Do we comprehend the power of living with understanding. This is a good start yet it still falls short of true incorporation of the full meaning of the term. I deliberately did not include understanding as I felt that it fell under the category of empathy. Upon further reflection however I have decided that this is not so and the term must be included as it's own component. Although it must be agreed that empathy does contain understanding it is also possible to have understanding without empathy, at first.
Understanding is the primary component of love.
By primary I do not mean the most important as none of the concepts can be taken hierarchically but must be seen as parts of a greater whole, one no more important than another. Primary here therefore means first. We often come to the realisation, particularly when actively engaged in spiritual unfoldment, that the only way for the world to change for the better is through love. Yet even though we know this, it is not easy, if possible at all, to move from a state of pre-spiritual reality to one of love, immediately. We tell ourselves that this is the way, the only way for the planet to heal and we actively engage in re-programming our past way of seeing the world to incorporate our new knowledge.