What is that first, faint intuition of something Greater than ourselves, other than the Herald of the Heart quietly announcing the existence of a whole new level of being above us — and asking us — at the same time, if we will prepare ourselves to receive it.

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Just as tumbling leaves in the wind makes the wind visible, so does the need of someone — that stirs the heart of another to answer it — reveal the presence of a Love greater than either person, yet that lives “as one” within both.

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Real Love does not embrace what is unkind, cruel, and without conscience in human beings; yet it allows for it . . . knowing that all things dark and destructive must one day pay — by an act of Love — for their thoughtless expression.