Sunday Reflections — Love, the affirmation of life
An earlier edition of Sunday Reflections brought you The essence of love. This week’s collection, expands on this theme:
“Life is our greatest possession and love its greatest affirmation.” ~ Leo Buscaglia
“There is nothing to learn about love. Everything is already there, in our genes, in our nature. We don’t have to learn anything except what we invent in this world of illusion. We search for love outside ourselves when love is all around us. Love is everywhere, but we don’t have the eyes to see…Your heart can create any amount of love, not just for yourself, but for the whole world. When we know that our heart is a magical kitchen, we are always generous and our love is completely unconditional.” ~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
“Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery. Love, and don’t be caught in opinions and ideas about what love is or should be. When you love, everything will come right. Love has its own action. Love, and you will know the blessings of it. Keep away from the authority who tells you what love is and what it is not. No authority knows and he who knows cannot tell. Love, and there is understanding.” ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
“At the deepest level, an ‘open heart’ is spacious presence, in which the sense of separateness between yourself and the ‘other’ dissolves and there is the recognition of oneness, of shared consciousness. That recognition is love. Sensing the formless essence in another and recognizing it as one with your own essence — that’s what love is…” ~ Eckhart Tolle
“Love is the bridge between you and everything.” ~ Rumi
“And the world we live in will be either better or worse, depending on whether we become better or worse. And that’s where the power of love comes in. Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are.” ~ Paulo Coehlo
“Love is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.” ~ Plato
“We, unaccustomed to courage
exiles from delight
live coiled in shells of loneliness
until love leaves its high holy temple
and comes into our sight
to liberate us into life.
Love arrives
and in its train come ecstasies
old memories of pleasure
ancient histories of pain.
Yet if we are bold,
love strikes away the chains of fear
from our souls.
We are weaned from our timidity
In the flush of love’s light
we dare be brave
And suddenly we see
that love costs all we are
and will ever be.
Yet it is only love
which sets us free.”
~ Maya Angelou
“Love is the energizing elixir of the Universe, the cause and effect of all Harmony.” ~ Rumi
This selection is from publications/websites in the public domain.
