LOVE IS an experience in consciousness, an experience in the Soul of Man, it is something that is a great liberating power against the tyranny of personal Attitudes.

LOVE is placing something greater than yourself in the foreground of your life.
It is to dedicate your actions to projects, purposes and convictions that are for the common good of all mankind.
Love is a mature emotion, not the mysterious bubbling of adolescence.

It is a deep, lasting and enduring dedication.
Love is not simply staying with it until it hurts... and then abandoning it.

Love is not getting into various emotional situations, for gain, or for social standing.

There can be NO selfishness and self-centeredness in true affection.

Neither can LOVE be bought, traded or sold. It remains as it has always been, basically, the purest of ALL human emotions.
And if it becomes adulterated or polluted, it is one of the most terrible adversities with which we must contend during the course of our existence.
Between our Principles of Love in our souls, and in life, there is a strange personality equation.

Full of self-centredness, full of ambition, full of prejudice, tyranny and intemperance and intolerance.

This "personality" that we like to cater to (Hall stops)... forever... is not only a personality that brings us tragedy... but the composite of this personality has been responsible for more than 8000 wars throughout history... and that... is rather too much.

So we are going to have to realise and recognise, that all compromise that we make, to fulfil our own personal desires, all this compromise leads to nothing.

Compromise has never succeeded and never can.
All this great struggle of competitive materialism ends in the grave.

And we take with us, out of this life, only what we have brought with us, ourselves.

Manly P. Hall