Love

About like a cat casts aside a piece of tape....

I don't know when you became a writer of aphorisms, but you should stop right now... It is like the story in Boswell's Life, of Richard the Lion Hearted coming upon the grave marker of a man with the epetath that: he knew no fear... Richard said: He must never have snuffed out a candle with his fingers... To do what we know will hurt causes fear, and there is no way to avoid fear of pain... Yet love causes us to deny fear, or to act in spite of our fear out of hope...No one can hurt us who we do not love, though almost any one can injure us or kill us dead... With love we know it is ourselves who have opened the gate, and let down our guard... The Bible talks in one passage about the penalty for prophesy, having a spike driven through ones hands... And one so punished if he is asked should reply: I am an earthling man, and this is an injury recieved in the home of my friends... Abe Lincoln in recieving an injury from his own party said: No pain is worse than... And yet, to have much we must often risk all, and love is much to have and worth any risk...