To respect is to value what you see To value its existence, to value its life, to value its reason for existence.

To respect is to respect the rights, responsibilities and values of others. To respect their health, to respect their minds, to respect their bodies.

To respect is to be clear in the mind of all things past and all things future. The things that have passed that we continue to recall. The things of the future not yet promised. To be in the present. To be in the now moment, clear of any mental distraction is to be in a state of respect.

Respect is VIR. VIR is respect. The first of the VIRs.

Here are fruits, flowers, leaves and branches, And here is my heart which beats only for you.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breath and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.

I have loved many, the more and the few - I have loved many that I might love you.

I shall go the way of the open sea, To the lands I knew before you came, And the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me The memory of your name.

I want to die while you love me, While yet you hold me fair, While laughter lies upon my lips, And lights are in my hair.