LOVE DREAMS

Every person carries within his heart a blueprint of the one he loves.

We already have an ideal in us - one which is made by our thinking, our habits, our experiences and our desires.

Calm minds like calm music: the heart has its own secret melody.

So it is with love. A tiny architect works for the human heart drawing sketches of the ideal love from the people it sees, from the book it reads, from its hopes and daydreams, in the fond hope that the eye may one day see the ideal and the hand touches it.

God, too, has within himself blueprints of everything in the universe. God has in his mind an archetypal idea of every flower, bird, tree, springtime and melody. Every atom and every rose is realization and concretion of an idea existing in the mind of God from all eternity. All creatures below man correspond to the pattern God has in his mind. A tree is truly a tree because it corresponds to God's idea of a tree.

In marriage, love begins with a dream. "To know a woman at the hour of desire, one must first respect her at the exquisite hour of dream." Love then is an act of faith, a declaration of the unseen as the real.

If ideals are not high, if the blueprints of love are not beautiful, then the marriage itself will not be beautiful.

The novitiate of marriage must neccesarily embrace two elements: the spiritualization of personal lives in order that the sublime architectural blueprint of life's partner be formed within, and a constant prayer that God Himself will dispose historical condition to make the dreams come true.

With marriage and its ripening with the fruit of love, there will dawn a new understanding that everyone carries with him a blueprint of the One he loves, and that One is God.

Love, which began as passion, then become an act and now in the autumn of life becomes once again a desire born of memory; the "new passionless passion" strains at the leash of life to be one with life, truth and love.

Love, which is a reflection of God's unbodied essence, will remain their eternal ecstacy. There will be no faith in heaven, for we will already see; there will be no hope in heaven, for we will already possess, but there will always be love. God is love.