e x p r e s s i o n s o f l o v e
Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
You never have to be lonely. There's always somebody to love, even if it's just a squirrel or a kitten.
― a child
To love is to recognize yourself in another..
― Eckhart Tolle
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
― Rabindranath Tagore
Love is when mommy sees daddy on the toilet and she doesn't think it's gross.
― a child
...Plato defines Love as the hunger of the human soul for divine Beauty, and he explains Beauty as Wisdom, as Virtue, as Honour and Courage, as Justice and Faith, and above all, as Truth that leads us directly to God.
― Swami Omkarananda
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
― Christ Jesus
I think God might be a little
prejudiced.
For once He asked me to join Him on a walk
through this world,
and we gazed into every heart on this earth,
and I noticed He lingered a bit longer
before any face that was
weeping,
and before any eyes that were
laughing.
And sometimes when we passed
a soul in worship
God too would kneel
down.
I have come to learn:
God adores His creation.
― St. Frances of Assisi
If you don't love yourself, you cannot love others. You will not be able to love others. If you have no compassion for yourself then you are not able of developing compassion for others.
― Dalai Lama
Love gives beauty to everything it touches. Not greed and utility; they produce offices, but not dwelling houses. To be able to love material things, to clothe them with tender grace, and yet not be attached to them, this is a great service. Providence expects that we should make this world our own, and not live in it as though it were a rented tenement. We can only make it our own through some service, and that service is to lend it love and beauty from our soul. Your own experience shows you the difference between the beautiful, the tender, the hospitable, and the mechanically neat and monotonously useful.
― Rabindranath
Tagore
In love, nothing exists between
heart and heart.
Speech is born out of longing,
True description from the real taste.
The one who tastes, knows;
the one who explains, lies.
How can you describe the true form of Something
In whose presence you are blotted out?
And in whose being you still exist?
And who lives as a sign for your journey?
― Rabi'a al-'Adawiyya
The bhakti path winds in a
delicate way.
On this path there is no asking and no not asking.
The ego simply disappears the moment you touch him.
The joy of looking for him is so immense that you just dive in,
and coast around like a fish in the water.
If anyone needs a head, the lover leaps up to offer his.
― Kabir
...Love gives naught but itself and takes
naught but from itself.
Love possesses not nor would it be possessed;
For love is sufficient unto love.
When you love you should not say,
'God is in my heart,' but rather,
'I am in the heart of God.'
And think not you can direct the course of love,
for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course...
― Khalil Gibran
Yielding to a love
That knows no limit,
I shall go to him by night ―
For the world does not yet censure
Those who tread the paths of dreams.
― Ono no Komachi
Our nature is obscured by work done by the compulsion of want or fear. The mother reveals herself in the service of her children, so our true freedom is not the freedom from action but freedom in action, which can only be attained in the work of love.
― Rabindranath
Tagore
What is the opposite of fear?
Perhaps it is love, my dear; perhaps it is love.
Divine love, true love, perfected love.
Simply love, my dear.
Simply love.
― Eppi
O mother I burned in a
flameless fire
O mother I suffered a bloodless wound
O Mother I tossed
without a pleasure:
loving my lord white as jasmine
I wandered through unlikely worlds.
― Mahadeviyakka
I love you
when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church.
For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
― Khalil
Gibran
A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest ⁸ a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
― Albert Einstein
...Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres...
― 1
Corinthians 13
Thou hast made me endless, such is thy
pleasure.
This frail vessel thou emptiest again and again, and fillest it ever
with fresh life.
This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and
hast breathed through it melodies eternally new.
At the immortal touch of thy hands my little heart loses its limits in
joy and gives birth to utterance ineffable.
Thy infinite gifts come to me only on these very small hands of mine.
Ages pass, and still thou pourest, and still there is room to fill.
― Rabindranath Tagore
Love knows no limit to its endurance no end to its trust, Love still stands when all else has fallen.
― 1 Corinthians 13:7-8
Like polish melting into gold
my heart has melted into you; like a lotus ascending from water my life
emerges from you;
like a night bird watching the passing moon I lose myself, gazing at
you.
― Mirabai
All love is expansion, all
selfishness is contraction.
Love is therefore the only law of life.
He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying.
Therefore love for love's sake,
because it is law of life, just as you breathe to live.
― Swami Vivekananda
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