There are only a few examples of the manifestation of great love in history. So rare are the people capable of its expression that the whole world wonders and in awe has said that the Creator is Love.
And lovers have been set apart as belonging to the Great Mystery and revered in degree as is the Source of Love.
One of the phases of this manifestation in people is the desire to give. The lover withholds nothing from his beloved. There is one desire—to give all. Thus is the mind expanded until it reaches truth never before seen.
Love is the enlightener of the soul. It is the all-seeing eye that discovers the highest possibilities in man. Its eternal desire is to fulfil these.
“I can do no ill, because I could not meet the beloved on terms of equality if there were any stain upon my soul. My hands and my heart must be clean.”
Love’s longing is to be entirely whole, clean and strong.
Love would never deceive. It is kindred only to truth and good.
All of life is sacred to the lover, and all life is sacred to him.
The lover is not so anxious that the beloved shall be perfect, as that she herself, he himself, shall be without blemish. Love purifies the lover. Love makes the lover clean.
There is no such thing as unrequited love, for to have loved is all the compensation there is. The soul asks no more.