
forgiveness and tolerance.
Love is the supreme
good; it is the overflowing life, the giving of ourselves to noble
ends and causes.
Love is down to
earth and it reaches to the highest star; it is the valley of
humility and the mountaintop of ecstasy.
Love is the
spiritual magnetism that draws people together for the working of
miracles. "Ten people banded together in love,"
wrote Carlyle, "can do what ten thousand separately would
fail in."
Love is the perfect
antidote that floods the mind to wash away hatred, jealousy,
resentment, anxiety, and fear.
Love alone can
release the power of the atom so it will work for people and not
against them.
Love, in the words
of the master, is the shining commandment: Love one another.
The art of love is
God at work through you.
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