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Augustine’s Love Throughout Confessions, Saint Augustine gains, embraces, metamorphs’, grasps, utilizes and wallows in his painstaking existence as he searches out a love. His heart, his mind and his body, are consistently and forever seeking a sense of satisfaction. It seems as though Augustine was instilled with the desire to love and to be loved; without both he would be left with an empty soul and forever remain unhappy. Augustine spent much of his time loving; loving in secret and in quite conflicting manners. Charles had many loves in his life including: his mother Monica, his mistresses, evil, wisdom, church, Catholicism, Christ Jesus and God. With so many loves, what can be said about what Augustine’s true passion and desire for love, and to be loved? Augustine goes about his life with ever changing and conflicting views, however, in the end, all he is searching for is a true love that will never die and will forever be. Augustine’s first ever love was the love he had for his mother Monica. Without Monica’s undying support he may have remained without any faith in God for the entirety of his life. She had forever supported Augustine since the beginning and was quite disappointed in his demise and sepa