Whenever I start to get lost in the confusion of modern life, I go back to the basics -- to the foundational principles that I know, without question, are good and right and true. It is through those principles that I find myself again.
Love is one of those principles -- the one that looms larger than all the rest. It is the bedrock upon which every other good thing in life is built.
Sometimes love gets a bad rap. Sometimes it is misunderstood. Sometimes it seems so complicated that no one can possibly figure it out.
But love is incredibly, beautifully simple. Our observations, experiences and limited understanding are the source of the confusion, not love itself. If you've ever been hurt, betrayed, rejected, mocked, abused, mistreated or used, what you experienced wasn't love. It was blasphemy.
Love is pure. Love is kind. Love is amazing.
Love in all its forms, from friendship and romance to service and kindness and charity, makes the world a better place. It makes life worth living. Even grief, the price we pay for love, deepens our understanding in ways that nothing else can.
Love is perfect. People are not. But we are never closer to perfection than when we are filled with love.
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