I am a retired special education teacher. I taught high school age students that were at risk of not graduating. These quotations are a product of both personal encounters and moments of reflection and meditation. Many references address elements of nature. I have a cabin on a lake in the north woods that provides its residents with a lot of peace and tranquility. When I was in my mid thirties I started a comprehensive study of personal enlightenment by reading and workshops with various mentors. Over the past ten years I have concentrated more on being my own teacher through reflection and meditation. In some respect I could say that I have always been in love while not so good at expressing myself.

A series of more recent events in my life have motivated me to start putting into word so much that I have been holding in. Many of my reflections regarding love were longer than those presented. I broke those down to include single concepts that could be reflected upon or used by the reader to help form their own words of love.