"For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation."
Rainer Maria Rilke
"Someday after mastering the wind, the waves, the tides, and gravity, we shall harness the energies of love. And then, for the second time in the history of the world, we will have discovered fire."
Teilhard de Chardin
“While love cannot be forced upon anyone it can be awakened through love itself. Those who receive love from others cannot be its recipients without giving a response that, in itself, is in the nature of love. This is how humanity will attain a new mode of being and life through the free and unhampered interplay of pure love from heart to heart.”
Meher Baba
With love,
Janet
F. Nuria Quinn,
Artist/Creator for Wisdom Stones
Director, HaelanWorks,
products and services for Whole Person Healing
New Testament, John 13:34-35
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We all want and need love in our lives, and we all hope that our relationships, especially with those closest to us, will be truly loving. But wanting, needing and hoping usually aren’t enough; it takes daily practice to create more loving relationships! It would be hard to find a better coach in this “love-practice” than St. Paul in his letter to the people of Corinth. No wonder 1st Corinthians 13:1-8 is one of the world’s most popular and beloved wedding readings!
LoveStones make wonderful, truly meaningful wedding gifts, especially for those who are using this reading at the wedding. Couples have used them to create sacred space honoring their relationship in their new home together or even as part of their wedding ritual. Some brides have given them as gifts to their attendants, and others have used one stone at each place setting at a wedding reception as favors and ongoing inspiration.
You can keep LoveStones in the beautiful red enamel-like box with the verse card standing in a frame with it in a visible place in your home. If you have a prayer altar or meditation space, that is perfect, but they might also sit next to a wedding picture on the dresser, or on an end table in the living room where they can inspire the whole family as well as your guests. Carefully place the LoveStones with the intention that they might help you to remember what matters most. See a simple meditation to guide you more specifically in using the LoveStones to focus your daily intention. However one chooses to use them, LoveStones can help to remind us of how we really want to be in our lives, and what we most want to give and receive. Day by day, we will become better and better at the sacred art of loving.
Love is patient; Love is kind; Love is not rude; Love is not envious; Love does not demand its own way; Love is not resentful; Love rejoices in the truth; Love hopes all things; Love endures all things; Love never fails.
The set comes with ten cultured marble stones, each one inscribed with one of St. Paul's famous instructions for practicing love, as follows: