Love is simple. It is non-contingent. It is unconditional. It is given. It is healing, It honors and respects. It is hopeful and graceful. It is many things:

  • Patient
  • Kind
  • Humility
  • Honoring
  • Truthful
  • Protective
  • Trusting
  • Hopeful
  • Persevering

These virtues envelop the word love and when we understand it they glimmer and shine like the sun’s light and warmth casting itself on each of these aspects of love.

These words give us a broad range of options that we might adopt and discuss. Across time, the caring community should evolve its own word for unconditional love and its own definition. This should eventually become the central part of the caring community. You have to imagine expressing love at the worst moments when the person is a stranger and not related to us and even engages in repugnant acts. To express unconditional love in such moments is the true test of our ability to express it.