If you would like to read a truly thought provoking post I recommend The Wonderful Mystery of Communication which is found at this link.
“I probably ought to distinguish what I’ll call “true communication” from more general notions of what communication is. True communication has a quality that is very distinct from run of the mill (cultural) discourse. In fact, most people rarely experience true communication. And yet, without a doubt, you’ve experienced it. If you’ve ever been a mother holding a newborn baby, then you know what it is. Perhaps you’ve experienced true communication in your lover’s embrace, or held the hand of someone who is dying. Maybe you’ve experienced it during a spiritual retreat. If you’ve ever delivered or received an apology that comes from the Heart, then you’ve been in true communication. It’s also been there the times you’ve been touched, moved, or inspired by someone, or if you were the one providing the inspiration.
What do all of these experiences have in common? Communication provided an “opening” for Love to be present. It was unconditional. Accepting. Without judgment. It was a creative act. And almost certainly, thinking and understanding took a backseat, at least for a short period of time.”
Root
September 2, 2007
It would be too sad to have a beautiful post on communication and then not have any comments. :) Great writing as always. You have a real gift.
brightfeather
September 2, 2007
Thank you for the undeserved compliment. It seems my gift is being able to find what learned people have said on subjects that interest me. In this case and IMO the best words ever written on love are found here:
1 Corinthians 13
Love
1. If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
2. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
3. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
4. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
5. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
6. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
7. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.
9. For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
10. but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears.
11. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.
12. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.