LOVE
["God" is the feeling of love. In Ancient times they did not use a word for God, and taught that God was the feeling of Love. For our purposes God is that feeling. Our closest God is known as "Creator" for obvious reasons, amongst the numerous beings who have that ability, as distinct from "Prime Creator".]
Quotes
"WHEN YOUR HEART IS ALIVE, you are always beautiful. Always. Even in the
morning."--Don Bradley
"The person one loves never really exists, but is a projection focused through the lens of the mind onto whatever screen it fits with least distortion."--Arthur C. Clarke Tales of Ten Worlds
Scott Peck M.D His perspective on love (in
The Road Less Travelled) is that love is not a feeling, it is an
activity and an investment. He defines love as, "The will to
extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual
growth." Love is primarily actions towards nurturing the spiritual growth of
another. Love cannot be sustained by mutual dependence; rather, love between two
parties is made stronger when they are completely independent of one another.
Peck seeks to differentiate between
love and cathexis. Cathexis is what explains attractions to the opposite sex,
the instinct for cuddling pets and pinching babies' cheeks. However, cathexis is
not love. All the same, true love cannot begin in isolation, a certain amount of
cathexis is necessary to get sufficiently close to be able to truly love.
Once through the cathexis stage,
the work of love begins. It is not a feeling. It consists of what you do for
another person. As Peck says in The Road Less Traveled, "Love is as love
does." It is about giving the other person what they need to grow. It is about
truly knowing and understanding them.--Wiki
Life in abundance comes only through great love. ---Elbert Hubbard
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage. ---Lao Tzu
"The most fundamental principle of medicine is love."--Paracelsus (1493-1541) The Great Art of Surgery
There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the
spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer
to each is the same. Only love.
Don
Juan DeMarco
LOVE
There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer;
No disease that enough love will not heal;
No door that enough love will not open;
No gulf that enough love will not bridge;
No wall that enough love will not throw down;
No sin that enough love will not redeem...
It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble;
How hopeless the outlook;
How muddled the tangle;
How great the mistake;
A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all...
If only you could love enough you would be the happiest and most powerful being
in the world. ----- Emmet Fox
Jewels for the Soul , by Kathryn M. Peters:
The Power of Peace
When I sustain only thoughts of love, I open myself to the
experience of peace beyond measure. My day may be decorated in an
eclectic showcase of people and circumstances that either help to
focus or distract me. Yet, my daily mission is to bring the peace
and compassion of Spirit into every situation I encounter.
I do know this: If you think it is God that kills people and destroys your relationships or punishes you and you blame "Him," you will find yourself in more trouble and your life will not work like it should. That concept does not work. It also doesn't work to think you can "leave God and forget about the whole thing." One day you will be forced to clear up your mind. One day you will be forced to see that you create your own universe with your mind, and even your own death by programming the whole thing. One day you will see that you have been given total free will and that God is the Great Affirmative that always says, "Yes," to your thoughts. When I began to understand this, my relationships started working, and not before. ---- Sondra Ray (Loving Relationships).
Love brings up anything unlike itself.---- Sondra Ray (Loving Relationships).
Love always heals...if you let it.---- Sondra Ray (Loving Relationships).
“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.”
Let your teacher be LOVE itself.--Rumi
“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.” Rumi