Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.
But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires:
To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.
To know the pain of too much tenderness.
To be wounded by your own understanding of love;
And to bleed willingly and joyfully.
To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving;
To rest at the noon hour and meditate love’s ecstasy; to return home at eventide with gratitude;
And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips. – The Prophet
Author: Jocelyn Soriano
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How Do You Recognize True Love?
You’d know that a love is true
when that love is able to overcome fear.
Perfect love casts away all fears.
And indeed, there is no fear in love.
True love does not run away.
True love does not lose faith.
True love does not retreat
with the slightest discomfort.
True love endures.
True love heals.
True love overcomes all darkness
and all hopelessness.
You will never doubt true love when you see it.
You will just know.
You will BELIEVE.
Inspirational Quote – On Books
Never memorize what you can look up in books. – Albert Einstein
The INSPIRER was the source of light of all the Kingdom, without whom there can be no warmth nor joy nor hope. Such is the beauty of the Inspirer that whoever casts his eyes upon her gets easily filled with inexplicable happiness, his soul is easily healed.
It matters not then how hard the fight has been, how painful the blows received from the battle. They are easily forgotten with a single glance.
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The DEFENDER shall offer his life for her, for without her there can be no life.
All that he does is because of her, and he can do all things for his beloved one.
No one knows COURAGE other than the Defender. For as much as his love for the Inspirer is, such also is the greatness of his courage and of his strength.
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The Inspirer knows her Defender and she trusts him with her life.
She can be at peace because she knows she will be protected, that she will be cherrished, that she is being watched upon even as she sleeps.
The Inspirer doesn’t have to worry about anything. It will be provided her even before she asks.
The Inspirer doesn’t have to be afraid, she knows she is not alone. Even in the darkest valleys of death, she is not alone.
Such is the Inspirer’s gratitude for her Defender that she will never let her Light die out. No, not even waves upon waves of sorrow can quench her flaming Love.
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The above is an excerpt from Jocelyn Soriano’s writings about the Inspirer’s Wisdom.
Bear Children Begotten of Love
Someone just asked me if I’m still single. He commented that it would be better if I could bear a child and spread my genes, make more smart and beautiful people!
Well, it’s good to know that he thinks it would be good if many more people inherit my good traits through my genes. Talk about evolution of the species, huh. I’d have no objections to that.
But I came to realize deep within me that there are other ways by which I could leave behind a good legacy other than by passing on my genetic code.
Bearing a child is not the only way to contribute something to life (especially if you can’t raise that child up to become the best kind of person she’s meant to be).
You can bear other children begotten not only by your flesh, but by your spirit, by your heart.