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Love..

Love becomes us when we truly love. It is not the words and actions, but the embodiment of the words and actions. When we love something or someone, it is easy for others to see. There is a richness that exists in us that is easy to sense.

Becomes is an interesting word. We might simply understand it as love is something we become. Better perhaps is that love is something that we wear well and show well. It becomes us. There is a radiance that exudes from us when we embody love. It is not just a passing fancy. Love is lasting and always becoming.

Antonio Machado is a wonderful poet. The image provided and the short quote from a Machado poem are beautiful and inspiring.

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When I read the article, I noticed how the word profess was used. It is a verb and action. We profess something and declare something publicly. It is interesting how a verb quickly is turned into a noun and a static object.

Used as a verb, profess connects to vocation. Vocation finds its roots in voice and when we profess something we speak from the heart and our voice speaks in our working and living.

Our word and actions sow the seeds we live. It is in meditation we find those seeds and see them sprout in the nurturing that a meditative life provides.

John Dewey wrote that we communicate those things we have in common when we live in community. The Rumi quote speaks to the human and humane nature of what that means. We often see the difference first. The French philosopher Jacques Derrida spoke about differance (there is no a in difference in French either) as being a place where we defer in the presence of difference. The word difference in French means both difference and deference. It is the place where we see the humanity in each of us as the core of human commonality. When we play with words, we come to some extraordinary places.