Thought For The Day No. 43 - With The Rabbi Anders Weiss

...psychologist, spiritual guru and arbiter of good taste...

Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his/her spiritual being..[and] inner self. Whether or not he/she is actually present, whether or not he/she is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.

I did not know whether my wife was alive, and I had no means of finding out...but at that moment it ceased to matter. There was no need for me to know; nothing could touch the strength of my love, of my thoughts, and the image of my beloved. Had I known then that my wife was dead, I think that I would still have given myself, undisturbed by that knowledge, to the contemplation of her image, and that my mental conversation with her would have been just as satisfying. 'Set me like a seal upon thy heart, love is as strong as death'.

Viktor Frankl