Read and written by W. Norman Cooper, Seize The Day, p 26

All genuine religion teaches that love--and love alone--is the fulfilling of the law; and selfless love which finds its source in divine Love is the pathway to true and lasting happiness.

We must learn that love must be and is selfless. One finds happiness only when he has so much faith in his own God-given worth that he loves selflessly. One finds no lasting happiness when he seeks selfishly to be loved. Love is giving--giving even to one's enemies. It is giving love because it is the blessed privilege and duty of each of us to love.

It may seem too idealistic to believe that the love which seeks to give--rather than to receive--is the great power which brings one into contact with Divinity. But if it is idealism, it is practical idealism. It is the practical idealism which was expressed by a Florence Nightingale or an Albert Schweitzer. Love is the practical idealism which each of us should strive to express in daily thought and life.