Love Does That

Love Does That 

All day long a little burro labors, sometimes 

with heavy loads on her back and sometimes just with worries 

about things that bother only 

burros. 

And worries, as we know, can be more exhausting 

than physical labor. 

Once in a while a kind monk comes 

to her stable and brings 

a pear, but more

than that, 

he looks into the burro's eyes and touches her ears 

and for a few seconds the burro is free 

and even seems to laugh, 

because love does 

that. 

Love frees.


-Meister Eckhart