What is the concept of perfect love?

While we rarely live so as to understand it, love that passeth understanding is not so difficult to attain—it is within your reach and is the truest foretaste when possessed of the life hereafter. 

You must endeavour to obtain this blessing for yourself and set diligently to work and ascertain what it is that you are lacking?—what it is that hinders you from possessing this pearl of great price? 

If your temper is bad you must conquer it. 

If envious and unjust thoughts rankle in your bosom against neighbour—or friend, you must expel them. 

If sloth—or negligence interfere with your own progression—or the happiness of others, you must strive against and subdue them. 

If licentious—or debasing pleasures entice you, you must flee the tempters. 

I might go on to enumerate every sin—or vice that can lead you astray, for all are enemies to this true love that should reign in your bosom and all must be overcome. 

None are so perfect but that on rigid self-examination, each one must perform his quota. 

Therefore, set yoursef to the task and banish every feeling and thought from your mind that is not in harmony with the perfect law of love—that law, which rules the heavens in their beautiful harmony and which the angels are so truly and constantly trying to implant in your heart. 

Show by your life and conversations how much you have altered for the better—let kindness and love—active and untiring—rule your actions.