Eva-Maria Hogrefe: 08/01/2013

LOVE is like a beautiful large mansion, residing in a wide, expansive landscape of colors blue, green, and rose, add red and dove-blue, and white and purple tones, all spring out of the soil watered and cared well for by Love’s hand with generous powers, to reveal these different colors and tones of race, ethnicity, backgrounds, and so on, and for us to see them bloom.

Love’s mansion is surrounded by flowering shrubs, tall trees, birds, and butterflies, gardens of different sizes, filled with herbs, broccoli, asparagus, with all the healthy plants to nourish the one’s with an aching heart. And flowers, tall and small, grow everywhere to bring pleasure to the eyes and the inner senses.

Love’s mansion has many rooms! Many levels. In one of its upper chambers, where all things are pure and well laid-out to bring comfort, there I step in to listen to Love’s message of peace!

This sanctuary of love is my retreat, where I sit silently but hear, and pray and meditate. Holding YOU in my thought and heart, and knowing that love gently rests on you, and on all those in need.

These countless rooms have rooms in rooms, chambers where mental wardrobes are displayed, where certain recollections of rare occasions show their faces -- all to instruct -- and I am there to see, listen, and if you have a need, to bless and heal.

JUST THE WAY I WOULD

The dreams we share of freedom.

The dreams we share of love.

There is such a unison in our every

movement, in our every desire;

we are so alike that I cannot tell the

difference anymore between us.

I could walk into any house and feel

at home,

because you have arranged everything

just the way I would.

--Hafiz

Yes, dear, you have stretched your spiritual wings to fly upward in Love! And are spreading your affections. Adding strength to your flight (no stairs or ladders are required), just your heart-felt gratitude, a gratitude with love united.

In Love’s mansion you’ll find guest from every nation, and all tongues are understandable, for Love speaks in all tongues even though it needs no language.

And there we discover that whatever our struggles, whatever our trials, whatever our doubts, they make us stronger in LOVE, and bring us, in our awareness of Love, closer to the loving, gentle, warming embrace of its deep affection and ever-present care.

Deep within the self we all desire to play the melodies of LOVE, the sweet rhythms of head and heart! And when we let it, then with it comes a special joy in understanding, knowing, that we have the privilege and the freedom to live in Love’s mansion, and are always welcomed by LOVE – which is our mutual HOME!

--Eva-Maria

"I love you" -- in different laguages:

English - I love you  . . . Afrikaans - Ek het jou lief  . . . Albanian - Te dua . . . Arabic - Ana behibak (to male)  Arabic - Ana behibek (to female)  . . . Armenian - Yes kez sirumem . . .  Bambara - M’bi fe . . . Bengali - Ami tomake bhalobashi (pronounced: Amee toe-ma-kee bhalo-bashee)  . . . Belarusian - Ya tabe kahayu  . . . Bisaya - Nahigugma ako kanimo . . . . Bulgarian - Obicham te. . .  Cambodian - Soro lahn nhee ah . . . Catalan - T’estimo . . . Cherokee - Tsi ge yu i  . . . Cheyenne - Ne mohotatse  . . . Chichewa - Ndimakukonda  . . . Chinese  Cantonese - Ngo oiy ney a . . .  Mandarin - Wo ai ni  . . . Comanche - U kamakutu nu  . . . Corsican - Ti tengu caru (to male) . . .  Cree - Kisakihitin  . . . .Creole - Mi aime jou  . . . Croatian - Volim te  . . . Czech - Miluji te . . .  Danish - Jeg Elsker Dig

