We Must Love Ourselves And Love The
Earth To Care About Ourselves And
Care About: The Earth

BY
Zolo Agona Azania
Zolo & a supporter
PREPACE

This 15 @ collection of thres articles and book reviev. The topics
hips, and enviorn-

range from love, human emotions, sostal relatier

mental concerns.

5 4 conacious geaturs of his hustlity the author we the lover

case "1" whenever he urits or spesk in the first person. In the USA

ted WAth superiority. It masns that

they're number ome over and above sverybody else. The imdividusl
s1dared more important than the colleetive "We".

the upper cass I" 1s

opper case *I" 1a
Ho, this fs not trus, because an Individusl part of something is not
The organtzation and unity of Owr communities

Ereater than the whol
are much greater than any individuel porson. "We® are more fmportant

than *I". We are one.
For the love of 1ife and the beauty of 1t all Ve transcend

adverstty. There to be 50 much miadirection and foolish

activity. Communication lines appesr crocked and brittle. The i
trestaent of people, earth and wildlife aiarupts the harsontous
©7616 of natvre. It 1s Our collective responsibility to & Our

smooth the

PAFt to uplirt humantty; stratghten the crooked lin
Jaggsd o and control Our own 1ives. Compassionate Sentiments

are easential for giving a helping hand to mothers and fathers,

brothers and staters left by the vaystde.

s to think eritically. Bo sblestive

The author urge his re
4n your approach to problem 501v1ng. There le a wich higher meaning.

ey
of Justice and e should strive in sarnest for total liberation,
gonutne independsnce and sconontc self-relimnce.

Matter 1s prinary and consciousnass s secondary. atter 1s
anything that has veight and cscupy Bverything Vo 1
reetved and concelved through Our ssnse organs. ALl of nature is
interrelated. ¥hile something s coning into being scmething is
aying away. Some people clatm that none of this matters. But they're
mistaken, because Our enviormment influences Our way of thinking

and fesling. It 1s Our conscious duty to help eare for the enviorn-
ment. Vo must love Ourselves and love the sarth to care ahout Our-

and care about the earih.

et

For without love a1l 1s lost.

e Author
11 2une 1993

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™ PRATING-MANTIS

Ve £ind folks everywhere who think of insests ana worms as
14tt1e mensoing antmals that bite, scratch, sting, buss around our
#1472, revl or rub s the wrons vay, and thus should a1l be destroy-
#6. Meybe 20, sometines. But nature, overall, has its ovavay of
Lving vexing problems with fnsscts and vorms, naturally, without
health problens to peoples or to other antmals.

Por sxample, most birds enjoy insscts and worms as tander
morssle. Hortieulturalist, botantsts, gardeners and paturslist alike
¥ould do well to favite the help of more birds with strategically

Posttioned cory birahousss velcoming thetr r:

solution,

t0 some folks, cortatn tnsscts provide
The mantis apectes 1a

Ironte as 1t may o

the answers ve nesd to deal with the pos
ot They destroy hamrul tnsects, sspectally the ones

one sueh tne

injurious o Plantlife. Your flovers and vegetables would love then.

The "amntis® (nantidel) is mesber of nsect growp "orthopters®,
found in most countriss with hot, warm or pleasantly mild linates.
he mantis s usually & variant shade of green or brovaish insect
o Wntle at rest, or potsed for atteck, the
mantis folds 1ts two forslegs as 1f in prayer. Tus ~praying-mantis
It can use 1ts tvo forslegs aleost 1ike arms and hands to hold

sats others tnsscts.

things. Irontely, the female often eats its smaller mate jter sexval

Intercourse. Somstines befors 1f he's not carerul.

he praying-astis fs very pationt. It will relax and vait in
the prayer position, sasourlaged ancng the vegstation for hours,
and when an uasuspesting mesl ccme by, such a3 grasshoppers, veerils,

beetle s cockrosches, tarmites, flies,eaterpillars, moths, vors,

and 0 forth; 1n ons suLft motion reach out and grabs it.

In fact, the praying-nantis Tesesbles a large gresshopper sbout
thres inches or bigger in length vith six legs, sn slengsted body,
3ong slinder neck connected to 1ts head shaped samevhat like an
upaidedoun triangle with an eye at the top of each corner and oue
Patr of antenna betveen them. In another specisl adaptation, the
Praying-mantis also has vings and can take to the air in flight.

‘e praying-mantis 1s steady, agile, graceful, quist and sure
of Ltaslf. The praying-mantis is an efficient insect preditor vith
relatively poverful miscled shovlders end a stable balanced body.

