LOVE
To cease from egotistic ambition and learn love with a humble mind is the lesson of this verse by John G. Neehardt:
For my faith was the faith of dusk and riot,
The faith of fevered blood and selfish lust;
Until I learned that love is cool and quiet
And not akin to dust.
For once as in Apocalyptic vision,
Above my smoking altars did I see
My god’s face, veilless, ugly with derision—
The shameless, magnified; projected—Me!