What is Love

What is love?
Love is respect and devotion,
The perfect harmony of true affection and kindness
      one for the other.
It is like clear spring water
    that sweetly moistens and silently penetrates:
Tender feelings flowing continuously
    with sincere, endless dedication.
Love is as generous as sunshine,
    warmly caring and voluntarily giving with deep affection,
    is intimate and free,
    genuine, touching, profoundly tolerant.

What is love?
Love is respect and devotion,
The perfect harmony of true affection and kindness
    one for the other.
It is like the stars in the sky
    that shine and sparkle:
Always there, firmly above us,
    transcending earthly time and space.
Love is the harvest of our cultivation:
    ploughed in spring, sowed in summer,
    reaped in autumn and stored in winter;
    only through our persistent labor can we enjoy
    its sweet, rich, intoxicating fruits!

Ah—under magnificent sunshine, neither darkness nor confusion,
    only brightness and openness:
    true feelings given without regret or greed,
    complaint or hatred.
Ah—within true love’s realm, neither narrow-mindedness nor discontent,
     Only tolerance and understanding, forgiveness and loyalty are required:
     Knowing each other well, embracing each other with hearts sincere and true.

This, then, is love—real love, noble love: the love that leads
    to beauty and happiness forever.