It's datly astivities are

1t doesntt make unnecessary move
offective and benefical to soclety. They're the farmars balper,

because 1t

e the insscts that doos damage to the farmers crops.
In other words, they are natural protectors (1ike regents) of the
Plants in one's garden. They'll wait for hours or deye for the
Fight moment to pouses on 1ts prey, in asbush.

Smart people can learn & 1ot from them. Although, they'll bite
Jou somstinss, 1t iz prastically harsless to humans. But, when held
in phystcal captivity fts every thought and action seoms to be
alrested tovards wiming ita 1iberation. Por they prize thetr
tna

ndence greatly. They're smarter than the adverage inssots.

praying-mantis
e horticultural industry and gardentng lovers at every level,
both large and small, vould do well to take hesd of the delightul
benefits of this venderful creature.

More impostently, Ve eat to live, and not the other vay around.
e praying-mantis has such & great, positive, organts valus to
ataple crops nacessary for the nutritionsl health of humen belngs.

helr earnest efforts are gentle reainders to Us all that “pesticides’,

the deadly toxie cheaieal compounds, poisoning the s0il, vater, air,
e

organtama, are gravely repulsi

buman-1ife; polsoning the whols food chain, and other

Uhare 1s the visdon in potsoning

insects that benefits the world?

e praying-mantis ask for nothing in Fetura for its unselfish

services, but to 1ot them live in balance with nature.

n
on smaowy o -y

Jeulonsy 12 & pereon vhe fecls thet. they are not. s good as 700,
bt wiah Shey comld bo.

To érivs the potmt further, ey 1s the sptteny or esseme of
strvined Jexlouy. T4 fs & selfish vey to think and set. Intentional
4 Giberete scts of fajurtice are directly relsted to greod, jeslousy
S e The 80k of dupriving & peroon of thets Jurt dua 1a fnguntion;
428 10 wrongly take credtt for the gond verks that anothen has produced

18 tajurtice. They dastre sttention and recognition thet somme alse
5. They spreed rmcrs, gosstp, backbite, backriabe, comive, provols
Heetilty, schone, and Flok 40 NIL dom i eld dovm those they emvy.

Prsical emctional expressions of Jeuleusy ead vy are signe of
tsmatarity, insccurity, ani infertorty, Bibles or tnfants slase {mocently
1040 this crtogery, beckoes an Lnfarte feeling of Joclowsy 1o a perfect
reeeion of tnsecire salrish 1ove. They carot e blamed for the vey

hey oal, bocause they're alveys afraid and milrerable o oxycom
danger, @ they meed the constant. tander Lovirg care of that parente

o rovide Frotection st 411 tiaes, A8 & chILM grove older they should

e rsirnd 0 1ok £ f theix chLLh vy Teurn o b undorstanting,
mture, constderate, contldent acuate,

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Those wbo amy others are peychalogioally tasours. They fosl
\hresten by another parscns sbility to compete Vith Uhem they comgere
Aaumsclves ith othere aid resest the comperisca; they vast to taln
acotiar parscos plase andj they become ccnfused and consequertly lose
conttdance 1n themselves, Tn othar verds, the foaling of Jeclousy snd
aony are mized smoticos carried on in slfish thonghts revecled by
Systead sctton.

a resmlt of these Joxlous ey aized moticns payehalogical
confltets aften develop 08Calating foto hested burmotl, thst ceuse
them Lo waste iae s0d enaryy to fight off, hald back, and cecoedd. thets
e fonltngs. Thay tr7 to hida the Jerlous and emrious vy hey thlak
and oad, bub ave dafosted by the Lnser conflict going ® in their oa
i, Some suboosectonsly and othars iatastiseally shav thair Jeclous
224 cavlous foslings opacly w0 thay ean be sess.

Tha charactartatics of & jeslous and saricus parsen oan be
recogaised by the quick Jurking of the ayes) Felling the qyes st scmscns,
tnting the ayes anty raised aye brovs that Klightly P devm o5 W
at the corsare. They et rvtentious. That 18 1o say, they prebend not.
4o see or hoar things that are thare, 4nd fretent to ses ar bear thizgs
hat are ot there (s oon vbo Dlluctaate). Thay remmber a vivid
datatd a1 good things sbout Uhenselves, but Fretend ot o remmber
oot thtngs shout scmscon aloe (88 ooe Vo suffer from mmesia) and
anly reoall or resasber the bed. Thay ceuse umacessary ruckus ar
atatisbanses to drev sttaction o themselves. The ears seem o have

