Love is apart from all things. br Desire and excitement are nothing beside it. br It is not the body that finds love. br What leads us there is the body. br What is not love provokes it. br What is not love quenches it. br Love lays hold of everything we know. br The passions which are called love br also change everything to a newness br at first. Passion is clearly the path br but does not bring us to love. br It opens the castle of our spirit br so that we might find the love which is br a mystery hidden there. br Love is one of many great fires. br Passion is a fire made of many woods, br each of which gives off its special odor br so we can know the many kinds br that are not love. Passion is the paper br and twigs that kindle the flames br but cannot sustain them. Desire perishes br because it tries to be love. br Love is eaten away by appetite. br Love does not last, but it is different br from the passions that do not last. br Love lasts by not lasting. br Isaiah said each man walks in his own fire br for his sins. Love allows us to walk br in the sweet music of our particular heart.