Love

“Love, and do what you will.”

My humanity is bound up in yours – for we can only be human together

“The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me,

apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love.”

“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope

“People will forget what you said, what you did, but never forget how you made them feel”

All joy in this world comes from wanting others to be happy, and all suffering in this world comes from wanting only oneself to be happy.

There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving—by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done

“One can’t love humanity, one can only love people.”

“This supreme Lord who pervades all existence, the true Self of all creatures, may be realized through undivided love.”

“We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.”

What brings understanding is love. When your heart is full, then you will listen to the teacher, to the beggar, to the laughter of children, to the rainbow, and to the sorrow of man. Under every stone and leaf, that which is eternal exists

“The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.”As Marx said:

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.” 

Each person must never be treated only as a means to some other end, but must also be treated as an end themselves.”

“vain was the word of the philosopher that does not heal the suffering of man”.

“We draw the circle of family too narrow. Expanding our circle of love as we expand our awareness is key to living a meaningful life.”

“The day will come when, after harnessing the ether, the winds, the tides, gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of Love. And, on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.”

“Love is the most powerful force in the universe. It is the eternal fire that burns within the heart and connects us all.”

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

The power of love, as the basis of state, has never been tried.

In the end, only three things matter: how much you Loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.

What is the most important thing in the world? It is the people, it is the people, it is the people.

Love is the only energy that transcends the inertia of nature and takes one to the shores of ultimate awareness

Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbour; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.

I see real love as the most fundamental of our innate capacities, never destroyed no matter what we might have gone through or might yet go through. It may be buried, obscured from view, hard to find, and hard to trust . . . but it is there.

What brings understanding is love. When your heart is full, then you will listen to the teacher, to the beggar, to the laughter of children, to the rainbow, and to the sorrow of man. Under every stone and leaf, that which is eternal exists.

From my own limited experience I have found that the greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from the development of love and compassion. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater our own sense of well-being becomes.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty.

The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone.

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the
energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered
fire.

Only eyes filled with love can see God.

Let there be love with every breath

“In as much as our God is one God and the Creator of all mankind, He provides for and protects all. We acknowledge Him as a God of kindness, justice and mercy. Why then should we, His children and followers, war and fight, bringing sorrow and grief into the hearts of each other? God is loving and merciful. His intention in religion has ever been the bond of unity and affinity between human kind.”

“In brotherly love there is the experience of union with all men, of human solidarity, of human at-onement. Brotherly love is based on the experience that we are all one. The differences in talents, intelligence, knowledge are negligible in comparison with the identity of the human core common to all men.”

“Our true relationships in life are never to the material side of things. Reflect for a moment and you will recognize that you love your child or your garden or a poem because you have worked your way through its exteriority to an interior relationship with it.”

“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.”

“[L]ove [is] the Divine energy. This primal love is Gift-love. In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give.”

A creed that tells us that we are no more than selfish genes, with nothing in principle to separate us from the animals, in a society whose strongest motivators are money and success, in a universe that came into existence for no reason whatsoever and for no reason will one day cease to be, will never speak as strongly to the human spirit as one that tells us we are in the image and likeness of God in a universe he created in love.

In the end, only three things matter: how much you Loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.

“What is the most important thing in the world? It is the people, it is the people, it is the people.”

Intimate, loving, and enduring relationships with our family and close friends will be among the sources of the deepest joy in our lives.