individual enotions of thais own by the \ay they wiggle or move. Samatines

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oore-pimples cause & temporary or momemtary
TERihness of the skin that 1teh vith stingtng tingles. Their jaw
mrelen tightons maklig visible laprints under the eaiobes,
Selirs thickens in thelr mouth. % swallow 1s moticaste erfort.
O Ba7 g9t L1ght-faced and c0ld ooking. Every mamor of thetr
losenor or Dody langutge spesk vith signe of sarcastie smotional
Tosenaant. Salling even becems an extra effort to do. The chesks
89 t1red a2d baavy making 1t almost unbearable to maintain &
s, 90 the chesks sag and Flutter up and dovn. The 2tpe droup
% the corners. The skin on the forehead contracts or meve back
¢ #RA1L velns protrude undernesth the side of the temples. ALL

ntortiontatic
Faetal expressions (as when one smel1 a bad foud odor),

I other situtions hoever, to feel feslows or envicus about
20%0n 0F Lovards scmeune 1s JutLriad or ressoneble 1n vering
d0Erees sometines wnd should be expected espectally intimate
relstionshipe betveen men and vomen, and among younk ohtidren, This
1 70t the Tinal vord on Jealowsy or envy. These are only & for
videly known exemples. There are many more. You know what you are
Ehinking, and you knov hew you fesl. You can come wp with ather
exemles.

11 thia 15 o say s1mply that some people refuse to help yow
tecomlish goals becaase they don't want to help you be secesnsrul.
The think that Without their Belp you WLll be a fatlure. others
VOULEN'E Belp you even £ You offered to pay thew, because they

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donrt vant to ses
gain. Thay're doing 1t for the money, not for you. Soms will help
you oaly 1F 1t will cause them to be the senter of attestion.

Jou sucosed. Some WALl halp you for material

‘mose 1n posttions of pover over your 1ife, 30 matter hev small,
are notorious for this. They aay not have pover over Jou uatil the
momant you meed their belp, then that gives tham pover to 84y Je
or 9o, A person will hurriedly loan you oney f they think you
airenty have scms. They'l withhold something from Jou, that they
think you need, to kasp you from secomplishing your goul.

Vhan youtre riding good and is able to do for Jourself, and
things seem to be going well, but somsuhers dovn the road you
moot with miafortune and find yoursslf in need of help most folks,
Who are fatlisr with you, look the othervay,bessuse they were
Jealous of Jou at the tine when You Were doing alright. The more
you ask for help the more they pretend to forget you're i noead.
ny? Becau

they want to soe you suffer. They're glad you nasd
them, but make up 411 types of Flaky sxcusss why they cansot help.
They aat as 1€ they're the onss Who caused your misfortuns. It's
2ike sinking 1n quicksand or drovning and sble-bodied pecple nearty

rofuse to lend & helping hand. They vant o see You g0 dovn, and

never come back up again.

The botton 11ns 1s that one's Jealous, envy, mixed emotions
cannot be Beld inside onesslf for & long period of tiaa and
maintatn @ harsonious social relationship with other people without

then besoming evare of it, because jealous and savious smotions are

« negative force that dastroys from within, adversely affecting
whomaver one may soss in contast.
BooK REvIEw

80 BEAUTIFUL bE SukoNEs: romes

BY Marva Cooper; Published by United Brothers & Untwd Ststers
Commnioations Systems; 1040 Settlers Landing Ros
Bexpton, Virginta 23669, (1991) 4O pages.

L Sutte b;

teh.

A "svAtoh® 1s & amall collection of sample pieces or &

30 Boautiul Do Sustehes s & booklet of posms. 4

written in rhythate style concerning the eversdsy 1ife mertence
OF human beings in their relations to one another and nasire. It

101 comentary

837 and Ploasant to read with large type print.

S1ater Harva urites vith the "amisties of a voman, the t1tle

£oF one of har poems, who care sbout othars, 1a not to be eughed

off or 1gnores

You have to respact her. Either you do o sufrer
the consequanc

It's not personal. Wo oo 1s singled ot. The
EFUh 18 the truth. If anyons 13 hurt by 1t they must be guilty.
She xays n one poem:

"¥han you o0k at me what do you seer
Do you sas my round ra
Just the color of my skin

large chin or

Look on the surface and you will

sonmna somebody but not ma.
1 14ve tnaide hiaden auay from prying eyes

You must Jook with your heart.

