There Is No Act Of Love That

Although I Was Raised In A Profoundly Secular Home, I Had A Belief, An Awareness Of God, From As Far Back As I Can Remember.

When We Love Someone Our Love Becomes Demonstrable Or Real Only Through Our Exertion - Through The Fact That For That Someone (or For Ourself) We Take An Extra Step Or Walk An Extra Mile. Love Is Not Effortless. To The Contrary, Love Is Effortful.

What Does A Life Of Total Dedication To Truth Mean? It Means, First Of All, A Life Of Continuous And Never-ending Stringent Self-examination. We Know The World Only Through Our Relationship To It. Therefore, To Know The World, We Must Not Only Examine It But We Must Simultaneously Examine The Examiner.

Love Is The Free Exercise Of Choice. Two People Love Each Other Only When They Are Quite Capable Of Living Without Each Other But Choose To Live With Each Other.

Our View Of Reality Is Like A Map With Which To Negotiate The Terrain Of Life. If The Map Is True And Accurate, We Will Generally Know How To Get There. If The Map Is False And Inaccurate, We Generally Will Be Lost.