Challenge: Be the more loving one

 W.H. Auden's poem

"If equal affection cannot be

     Let the more loving one be me."

Let this challenge us, to be the more loving one.

Let's have a competition to see who can be!

In Love - Paradox Rules - Mystery

 "In quantum physics

as in love,

in searching out

matter and meaning

paradox rules.

Protons, being particle and wave,

persons, being singe and connected,

arrive at their destination

before they embark on the journey.

The arrow of longing

hits the target

before we take aim.

The answer sleeps

in the question.

The lost treasure

is our found/ation.

Start with the conclusion,

the end encoded in the beginning.

The problem of the meaning of life

is solved in the mystery of love.

[poem in front of  "To Love and Be Loved" by Sam Keen

Perfectly Imperfect

 "We come to love - not by finding a perfect person, 

    but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly."

 ~Sam Keen, To Love and Be Loved

Prescription: Never Grow Old

 "Those who love deeply never grow old;

they may die of old age, but they die young."

~Benjamin Franklin

Dying of old age - yet dying with youthfulness, O Lord... let me love deeply that renews me daily.

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