The Lover

The true lover knows that love is not merely an urge of the body, an animal instinct to find a mate. It is also a spiritual and uplifting experience which makes him glad and thankful. Many lovers want to write poetry, compose music, sing songs or just carve two names on a tree. The lover does not love only for what he can get out of it. In fact, he is prepared to suffer and even die for the one he loves. He knows that such a power within him is spiritual.

He knows also that he loves a person not merely because of a beautiful face or figure. He loves for inner qualities more than physical ones. So the lover in the popular song says:

“She was lovely and fair as the rose of the summer,
Yet ’twas not her beauty alone that won me.
Oh no ’twas the truth in her eyes ever-drawning
That made me love Mary the Rose of Tralee.”

The same applies not only to the love of boy and girl, but also the love of husband and wife, parents and children, child for parents and friend for friend.

Men are also delighted by beautiful music, noble words of poet or speaker, paintings, scenery, beauty of line in boat, aeroplane or motorcar. They know it is not just the eye or the ear that is pleased, but a spiritual power within them.