©lose your e7es open your ntnd, teks some

tima,

arch and you may find.®

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autiful staters

he profound scope and dimensions of this

offorts, 1 vords and desds, to touch haarts and sooth souls are

untversal. She also shares her 11fe sxperience uaselfishly, for

411 who wish to learn vhat it 1s to be & woasn and Black. The
s

If the shos fit, vesr 1t, 1s s valld todsy

ags (saying)
was yosterday. Por exemple she writes.

"Unfesling creatures 1ifeless and cold
reaching to stesl my soul

puleating tent:
1 of praiss come clacking through

Jour wos
skelotontsed testh
but as the volf wrapped in lasb you're

fu1 of decett

aditent Lo

Fireless oyes plorce me with the

411 the while you'd drink my blood

ou 140

hoping 114 ¢!

Stater Marva brings her resders from the depts of despalr to
roaching pesks of hope and triwph. You must be & compassion=
-

the far

ate fosling person to understand. She

“If 1 o1 you of my anguish to solielt desper
unders tandtng of my patn would you listent
were gathered

would you b
1 4 ahed my blood sueat and tears in your

heart would you contatn thea!*

a
Voven 1tke silk thread in the fabric of a inely dtagned
germent; So Beautiful Do Swatehes inspire (motivate) untty of

POsStive thought and sction for the good of all. Tis sollestion

OF poems 1s & largs treasure in & small packege.
b say the 1

A proctems Jovel

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LOVE, SEX AYD INPATUATION

1n anetent Gresk Mythology Eros, the cherubis, is the god of

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called Cupld by the Romans, deploted s & naked lttle baby

boy with vings sarrying bove and arrous. Eros, whose neme is Latin

means "excessive dasire or Greed,” got his kicks by shooting pecple

through the hasrt with magiesl passion arrous that mads them tumble

magtonl passton
intevous prenki Bessuse passion struck, foolish love

fooltahly in love. Eros played geses on pecple. K

arrous 1 & nf
1s nfatuation, the cbasssive erotls s desires f
people partake tn wild sexual

activity 1n the strests, any whers, Vith no sense of shame.

@ mythteal fantasy.
Vhile under the lusty spell of Eros

Pirst the Gresks and then the Romans borrowed the concept of
from anctent Afrika and Asia’s high

culture sctense mythology. A "che-rub-in" mesnt composite winged

Eros and Cuptd, the “charubin,

oreature form, 1ike angsls, to love, care, guARd over, watch over,
derend, protec

five safaty, sscurity and vitality for the benefit

of people on sarth.

Love was a very hot tople back then as it s today. Tvo minds

and hearts untted in love can move mountaina. It 1s the unified

£1014 of trus, genuine love that makes this possid:

. In other vords,

Erotis 1o variant or different spellings of Eros, but has the
same meantng. Cupid, vhose nass in Latin also mesns “sxcessive

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Jove 1s one contimuous sonaection from the beglning of tise L0 the
end. Love is pure truth. It's not a myth like Eros or Cupid. It's
real n every respest. It's real 1n every sense. Complete a5 & fUl1
otrele of energy.

here's Do trick to love. You cammot force someone e Jove JOU
againat their vill, becsuse true love 1s freely given and sOmElmes
164 not give

yourl1 know 4¢. Either you're in love or you're not. ove is Vet

back. Love 1s exulting (oyful). Wen you'se in love

1t L. Yo one can make 1t vhat 1t 1s not.

Love 1a the direct cpposite of hate. Though, 4t tises. 1t'*
confused as being the ssms thing. Love 1s sharing with another Jike

the atr ve breath. ALl pecple and things breath. Love lsa'd EFesdy:
but uhon our love is betrsyed our fesltngs are hurt beyond el
inagination. The betrayal of our love hurts very badly fur a Yer

Long tine. Beceuss love s 40 open and trust orthy, wbsa deliberate
S1on cresp in they inflict Eapiag vousds o

ona‘a unsuspesting hesrt and mind leaving lesting sears behind-

1ae, docett and doc

Defanse machantans sre ussd as & means to cope ith the myriad
of problens one experience throughout one’s 14fe. Many defense
mechantsms are bullt during one's shildhood. The mesoriss are &

1n o manner that
push other pecple susy. Same pecple Fun avay froa thoss o stert to

inful scmatines that they cause & perecn Lo Feas

care sbout tham too much. The buss vords: "1 love you,” is the slams
that 10 tnterpreted as *right or flight.”

