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no time worrying about its departure. Worry will never bring it back.

Dismiss, also, the thought that love never comes but once. Love may come and go,
times without number, but there are no two love experiences which affect one in
just the same way. There may be, and there usually is, one love experience which
leaves a deeper imprint on the heart than all the others, but all love experiences
are beneficial, except to the person who becomes resentful and cynical when love
makes its departure.

There should be no disappointment over love, and there would be none if peo-
ple understood the difference between the emotions of love and sex. The major
difference is that love is spiritual, while sex is biological. No experience, which
touches the human heart with a spiritual force, can possibly be harmful, except
through ignorance, or jealousy.

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Love is, without question, life's greatest experience. It brings one into commun-
ion with Infinite Intelligence. When mixed with the emotions of romance and sex,
it may lead one far up the ladder of creative effort. The emotions of love, sex, and
romance, are sides of the eternal triangle of achievement-building genius. Nature
creates genii through no other force.

Love is an emotion with many sides, shades, and colors. The love which one feels
for parents, or children is quite different from that which one feels for one's sweet-
heart. The one is mixed with the emotion of sex, while the other is not.

The love which one feels in true friendship is not the same as that felt for one's
sweetheart, parents, or children, but it, too, is a form of love.

Then, there is the emotion of love for things inanimate, such as the love of Nature's
handiwork. But the most intense and burning of all these various kinds of love,
is that experienced in the blending of the emotions of love and sex. Marriages,
not blessed with the eternal affinity of love, properly balanced and proportioned,
with sex, cannot be happy ones-and seldom endure. Love, alone, will not bring
happiness in marriage, nor will sex alone. When these two beautiful emotions are
blended, marriage may bring about a state of mind, closest to the spiritual that
one may ever know on this earthly plane.

When the emotion of romance is added to those of love and sex, the obstructions
between the finite mind of man and Infinite Intelligence are removed.

Then a genius has been born! What a different story is this, than those usually as-
sociated with the emotion of sex. Here is an interpretation of the emotion which