<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460134" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Love and understanding</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who today would praise<br>consciousness itself, <br>which brings new life and thought<br>every morning, opening<br>our minds a little more, <br>making the light seem brighter, <br>everything more vivid, <br>life itself more worth living? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">This morning, I read the words<br>‘Love itself is understanding’…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and in the mind, doors blew open, <br>windows rattled, a wind<br>that smelled of spring and grass and rain<br>blew through the mind</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and the word love<br>blew off the dusty shelf<br>along with the cobweb<br>but lay unbroken on the floor<br>waiting to be washed and put back<br>next to understanding</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and the silliest, biggest gift of all<br>is to know for the first time<br>what you’ve always known</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and which nearly two thousand years ago<br>Gregory the Great<br>also recognised for the first time, <br>maybe felt the same way, as if<br>he was entrusted with the key<br>to a large house on a windy day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460134" data-title="Love and understanding de Michael Shepherd" data-description="Who today would praise consciousness itself, which brings new life and thought every morning, opening our minds a little more, making the light seem brighter, everything more vivid, life itself more worth living? This morning, I read the wor..."></div> </div> </div>

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