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A Peraon an, by way of no harm, say something or do something
o another that reninds them of & bad experience and be resdy to do
DAttle or run, or both. People who've experienced turbulent intimate

relationships, sspectally 1f they were deeply in love, butlds
Peehologtoal walls around themssive
onds 1¢'a usually with muich emotional patn and stoms resentment.
While nvolved with enother subsequent intimate relationship it's

- Vhen the love relationship

#fully hard to love agein wnconditionally for fear of being hurt.
Thess, and mors, are very ssrious problems. The less ome overstand
or undoratand

When one 1a sonsciously aare of a probim and
Das the ansuer to 1t, then the problem 1s smsller and ssster to
hend1

Bvery front n
Every woman a man. Every men & woman. Every a
£ 1¢. Por every problem, no matter vhat the size, hes its oppostte
utton. The selution 1s

# back. Every top a botton. Every right a lort.
t1on has an anaver

hich s the solution. Every problem hes a
the ansuer. Mew relationships poses problams sometimes, becsuse one

OF both 1ndividusls have erscted barriers that keeps the other at

Mt 15 porceived as a aafe dlstance outside the door of one's

heart. People whoss marrisgs hes ended in divorse express the

tendencies. The emotional brick walls srected around oneself are

%0 moaninGRuL relationships s one trevels on
2

tnviatble barrtca:

the earth plane. They avold giving themselves to anyone slse for

four of

tng hurt agetn.

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Love 1s utaoat self-respest. Love is faithful and excellant in
attention, Ve communicats our feslings of love in plesssnt manners
that allow our brue feslings of love to shou and glow. Love is the
peacefulaess and plesssntness of our care and concern for the
foslings of others. Love sharpens one's vision and insight.

Infatustion 1a blinding to your sense of Tessontng. Tour
perception of a resl cbject becomes distorted or beat out of shape-
hose who chase after people ith uhoa they're infatusted is chasing

ufter thetr fantasy. You don't care about their personal privacy in

thetr homs or 1n the bathroaa. You invade their private lives
\ithout soncern for thelr personal feelings.

More often than net, ifatustion for scasbody or something tbat
Jou Jook upon as & sex ayabol is vorss, because vhen Jour excessive
dentred cbject is totally unattainable or insccessible tha infatus-
tion 1s greatast. It raises the level of cbseasion to hysteris. In

Jour sexual ments and foolish affestion for &

uch cases as thas
aex syabol is the hysterical, cbassaion With a fantesy. Teur infat-
uation 1a an unresl perception of & real cbject; and, scastimes an

unreal perception of an unresl bject.

Another sxample of infatustion 1s whan sports players, movie
atars, and singing entertainers soms to tovn, throngs of vosen
push, shove, scresa and elew everybody in their path in frantic
ttempts to touch, and be seen by the entertainar. Sese women
resk through the crouds and atesl kisses from the sntertainer.
Vemen, sapestally the young onas, rite thelr addressse aad tele

Shone musbers on pleses of paper and throw 1t upon the stege whers

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the entertainer 1a perfoming. They've also thrown the keys to thetr
hosis or the keye to their hotel/actel room upon the stage. Vomen
BaTe even pulled off their jutey sosked panties wnd throvn them in
the a1r &t the entertainer. Vomen willingly d1d thess things in the
Presence of their own boy-friends, fiences and husbands. Wiy don't
7 tousrd thelr om men folk, who they elain to love
rittont

wonen act thta
0 much, aa they do the entertatners or

Men are also ardent (passionate) fane of entertatrers. But men .
St G1TTarently than vomen vhen they are infatusted vith someone.
Men usuALly snesk and chass after women and maks & ot of lying
Pronisss. Some men stare at the person in silence thinking sbout hot,
Passionate sex. Others sometines try to find out what the person
1ike and V11 do almost anything to get 1t for them to win their
favor. Ken have the propensity (inclinetion) to resdily vork sxtra
hard, flash their money, steal, rob, fight, and Kill to got the
attention of the person vith whom they're infatusted. They may even
Dring or send flowers, write letters and restte postry to txpross

Women. But should the man btain the personal affection of the
wmn and got betwsen her thighs, feels that he has condered, and
Often inds hinsslf Infatuated with another. And the cyele sontinus

Most fans would react normally and calnly arter a whils when
Placed VAth the object of thelr excsssive destre; the infatustion
WUl wear ff and the object would be exposed as & normal, but,
Perhape, interesting person or thing. Only the slinfcally obses
OF mentally disturbed vould st11l be infatueted to the point of .

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overlocking faults and flaus about the object of thelr excessive
dostres and instesd sssigaing qualities normal people oF thLagS
would ot possess.

