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QUIZ
Thoughts Test on
Love
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GUESS WHO WROTE THE THOUGHTS BELOW?
Try!
It's not difficult... They are from very well known authors:
Mother Teresa, Abelard ,
Johann Goethe, Heloise,
Plato,
Shakespeare,
Ecclesiastes/Bible,
Marcel Proust,
Dalai
Lama
Even if I speak all the languages of men and of angels, if I
don't have love, life became sounding brass, and a clanging
cymbal.bal...
I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper's wounds,
I feel I am nursing the Lord himself.
Life is sown with miracles that only people who love can wait
for.
In Tibet we say that many illnesses can be cured by the one
medicine of love and compassion.
Under the
pretext of study we spent our hours in the happiness of love,
and learning held out to us the secret opportunities that our
passion craved. Our speech was more of love than of the books
which lay open before us; our kisses far outnumbered our
reasoned words. (...) No degree in love's progress was left
untried by our passion, and if love itself could imagine any
wonder as yet unknown, we discovered it. And our inexperience of
such delights made us all the more ardent in our pursuit of
them, so that our thirst for one another was still unquenched.
A:
Just as a pilgrim might kiss the statue of a saint in hopes of
receiving forgiveness for sins, so your acceptance of my kiss
undoes any sin I committed by holding your hand.
B:
So you claim to have gotten rid of your sin by kissing my lips.
Now I've got the sin. What are you going to do about
that?
A:
"You want me to kiss you again? Great!"
Only the soul that loves is happy.
Love is always poor, and anything but tender and fair, as the
many imagine him; and he is rough and squalid, and has no shoes,
nor a house to dwell in; on the bare earth exposed he lies under
the open heaven, in-the streets, or at the doors of houses,
taking his rest; and like his mother he is always in distress.
Like his father too, whom he also partly resembles, love is
always plotting against the fair and good; love is bold,
enterprising, strong, a mighty hunter, always weaving some
intrigue or other, keen in the pursuit of wisdom, fertile in
resources; a philosopher at all times, terrible as an enchanter,
sorcerer, sophist. Love is by nature neither mortal nor
immortal, but alive and flourishing at one moment when he is in
plenty, and dead at another moment, and again alive by reason of
his father's nature.
God knows I never sought anything in you except yourself; I
wanted simply you, nothing of yours.
But if I lose you what is left for me to hope for? What reason
for continuing on life's pilgrimage, for which I have no support
but you, and none in you save the knowledge that you are alive,
now that I am forbidden all other pleasures in you and denied
even the joy of your presence which from time to time could
restore me to myself?
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