 Dutch - Ik hou van jou  . . . Elvish - Amin mela lle (from The Lord of The Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien) . . .  Esperanto - Mi amas vin  . . . Estonian - Ma armastan sind . . .  Ethiopian - Afgreki’  . . . Faroese - Eg elski teg . . .  Farsi - Doset daram  . . . Filipino - Mahal kita . . .  Finnish - Mina rakastan sinua . . .  French - Je t’aime, Je t’adore  . . . Frisian - Ik hald fan dy . . .  Gaelic - Ta gra agam ort  . . . Georgian - Mikvarhar  . . . German - Ich liebe dich  . . . Greek - S’agapo  . . . Gujarati - Hoo thunay prem karoo choo . . .  Hiligaynon - Palangga ko ikaw . . .  Hawaiian - Aloha Au Ia`oe . . .  Hebrew  To female - “ani ohev otach” (said by male) “ohevet Otach” (said by female) To male - “ani ohev otcha” (said by male) “Ohevet ot’cha” (said by female) . . .  Hiligaynon - Guina higugma ko ikaw . . .  Hindi - Hum Tumhe Pyar Karte hae  . . . Hmong - Kuv hlub koj  . . . Hopi - Nu’ umi unangwa’ta . . .  Hungarian – Szeretlek . . .  Icelandic - Eg elska tig . . .  Ilonggo - Palangga ko ikaw  . . . .Indonesian - Saya cinta padamu . . .  Inuit - Negligevapse  . . . Irish - Taim i’ ngra leat  . . . Italian - Ti amo  . . . Japanese - Aishiteru or Anata ga daisuki desu  . . . Kannada - Naanu ninna preetisuttene  . . . Kapampangan - Kaluguran daka  . . . Kiswahili - Nakupenda  . . . Konkani - Tu magel moga cho . . .  Korean - Sarang Heyo or Nanun tangshinul sarang hamnida . . .  Latin - Te amo

 Latvian - Es tevi miilu  . . . Lebanese - Bahibak  . . . Lithuanian - Tave myliu . . .  Luxembourgeois - Ech hun dech gaer . . . . Macedonian - Te Sakam . . .  Malay - Saya cintakan mu / Aku cinta padamu . . .  Malayalam - Njan Ninne Premikunnu  . . . Maltese – Inhobbok . . .  Marathi - Me tula prem karto  . . . Mohawk - Kanbhik  . . . Moroccan - Ana moajaba bik  . . . Nahuatl - Ni mits neki  . . . Navaho - Ayor anosh’ni  . . . Ndebele - Niyakutanda  . . . Norwegian  Bokmaal - Jeg elsker deg  . . . Nyonrsk - Eg elskar deg  . . . Pandacan - Syota na kita!!  . . . Pangasinan - Inaru Taka  . . . Papiamento - Mi ta stimabo  . . . Persian - Doo-set daaram  . . . Pig Latin - Iay ovlay ouyay . . . Polish - Kocham Ciebie

 Portuguese - Eu te amo . . . Romanian - Te iubesc  . . . Russian - Ya tebya liubliu  . . . Scot Gaelic - Tha gra\dh agam ort . . .  Serbian - Volim te  . . . Setswana - Ke a go rata  . . . Sign Language - „,/ (represents position of fingers when signing ‘I Love You’)  . . . Sindhi - Maa tokhe pyar kendo ahyan  . . . . Sioux - Techihhila  . . . Slovak - Lu`bim ta  . . . Slovenian - Ljubim te  . . . Spanish - Te quiero / Te amo  . . . Swahili - Ninapenda wewe  . . . Swedish - Jag alskar dig . . .  Swiss-German - Ich lieb Di  . . . Surinam - Mi lobi joe . . . . Tagalog - Mahal kita  . . . Taiwanese - Wa ga ei li  . . . Tahitian - Ua Here Vau Ia Oe  . . . Tamil - Nan unnai kathalikaraen  . . . Telugu - Nenu ninnu premistunnanu . . . . Thai - Phom rak khun  . . . Tunisian - Ha eh bak

 Turkish - Seni Seviyorum  . . . Ukrainian - Ya tebe kahayu  . . . Urdu - mai aap say pyaar karta hoo  . . . .Vietnamese - To female - Anh ye^u em . . .  Welsh - ‘Rwy’n dy garu di  . . . Yiddish - Ikh hob dikh  . . . Yoruba - Mo ni fe  . . . Zazi - Ezhele hezdege  . . . Zuni - Tom ho’ ichema --