True Love Requires Understanding, Not Knowing

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We each live in our own unique world.

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We expect the truths of another’s world to be the same as ours,

but they are not.

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For a time, your truth, your world

will coincide with another’s.

We call that friendship, comradery,

or even love.

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True love with another endures even during those times when your worlds diverge. Such times can be painful.

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When your beloved’s world diverges from yours, just hold them more deeply in your heart in that place that

transcends the worldly.

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Understand that our worlds change, just as the planets move beneath the stars

and the currents in the ocean wax and wane.

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There are as many worlds on the earth as there are people who populate it.

Though independent, those worlds interface.

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Like the strings of a violin, our worlds sometimes harmonize and sometimes do not.

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To bring harmony to the surface of life, first find it in the depth of your being.

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Harmony between people, between worlds, means understanding.

But understanding does not mean knowing.

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Understanding means holding another within your heart as they traverse through the worlds we call life.

Understanding means love.

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