From the Detailed Rules for Monks by Saint Basil the Great, bishop, comes the following thought:
As soon as the living creature (that is, man) comes to be, a power of reason is implanted in us like a seed, containing within it the ability and the need to love.
I firmly believe this to be true. All humans are gifted with the ability to love. How we use the gift is left to us as a matter of free choice. What we not given is knowledge of how to be able to love. While God inspires our desire to love we are left to teach other how to love and because we are imperfect humans what we teach is not imperfect. All we can do is grow in love and in our understanding of the examples we see of perfect love that was made perfect because it is absolutely selfless.
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