Thirteen

DESTINY:

WHEN ANGELS SPEAK OF LOVE

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning

of life by ourselves alone-we fin d it with another.

- THOMA SMERTON

Twelve

HEALING:

REDEMPTIVE LOVE

We have been brought into the inner wine cellar and

sealed with His seal, which is to suffer out of love.

The ardor of this love greatly outweighs any suffering

we may undergo, for suffering comes to an end, but

love is forever.

- TESSA BIEL ECKI

Eleven

LOSS:

LOVING INTO LIFE AND DEATH

You have to trust that every frie ndship has no end,

that a communion of saints exists among all those,

living and dead, who have truly loved God and one

another. You know from experience how real this is.

Those you have loved deeply and who have died live

on in you, not just as memories but as real presences.

- HENRI NOUWEN

Ten

ROMANCE:

SWEET LOVE

Sweet Love say

Where, how and when

What do YO Ll want of me? ..

Y OLlrs [ am, for Y OLl I was born:

What do YOLl wa nt of me ? . .

-SAINT TERESA OF AVILA

Nine

MUTUALITY:

THE HEART OF LOVE

True giving is a thoroughly joyous thing to do. We

experience happiness when we form the intention to

give, in the actual act of giving, and in the recollection

of the fact that we have given. Generosity is a cele-

bration. When we give something to someone we feel

connected to them, and our commitment to the path

of peace and awareness deepens.

- S HA RON SALZ BE RG

Eight

COMMUNITY:

LOVING COMMUNION

Community cannot take root in a divided life. Long

before community assumes external shape and form,

it must be present as a seed in the undivided self:

only as we are in communion with ourselves can we

find community with others.

- PARK ER PA LMER

Seven

GREED:

SIMPLY LOVE

The fading away of greed and hatred is the founda-

tion fo r liberation. Liberation is "the sure heart's

re lease" -an understanding of the truth so powerful

that there is no turning back from it.

-SHARON SA LZBE RG

Six

VALUES:

LIVING BY A LOVE ETHIC

We must live for the day, and work for the day, when

human society realigns itself with the radical love of

God. In a truly democratic paradigm, there is no Jove

of power for power's sake.

- MARIANNE WILLIAMSON