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LOVE Lesson 1::
THE POWER OF LOVE
Love is the greatest of all powers and though of itself, it has no power, it is powerful. Love comes forth from the source of all life.....Like a river, love comes forth from its source as a small trickle that then becomes a stream that is then added to other streams until, as it falls from the heights, it becomes a great river of love that spreads across the world eventually mixing and merging with all of the waters... more....
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LOVE Lesson 2::
JESUS AND THE LAW OF LOVE
Love runs the Universe. Love is the River of Life. Love and Life are inseparable. Imagine the world without it! We cannot exist without it! Love is a divine attribute, originating simultaneously with the act of creation; therefore, Truth says, Divine Love always is, always has been, and always will be.... more...
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LOVE Lesson 3::
JESUS AND THE TEACHING TO LOVE
Mark 12 tells us that a scribe saw Jesus talking with some Pharisees and Herodians, and heard them reasoning together. Perceiving that "he had answered them well," the scribe, who was knowledgeable in the whole of the texts of the Jews asked him, "Which is the first commandment of all?" And Jesus answered him... more...
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LOVE Lesson 4::
LOVE AND THE UNIVERSE
"Love is part of the Law — the Law that runs the Universe." If there were no Love the Universe would cease to exist. "Love is a divine attribute having its origin in the act of creation. Love was created when the universe was created...." more...
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LOVE Lesson 5::
GREATER LOVE
"St. John 15:17 ‘Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.' St. John's verse implies a sacrifice of one's life, but what is the sacrifice? The definition of Love as described by the Dalai Lama, serves well to expand our understanding of the greater love spoken of by John and given to us by Jesus!
From His Holiness the Dalai Lama... more...
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LOVE Lesson 6::
LOVE AND CHARITY
KJV 1 Corinthians 13:1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing... more...
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LOVE Lesson 7::
MAHATMA GANDHI ON LOVE
"Like the bee gathering honey from the different flowers, the wise person accepts the essence of the different scriptures and sees only the good in all religions. Fear and love are contradictory terms. Love is reckless in giving away, oblivious as to what it gets in return. Love wrestles with the world as with the self and ultimately gains mastery over all other feelings...."... more...
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LOVE Lesson 8
THE GOLDEN RULE FROM AROUND THE WORLD
The is really only One Truth and the Religions of the World are but facets of its expression... From: Religious Tolerance.org... Some "Ethic of Reciprocity" passages from the religious texts of various religions and secular belief:.. more...
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Madonna and Child
by Marianne Preindelsberger Stokes
edited by Jessika
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"Painted in Regusa on the Dalmatian coast in Italy the model for the Virgin Mary was a local village girl. The costume is representative of a traditional Dalmatian costume from the time... In the background Stokes surrounds the Holy mother and child with thorny stems seeming to refer to the future crucifixion of Christ. Stokes' interest in biblical themes is typical of the artists of the Pre-Raphaelite movement... their aim was to return to the purer styles of the early Renaissance artists like Fra Angelico and their subject matter was often spiritual." |
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For more about the artist see:
Wolver Hamptonart.org
Can't remember from where
I obtained the original image
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