Erotic impulses and foolish, exaggerated affactions 1a toe
hystaries) craving for the object of Your desire. That is o 83

the hysterioal destre for somebody you think 1s perfect, vitbout
lava. Trotie impulses for your dresm mate are personal feelinks.
You don't know vhether your perscnal feslings will correspond vith
rexlity or not. Your feslings are real, however fooltsh er irFaticnal,
but that doesn't make the person you desire feel the sams vay about
Jou. 7o correspond 13 to matah oF 1o be agrseable. Bxcessiveness i
Arrational, abnormal, greedy.

\omen fasls ke thatr drom mate is the flmdess knight
4hin dng azmor, as vritten in falxy tales, o comss to ber Tescues
4lays the wild beast, sweep har off her foot, got maried. 4nd 1ives
Tou astribute
qualities to your object of infatuation that are false When you
chase after your sbject of infatuation you attribute quelitiss to
tham that you think ordinary pecple don't have to EERtlly your
soxual dasires and 1ive & fantasy.

happily ever arter. Fairy tales are false stor!

Tonsly, ixratioss] sen scmetines ot s if they'rs trsped {n

u frogs body uatil besutiful princess with magicel charms cose
ulong and Kiss hin vhich nakes hin tura into & basdsoss prince. e
marries the princess and have lots ofshildren and live in a castle

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in the atr. A Kiss from an ordtnery women sould not have done this.
Another exemple 1s the fabled story about the prinee who found a
in his search for the mysterious
Princass who lost 1t. He tried to £1t the ance o every vomen he
3aw unt12 he located her.

£1ass s1ipper and became obe

Excessivensss leads to groed. You do not find feslt in your
oun excesaive desires. You pretend and make-belleve. Infatution
<louds your thought proc
ERings that are not there and things that you want to be there. You
Ehink the people with vhom you're nfatuated are perfest, vithout
iatakes or blontshes; every strand of hefr 1s porfect, every tooth, -
TOrY toe natl, every bone, svery shape and Tigurs of thetr physteat
body 18 Just right and w111 alveys be the smme. You fantacise that

Four erotic drews mate 1 a perfest thing unchangeable.

- Your ive senses precteves and conceives

Everybody changs. Nothing reains the same. Eversthing and
verybody g9 through @ process of growth and development. While some-
thing s ooming into being or born, sonething 1s passing may or
being sbout to dle, except (seve) the person with whom you're nfat-
Uated. As far as you're concerned that particuler person will remain
the smme, @ flavless cbject, until your infatustion vith them
Fubaides Or sottle down. Oncs you obtain or attatn your objest of
desire, s 1t often happens, the relationship ends with great dta-
#Ppotntment, because 1t'a not what you thought Lt would be. Your
Tire of destrs ¢ins end you intentionally find fault in the thinge
they 48y or do. You becche less happy. Your sxpectations of them
are lovered and your emotionsl Joys frustrated.

Infatuation 1s & higaten subjective vay of thisking and feeling
bout your chjest of sxcessive desire. Because subjective feslizer
in objeotive reality vhich

e datormined by your perception and concepticn shout somebedy out-
aida of yourself. But 1n your oun mind you meke up false qualities
\bout then. Infatuations are perscnsl faslings. The more you foel
that your objest of axsessive desire is unsttaioable the mptiEte OF
yatory about 1t incresses vhish makes you erave £or it all et

mueh mare.

More oftan than not peopl
to ubat love 1a. Same are sonfused as to uhat they think leve should
be. 34111 more are sonfused as o uhat they should do to exprest
Jove to anothar. The firet thing they think shout i sex.

00 many people erronsously think love 1a sexual interceuris:
Saxual penetration 1o the physiesl sstion or prosess of eaterinf the
body savity of another vith one's sex orgen oF taking inside coe'

ody the sex organ of azother. Semal penatration slso is dese VA
one's hands or fingers and things other than ith cnets SeX OGS
Sexuad intercourss s sexual penetration.

o hear 16 a1l the time: “Latis make Jove'; "Does my love fecl
Love me scms more®j "She's got soss good loving"}
“after maxiag Jove

5004 to you'
“¥ou give good love"s "Ma can really maks love';
“o bar, or hin, 1 fell n love"; *The first tise 1 mads lows’

=show me bow to make love} "1 love you mare”} “Flesse tessh me hov
o love® ™1 vant you to tesch ma how to love") "Ne's 4 champlon

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3over®; “He's & great Jover"; "Mt your hot love on ") “Love making
18 everything"; *1111 put this good loving on hia") "Let me maks love
forth and 20 on.

