Life is a vast lake...

I experienced a deep sense of peace yesterday. Imagine a clear and undisturbed lake from which the morning steam rises. If you ever wake up at 4:00 in the morning to be at 5:00 on the shore of the lake, you know what I mean. Peace of the morning on the shore of a lake surrounded by beautiful landscapes and the absence of any thought. Can you even imagine what it's like for a few seconds to have no thoughts?

And at that moment when the calm steam of the morning rose up slowly, comforting my soul, a pebble that had closed her the flavor of a thought fell into the water, penetrating my silence. And I immediately realized that the stone was not just the flavor of a thought, but it was a question in itself: "Do not we mistaken love for peace?"

All the opinions and writings I have ever heard or read about love have been in my mind. And the last sequence before the end-frame and the final stop was the one in which Jesus tells us: "Beloved!" After this episode, I knew I had to write the article today.

"The smallest thought that is not founded on love destroys peace."
By Father Tadea 1914 - 2003

"Prayer is the purest expression of love for God and for neighbor. When you get to truly pray, you have truly made peace, happiness."
By Valeriu Gafencu 1921 - 1952

"So that we may save and inherit with God the eternal life, we must know and live with God from this temporal life. We must, therefore, be traversed and lived by God in order to appear in us And on the other hand, as there is no enmity in God, so it is not even among those who have Him as the foundation of life. The state of peace with all flesh is such a miracle that Astonishes the world and forces her to recognize in this deed of God. "
By Father Arsenie Boca 1910 - 1989

"God so much cares that we may live in peace with one another, that he will endure the endless sacrifice that we bring, let us interrupt the ministry to God only by his desire to put an end to the hatred and hatred we face By others. "
By Saint John the Chalice 347 - 407

"The peace-maker is the one who gives the peace to another, but one could not share it with one another if he did not have it."
By St. Gregory of Nyssa 335-384

"Peace springs from the victory of good over evil, either at the level of consciousness or at the level of history, and here is the sense of the unseen war of ascetics, and the apocalyptic meaning of history."
By Valeriu Gafencu 1921 - 1952

Love! It is the wing given by God to the soul to climb to it. - Michelangelo Buonarotti

Love is the architect of the universe. - Hesiod

Love makes people feel equal. - F. M. Dostoievski

As a man to love another is probably the worst task that has been entrusted to us, the supreme task, the final exam, the work for which all the rest are just a prelude .... Love is an incentive for everybody to complete themselves, become someone, become a world for themselves for one's sake. - Rainer Maria Rilke

Love does not mean pleasure. - Confucius

All the weaknesses are reduced to one: to love, to escape from one's sadness.

Love is the highest happiness a man can reach, because only he knows that he is more than himself, that it is one. - Rabindranath Tagore

To love does not mean looking at each other, but looking both in the same direction. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love means being two and being just one. A man and a woman melting in an angel. - Victor Hugo

Want to be loved, love! - Seneca

Love is the only duty I know. - Albert Camus

By chance, anyone can love. - F. M. Dostoievski

I was born to love. - Sofocle

He loves little what he can say by words as he loves. - Dante Aligheri

Find love with heart, not with your head. - Mark Twain

Love is all we have, it is the only way we can help each other. - Euripides

Life without love is a shadow of things that might be. - I do not know