  ? A soul mate is someone to whom we feel profoundly connected,  as though the communication and communing that take place between us were not the product of intentional efforts,  but rather a divine grace.  This kind of relationship is so important to the soul that many have said there is nothing more precious in life.  Saying I Love You in 100 languages:
 English -  I love you Afrikaans -  Ek het jou lief Albanian -  Te dua Arabic -  Ana behibak ( to male)
 Arabic -  Ana behibek ( to female)  Armenian -  Yes kez sirumen Bambara -  M'bi fe Bangla -
 Aamee tuma ke bhalo aashi Belarusian -  Ya tabe kahayu Bisaya -  Nahigugma ako kanimo Bulgarian -  Obicham te Cambodian -  Soro lahn nhee ah Cantonese Chinese -  Ngo oiy ney a Catalan -
 T'estimo Cheyenne -  Ne mohotatse Chichewa -  Ndimakukonda Corsican -  Ti tengu caru ( to male)  Creol -
 Mi aime jou Croatian -  Volim te Czech -  Miluji te Danish -  Jeg Elsker Dig Dutch -  Ik hou van jou Esperanto -  Mi amas vin Estonian -
 Ma armastan sind Ethiopian -  Afgreki' Faroese -  Eg elski teg Farsi -  Doset daram Filipino -  Mahal kita Finnish -  Mina rakastan sinua French -
 Je t'aime,  Je t'adore Gaelic -  Ta gra agam ort Georgian -  Mikvarhar German -  Ich liebe dich Greek -  S'agapo Gujarati -
 Hoo thunay prem karoo choo Hiligaynon -  Palangga ko ikaw Hawaiian -  Aloha wau ia oi Hebrew -  Ani ohev otah ( to female)  Hebrew -
 Ani ohev et otha ( to male)  Hiligaynon -  Guina higugma ko ikaw Hindi -  Hum Tumhe Pyar Karte hae Hmong -  Kuv hlub koj Hopi -
 Nu' umi unangwa'ta Hungarian -  Szeretlek Icelandic -  Eg elska tig Ilonggo -  Palangga ko ikaw Indonesian -  Saya cinta padamu Inuit -  Negligevapse Irish -
 Taim i' ngra leat Italian -  Ti amo Japanese -  Aishiteru Kannada -  Naanu ninna preetisuttene Kapampangan -  Kaluguran daka Kiswahili -  Nakupenda Konkani -
 Tu magel moga cho Korean -  Sarang Heyo Latin -  Te amo Latvian -  Es tevi miilu Lebanese -  Bahibak Lithuanian -  Tave myliu Malay -
 Saya cintakan mu /  Aku cinta padamu Malayalam -  Njan Ninne Premikunnu Mandarin Chinese -  Wo ai ni Marathi -  Me tula prem karto Mohawk -  Kanbhik Moroccan -
 Ana moajaba bik Nahuatl -  Ni mits neki Navaho -  Ayor anosh'ni Norwegian -  Jeg Elsker Deg Pandacan -  Syota na kita!  Pangasinan -
 Inaru Taka Papiamento -  Mi ta stimabo Persian -  Doo- set daaram Pig Latin -  Iay ovlay ouyay Polish -  Kocham Ciebie Portuguese -
 Eu te amo Romanian -  Te iubesc Russian -  Ya tebya liubliu Scot Gaelic -  Tha gra'dh agam ort Serbian -  Volim te Setswana -  Ke a go rata Sign Language -
 ,  ( represents position of fingers when signing'I Love You')  Sindhi -  Maa tokhe pyar kendo ahyan Sioux -  Techihhila Slovak -
 Lu` bim ta Slovenian -  Ljubim te Spanish -  Te quiero /  Te amo Swahili -  Ninapenda wewe Swedish -
 Jag alskar dig Swiss- German -  Ich lieb Di Tagalog -  Mahal kita Taiwanese -  Wa ga ei li Tahitian -  Ua Here Vau Ia Oe Tamil -
 Nan unnai kathalikaraen Telugu -  Nenu ninnu premistunnanu Thai -  Chan rak khun ( to male)  Thai -  Phom rak khun (
to female)  Turkish -  Seni Seviyorum Ukrainian -  Ya tebe kahayu Urdu -  mai aap say pyaar karta hoo Vietnamese -  Anh ye^
u em ( to female)  Vietnamese -  Em ye^ u anh ( to male)
 Welsh -  'Rwy'n dy garu Yiddish -  Ikh hob dikh Yoruba -  Mo ni fe Listening for Love By Jayne Fisher There are times when we are timid and shy about expressing the love we feel.  For fear of embarrassing the other person,  or ourselves,
 we hesitate to say the actual words " I love you"  So we try to communicate the idea in other words.  We say " take care"  or "
don't drive too fast"  or " be good"  But really,  these are just other ways of saying " I love you"
 " You are important to me"  " I care what happens to you"  and don't want you to get hurt"  all mean "
I love you"  We are sometimes very strange people.  The only thing we want to say,  and the one thing that we should say,  is the one thing we don? t say.
 And yet because the feeling is so real,  and the need to say it is so strong,  we are driven to use other words and signs to say what we really mean.  And many times the meaning never gets communicated at all and the other person is left feeling unloved and unwanted.  Therefore,  I believe we have to listen for love in the words that people are saying to us.
 Sometimes the explicit words are necessary,  but more often,  the manner of saying things is even more important.  A joyous insult carries more affection and love within the sentiments,  which are expressed insincerely.  An impulsive hug says "
I love you"  even though the words might be saying something very different.  Any expression of a person? s concern for another says " I love you"  Sometimes the expression is clumsy,
 sometimes even cruel.  Sometimes we must look and listen very intently for the love that it contains.  We say " I love you"  in many ways -  with birthday gifts,
 and little notes,  with smiles and sometimes with tears.  Sometimes we show our love by just keeping quiet and not saying a word,  at other times by speaking out,  even harshly.  We show our love sometimes by impulsiveness.
 Many times we have to show our love by forgiving someone who has not listened to the love we have tried to express.  The problem is listening for love is that we don't always understand the language of love,  which the other person is using.  A girl may use tears or emotions to say what she wants to say,  and her boyfriend may not understand her because he expects her to be talking his language.  We have to force ourselves to really listen for love.
 The problem with our world is that people rarely listen to each other.  They hear the words,  but they don't listen to the actions that accompany the words or the expression on the face.  Or people listen only for rejection or misunderstanding.  They do not see the love that is there just beneath the surface,  even if the words are angry.
 Simon and Garfunkel wrote that very haunting song,  The Sound of Silence .  It goes:  Ten thousand people,  maybe more.  People talking without speaking;
 people hearing without listening;  people writing songs that voices never shared,  because no one dared disturb the sound of silence.  It is a terrifying picture of our modern world,  a world without communication and without love.  We have to listen for love in those around us.
 If we listen intently we will discover that we are a lot more loved than we realise.  Just listen!