£0 7ou"s "Give me your love"; “Love me now”,

61ging In sexual intercourse dossn't slvaye memn love. Serval
Penetration by 1tself doesn't mesn love. Same times people engage in
#exusl intercourss as & way to releass pent in frastration. Becsuse
700 ¢an love scmeone without engestng tn
then. You can

Gratification te pleasure or satiafaction. Sexual gratification
10 the enjoyment of resching « sexsal climex. Up to the potnt of
€limax foelings of ecatasy covers your whole body 1tke a warm bianket.
At that moment you're full of Joy. Peslings of phystosl happine
#ures (rise and move) through you from head to tos. That te phystcal
tesy. Ve got temporary physteal satiefaction from the tntense,
bLssfu, tingling foelings at the climex of sexual ntercourse; and
that more often than not, 1s 1dentirt.

2ome.,

Por sxemple, & person can marry, have children, grandehildren,

0 avay and never have loved their mate. They
" & fently, stey tn the seme houss or apartment,
't the sme food, g0 0ut to the seme pla

1tve a long 11re,
could 1tve together
100 1 the sume bed,
+ maver d1vorce or ssparate, and never for one moment truly

togethe;
10v24 one another. Some people marry for money;
% or both. Tt happens a11 the time.

in some marry for

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Mot pecple adait they love sex. o Whatl Dope Fleuds sénit
they love drugs. Aleoholics love alcholie drinks. Teople have ssid
they love Los eresm. But is this love, reslly? Or is 1t the infat-
\uation with sext A person may say they "love you,” them wurn
around and intentionally hust you, begause they love you. So they
lain, T enjoyment of sexuel intercourse vithout feeliags of
gonutne love 1s lust. So vhat 1s love in relation to sext

Commnioation s the 1ife line of all hussn relationahive-
Gomuntoaticn jotns, corresponds or sonnests pacple to one snother
by sending messages o an exchangs of information by sowd, sight,
amall, touch, and taste. Sexual intercourse is an aet of physical

commntcation. The relationship s the connection between people,
both mantally and physically.

Sexual tntercourse 1a an expre

on of phystoal untty. Sesuel
Antercourss 1a tha physiesl comestion of unity. Sexual imterogurse
betusen twe people trusly in love with ons another 1s & way of
being in phystcal unity, Total love is physical and mental waity.
Sexusl intercourss betussn people vho trusly and honestly love each

other 1s & physteal expression of unity. People become physically as
one while joined togsther in sexusl intercourss. Tvo Pyslcal bodie
united 1n sexual intercourss s physical unity. Sexuel intercourse

10 & vay to be phystcally united vith ancther. The purpose of sexusl

intersourss 1a not Just for reproduction, but, aleo to be as one
Physteatly.

he best sexual relationships, houever, are thoss that Willingly
unify the physies) and the mental, and when & voman ooceives of

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e phystens
on of love has to besoms
truely be an expression of tetal
Sexusl intercourse should aleo be the physteal expression of
true feslings of love tovards another. A soltd somestion
st exlot with the phystcal body and mental mind before sexuel
Intercourss oan be a true exprossion of love for another. Fysiear
unity ean be sasily broken by physteal separation, but no mmount
©f Physteal dlstant oan separate two minds tn love. People in love
©AFTY thoughts of one another Wherever they go. Sexual tntercourse
18 an energetic labor of love for the people who truely love sach
other.

It hes been sa1d that "love endures all things." tne samot
dove gemiinely another until one first has love for oneself. one’s
face 11luninates vhen 1n love. You love someone, not for vhat you
€40 £8% from them, but what you oan give. The most important girt
thAt 7ou €014 give to the very spectal scmecne you ove 1s yourser.
You give of yourselr.

There’s tremandous strength in love. Self-love 1a firet and 1a
# YOTY ood thing, but Lt's confined to & very small ares, trapped
4netde 7ou and wnable to expand until 1t 1a shared with someons el
then the pover of love breaks forth 1ike rays of the sun through

£00my clouds shimering 1n a1l ts
ful force. Love 1 & unifier. It's snergizing and inspires confidance

Love 15 an a11 pover-

4nd hops for the best. You can st111 love someone sven tn death,
because mentally your love for them a
oparation by

n't stop uhen they o

he love you express outeide of yourself ia an extession of your
Somer self. Love radiates ositive vibes from your whole belng 1ike
Flovers or tress sprouting from seeds groving and developisg 12
ullness. The sesd of love is in your scul Bourished by the free
iving love of rain and sun light for another. It takes both. Ia
other vords, 1t takes tio. Like the two spresded vings of & dave in
\plendid Alight, futtering, soariag to the cefling heigst. T sight
of 11ght ahove insendescenting, shimsering, thriving to the sumsit of
paradise, the pesk of love. The ardsnt (passionste) glem of & birds
o7e view sulming 1n the vind and sitiing on the air liks drems o
tnd while aslesp. The toush of the caring hand caressing
tonderly as a fitting glove of love, husble and mesk.

