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 Practicing love is never an easy task.  Whether my words or actions toward another person constitute love is determined by their outcome—whether they actually bring about a positive change in that person or not.  Compassion, affection, or good intentions may serve as motivation for practicing love, but they do not themselves exert real, practical influence in the act of loving.  The essence of practicing love lies in knowing the precise way to bring about beneficial change in the other person.

 It is a very sad reality when wisdom cannot be passed on to those who earnestly seek it. But what would it be like if there were no one who desired wisdom at all?

 Goodness is what is natural.  When phenomena that ought to occur as a result of existing things do occur, or when phenomena that ought not to occur do not occur, it is natural — and that is what is good.  When what ought to occur does not occur, or what ought not to occur does occur, that is what is bad.

 The reason why love is so important is that only through love can we accumulate virtue. Only through virtue can we attain enlightenment, and only through enlightenment can we achieve a better self.

 Love is blessing.  To love someone means to bless them. To bless someone means that my words or actions change them into a better person.

 A man went to the Parthenon and asked, "Who is the wisest man in the world?" The temple answered, "Socrates, who lives in Athens, is the wisest man." He met Socrates and asked, "Are you really the Socrates who is said to be the wisest man in the world?" Socrates answered, "I know nothing. If there's one thing I know, it's that I know nothing." He returned to the Parthenon and demanded, "Socrates said he knew nothing. How can he be the wisest man in the world?" The temple replied, "People don't know that they know nothing. But doesn't Socrates know that one thing?"