"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end." Benjamin Disraeli.
Why do most people, both affluent and otherwise, feel unhappy and unfulfilled? Because 99% of everything they say or do is for themselves..... and there isn't one!! We are One. The True meaning of Life is to be found only in the service to others. The 'unlikeable' the 'undeserving' the'unappreciative' the 'degenerate', etc, etc. It is a shallow love to do things for 'your own', for recogntion and for people who appreciate what you do. Most people do not have a true understanding of what Love is, it is giving not getting..... with absolutely no expectation of anything whatsoever, in return. If you can understand this, and get a grip on it, and practice it, then, and only then, will you experience Love, your True being and the purpose of your Life. Looking for Love?.....then give.....it's right in the palm of your hand!
There is nothing that won't reveal its secrets to you, if you Love enough. This includes God.
When we speak truly, -- is not he only unhappy who is not in love? his fancied freedom and self-rule -- is it not so much death? He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses. Therefore if the object be not itself a living and expanding soul, he presently exhausts it. But the love remains in his mind, and the wisdom it brought him; and it craves a new and higher object. And the reason why all men honor love, is because it looks up and not down; aspires and not despairs.
How insufficient is all wisdom without love! There may be courtesy,
there may be good-will, there may be even temper, there may be wit, and
talent, and sparkling conversation,....and yet the soul pine for life.
Just so sacred and rich as my life is to myself will it be to another.
Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.
Our life without love is like coke and ashes.
Force may subdue, but Love gains: And he that forgives first, wins the Laurel.
The great and solitary heart will love alone, without the knowledge of its object.
The love is faint-hearted and short-lived that is contented with the past history of its object. It does not prepare the soil to bear new crops lustier than the old.
This is the true measure of love: when we believe that we alone can love, that no-one could ever have loved so before us, and that no-one will ever love in the same way after us.
When you think, you are thought, when you love, you are love, the two basic principles of your being are then active.
I believe that one of the most misused words today is 'Love.' Love is not love if it is not accompanied by passion: By passion, I do not mean in the usual sensual sense, what is required to love is a great and all-consuming 'intensity'. Without this sense of intensity, to me it just isn't love. Now.....I would ask you, when you say you 'love' anything, is it accompanied by the passion of a great and all-consuming ' Intensity '?
Love in its essence is spiritual fire. When you experience love, you experience God, for that's what God is.
Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
The first love is love for oneself. Mention of this may occasion some surprise, as love directed toward oneself is generally considered to be synonymous with egotism or narcissim. This kind of self-love does of course exist, but it is not the only kind: here, as always, the great complexity and multiplicity of the human being must be taken into account. In the case of self-love, all depends on what we love in ourselves and how we love it. It is truly egotism if we love the egocentric and separative aspects in us, the craving of pleasure, possessions, and domination. But if we love what is higher and best in ourselves, what we are essentially, if we love our potentialities for growth, developement, creative ability, and communion with others, then this love, devoid of egotism, urges us to live a life of higher quality. This love is then not only not an obstacle to loving others in the same way but, rather, a powerful way of doing so. (Excerpt from "THE ACT OF WILL" by Roberto Assagioli. M.D.)
He who is able to love himself is able to love others also; He who has learned to overcome self-contempt has overcome his contempt for others. The depth of our separation lies in the fact that we are not capable of a great and merciful divine love towards ourselves. ~ Paul Tillich
One's experience of life as either loving or fearful, mirrors the extent of his spiritual awakening. Fear and love cannot coexist. As awakening progresses, love eliminates fear.
Our intellectual and active powers increase with our affection.
Love is....... an emotional energy. Fear is........ an indicator of...... the absence of love, ..trust...and creative power.
The love of the sexes is initial, and symbolizes at a distance, the passion of the soul for that immense lake of beauty it exists to seek. Thus we are put in training for a love that knows not sex, nor partiality, but which seeks virtue and wisdom everywhere. That which is so beautiful and attractive as these relations are, must be succeeded and supplanted only by what is more beautiful,, and so on forever.
Love itself at first obeys the law of hunger and enjoys the receiving and the exacting from others rather than the giving and surrendering to others which it admits chiefly as a necessary price for the thing that it desires. But here it has not yet attained to its true nature; its true law is to establish an equal commerce in which the joy of giving is equal to the joy of receiving and tends in the end to become even greater; but that is when it is shooting beyond itself under the pressure of the psychic flame to attain to the fulfilment of utter unity and has therefore to realise that which seemed to it not-self as an even greater and dearer self than its own individuality. In its life-origin, the law of love is the impulse to realise and fulfil oneself in others and by others, to be enriched by enriching, to possess and be possessed because without being possessed one does not possess oneself utterly. Sri Auribindo.
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