There is a much greater motivation than simply my spoken words.
For me to love, is to commit myself, freely and without reservation.
I am sincerely interested in your happiness and well being. Whatever your needs
are, I will try to fulfill them and will bend in my values depending on the
importance of your need. If you are lonely and need me, I will be there. If in
that loneliness you need to talk, I will listen. If you need to listen, I
will talk. If you need the strength of human touch, I will touch you. If you
need to be held, I will hold you. I will lie naked in body with you if that be
your need. If you need fulfillment of the flesh, I will give you that also, but
only through my love.
I will try to be constant with you so that you will understand the
core of my personality and from that understanding you can gain strength and
security that I am acting as me. I may falter with my moods. I may project, at
times, a strangeness that is alien to you which may bewilder or frighten you.
There will be times when you question my motives. But because people are never
constant and are as changeable as the seasons, I will try to build up within you
a faith in my fundamental attitude and show you that my inconsistency is only
for the moment and not a lasting part of me. I will show you love now. Each and
every day, for each day is a lifetime. Every day we live, we learn more how to
love. I will not defer my love nor neglect it, for if I wait until tomorrow,
tomorrow never comes. It is like a cloud in the sky, passing by. They always do,
you know!
If I give you kindness and understanding, then I will receive your
faith. If I give hate and dishonesty, I will receive your distrust. If I give
you fear and am afraid, you will become afraid and fear me. I will give to you
what I need to receive.
The degree of love I give is determined by my own capability. My
capability is determined by the environment of my past existence and my
understanding of love, truth and God. My understanding is determined by my
parents, friends, places I have lived and been. Each experience is fed into my
mind from living.
I will give you as much love as I can. If you show me how to give
more, then I will give more. I can only give as much as you need to receive or
allow me to give. If you receive all I can give, then my love is endless and
fulfilled. If you receive a portion (part) of my love, then I will give others
the balance I am capable of giving. I must give all that I have, being what I
am.
Love is universal. Love is the movement of life. I have loved a boy,
a girl, my parents, art, nature. All things in life I find beautiful. No human
being or society has the right to condemn any kind of love I feel or my way of
expressing it, if I am sincere; sincerity being the honest realization of myself
without hurt or pain for my life or any life my life touches.
I want to become a truly loving spirit. Let my words, if I must
speak, become the restoration of your soul. But when speech is silent, does a
man project the great depth of his sensitivity. When I touch you, or kiss you,
or hold you, I am saying a thousand words.
Walter Rinder
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