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Some Thoughts on Love

"Love is the willingness to extend one's self for the nurture of one's own or another's spiritual growth." (M. Scott peck, The Road Less Traveled)

Love is much less dependent on feelings and is more dependent on an active principle of relationship.

There is great joy in the application of this principle, not only for what it does for the self, but also what it does for others.

Love is acting rather than reacting.

Love is situational. There is no one principle which can be used or applied to all the circumstances and experiences of life.

Love then seeks the others good and strenuously attempts not to do harm.

Love is not allowing another person to determine the kind of person you are going to be.

The opposite of love is not hate, but apathy (not caring).

The opposite of like is hate; the progression is like--dislike--hate.

Within the Christian context we are commanded to love, but we are not commanded to like.

The love which we seek to create in life and in a marriage can only be done with the assistance of a higher power.

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