When I say I love a person, it means only one thing: that person’s happiness, that person’s welfare, means more to me than my own.
To the extend, love has very little to do with sentimental or physical attraction. “Love never fails”
If we fail in love of others we cannot say we know God, for God is love. Even to love another person completely, our consciousness has to be united, which is the very essence of the spiritual life
LOVE AND BELOVED ARE ONE.
What passes for love today is a kind of contract. “Here are my duties, here are yours. This is the boundary line. If you stay on your side, I’ll respect you, but if you cross over, you’re invading my space.” Whenever people go on their separate ways like this, there can be no love, there is scarcely a relationship. The nature of love, whether human or divine, is not to have qualifications or reservations at all.
Most of us think of love as a one-to-one relationship, which is all it can be on the physical level. But there is no limit to our capacity to love. Our need is to love completely, universally, without any reservations. In other words, to become love itself.
Love all that has been created by God both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and very ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment.
This is what unconditional love means where there is love, everything follows. To love is to know, to love is to act, all paths of self-realization are united in the way of love.
The main reason for the invisible God incarnating himself physically in the midst of human beings was to lead them who can only love physically to the healthy love of his physical appearance, and then, little by little, to spiritual love.
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