Love 1a uaconditional, bessuss 1t doesn’t ask for amything in
return. Those who say that love is for the ueak are sounted &ROOS
the stupid. Love lives and thrives off love. It's campassionste- It
gives and does not take. Your love for others is seen by the VeI
Jou treat tham. Love manifest as the giving of Jourself. Love is &
poverful moving foree. It's ot for sale, Love dossn't have & Price
tag. You cantt buy it Any thing with a price can be Dought, barters:
and s01d. Yos, there 1s such & vord aa "oen't,” because you can't
hold love 1n your hand 1ike merchandt

Love 1a axpressed in action. Love 1s seen by the vay you live
your 14fe. Love La unity. Love 1an't phony. True love s mot & mers
word, because thare are many vords for love, but thare's ealy o0s
love. Unity means one. Tnfty fs love. But Lt etill takes tvo. T
scmabody you beccme as one with them, EVARE O
Jourself in uatty, their pain is Jour paln, their joy your JoTs 80

Because vhan you lov

Ell
forth and s on. One scmplets love. Unty.

TePpiness La love. You can't be hapry without love. Thers fs no
29ch thing as happiness without love. You must have love and be 1n
Jove to be harpy. Love is contort, 1ife end paractse. Zove knows mo
foar. Love is total trust. Love 1s all ensompaseing 1n svery atom
4nd moleculo. Love 1s peaceful. Love envelopes tonderly a1l of
hunanity. Love fa thoughtful, gentle, kind. Love s mereiful ent
£riondly. Love s not Slnd. Love ta expressed vith eyes open. You
love somecne for who they are ot for thetr money, slothe
Other materfal things they may poss

iyeiend Jooks has very 1ttle to do with love. Beceuse besaty
of ove mantfest in the vay you act nd condust yourself; you mey
b+ 6004 Jooking or handsome according to a particular soetatiss
standards, but your actions and behavior may be also wely. Hamen
beings aren't flevless. Ve a1l make mistakes out of Sgnorance. Love
18 Iman GLErty. Love fe enduring. It helps others to tmprove, te
be thelr vory bast. Love 1s besutiful. Love concerns iteelr with
©nly love. It s gloriows and vonderful. One vith the rhyttm of the
untverse.

Leve s devotionsl. When 7ou love somons you give them your
time and your devotion. You've always got time for love, because
L8 10 one vith you. Vherover spur love fa s ou are. Love ts matural
#nd unders tanding and honest. Love stends on its ovm, It
contatned. It doesn't mesd a crutch.

\banaver you give sossbody & thing of value to Jou expecting

anly to got some thing in Fetur you sl JOURAGLr up for distppolots
st beoause you dontt lvays gt back umat Jou expeot b0 et ¢
12 bettar to give somsthing of lesting valus that soney oea't b,
und A7 youtre not offered say thing in return, than Jou vould net
e dinappotnted. You feel lot dova uhen Jou expest something fo°

\hat 7ou give aa & gift and not get one of equel yelue in retiT:

5 they love you, but almost
1a not comslete love,

That betng the
alusys bold something beck from You. Thd
ecause youtre holding besk and ot giving your all. Vhen people 12
naed ask for help you should be glad to do 0 With o atrings

ttached. Otve your help, Af you're sble, and be gled. It is selfish
oum ahotces) and €xpect to be

pecple often

to give gifts on your volition (ons!
given & gift in roturn. Selfish people aluays think bout vhat thev

oan got for thamsslves at the expenss of others.

You would run through buraing hell and soalding vater vithout

asitation just to be with the one Jou love. You want te be vhers

Jove 1s shared. The primary goal of 1ife is love. e love for
It matters greatly.

Jourself and love for another 1s shared love
11 space. If you don't have love for yourself
You alvays thisk

bacause 1t oceupt

then you don't have any to give to any one el
and vish the best for them. Love 18
1 your 14fe out of love for anotiar if

i which makes,

never folt trus

vo 11

Bacause the one true love ia the 1
and thoss who

aure

11 the mors worth whil:

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“hared with another, scothing,

1a vholesome 11ving
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