What is grander?

 Victor Hugo, seems to really "get" love.  Of his many quotes, I think this one hits the target:

"What a grand thing to be loved!

What a grander thing still, to love!"

Be grand!  Be grander still!  Love on!

Love = Reality

 I read that "love and love alone is the substance of reality."

Consider that for a moment:  The only real thing is love.  Everything else is subterfuge.  Everything else is meaningless, smoke, vapor, mist. 

The only thing that matters.

The only things that last.

The only thing that means anything.

Let that sink in.  Let that be your reality.

Love is the Reason, the Means, the End

 "Everything we do, we do for a reason, but only love is its own reason."

~St. Bernard of Clairvaux

Love is ground of Beauty

 "Love ... lays the ground of beauty.

There is nothing more beautiful than love, and 

everything beautiful is already love in a form hidden or revealed."

~Brother Paul Quenon

(p. 25, How Beauty Will Save the World" by Winfield Bevins

Love is the Lesson

 

"Love is the lesson, and God’s love is so great that God will finally teach it to all of us."

    Richard Rohr says this on a devotion.  Ponder how "Love is the Lesson" and how God is teaching it.  

    How is He teaching you?  Where are you failing to learn the lesson, t

     hat LOVE IS THE GREATEST OF ALL. 

(CAC Daily Meditations, March 6, 2026)

How embracing is your love?

 

Love [people] even in [their] sin, for that is the semblance of Divine Love and is the highest love on earth. Love all God’s creation, the whole and every grain of sand in it. Love every leaf, every ray of God’s light. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you have perceived it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.

 

—Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

 

What do I start with?

 "Love starts with an attitude, not a feeling."  

So said Dr. Gary Chapman, author of The Five Love Languages.

Sometimes it's not the language, but the heart, the spirit, the attitude.

Help us remember.  We bring more than language, we speak a universal language of what we bring in the room and into relating.