Desire and excitement are nothing beside it ...
It is not the body that finds love ...
What leads us there is the body ...
What is not love provokes it ...
What is not love quenches it ...
Love lays hold of everything we know ...
The passions which are called love
Also change everything to a newness at first ...
Passion is clearly the path But does not bring us to love ...
It opens the castle of our spirit
So that we might find the love
Which is a mystery hidden there ...
Love is one of many great fires ...
Passion is a fire made of many woods
Each of which gives off its special odor
So we can know the many kinds
That are not love ...
Passion is the paper and twigs
That kindle the flames
But cannot sustain them ...
Desire perishes
Because it tries to be love ...
Love is eaten away by appetite ...
Love does not last ...
But it is different
From the passions that do not last ...
Love lasts by not lasting ...
Isaiah said each man walks in his own fire
For his sins ...
Love allows us to walk
In the sweet music of our particular heart ...
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