Love Our relationships are the most beautiful and fulfilling aspect of our lives. Love is more than just mere attachment. Love binds the souls of different people together. Love is caring for another soul how we wish to be cared for. Love is also the understanding of and compassion for our adversaries. In everything you do, feel love. If love isnt present, do not. The chemist who can extract from his hearts elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create the atom which is called love. - Kahlil Gibran You have heard that it was said; Love your neighbor and hate your enemy. But I tell you love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you...(Matt. 5:43-48(NIV)) Hatreds do not cease in this world by hating, but by love, overcoming evil by good. Overcome the miser by giving, overcome the liar by truth. (Dhammapadma 1.5 and 17.3) Forgiveness is letting go. It can be very therapeutic because it allows a great weight to be lifted off your shoulders. I forgive all who have wronged me, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because I want to let go of the pain. So if any of you have been hurt, go ahead and let the pain go. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. - Lao Tzu A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and a man cannot live without love. - Max Muller “Through my love for you, I want to express my love for the whole cosmos, the whole of humanity, and all beings. By living with you, I want to learn to love everyone and all species. If I succeed in loving you, I will be able to love everyone and all species on Earth... This is the real message of love.” - Thích Nhat Hanh, Teachings on Love Ask yourself, are your relationships what you want and need? If the answer is yes, they are worth working on. However, forgiveness is important, whether you stay with someone and work on the relationship or part ways. Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible- it can not be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could. - Barbara de Angelis “You dont make me feel like you used to. Thats why Im leaving. Thats why people leave each other. They come to their senses and get selfish again.” - Henry Rollins “I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.” - Martin Luther King, Jr. “A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, 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 to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” - Albert Einstein Have you ever witnessed someone become sick from sadness or loss? Not just depressed but physically ill? I have, and love heals emotional pain. Imagine a feeling of love and happiness so strong that everything and everyone you come into contact with is healed. It may be hard to fathom at this point, but love absolutely heals. Every journey begins with the first step, as your focus and ability begins with planting the seed. With the proper cultivation, your tree can be a magnificent presence in the lives of many. “They say that a part of you dies when a special loved one passes away...I disagree...I say a part of you lives with your loved one on the other side.” - Daniel Yanez “When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.” - Mahatma Gandhi “Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.” - Oscar Wilde “Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who let’s you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.” - Jim Morrison “A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. - Thomas Carlyle “We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.” - Friedrich Nietzsche “Where there is love there is life.” - Mahatma Gandhi “… we shall abide pervading the all-encompassing world with a mind imbued with loving-kindness, abundant, exalted, immeasurable, without hostility, and without ill will.” (In The Words of Buddha, Bhikkhu Bodhi (from Kakacupana Sutta)) “Love is the supreme opportunity to fulfill our life’s purpose of transformation - yet the experience of true love on earth also means that to a certain extent our purpose has already been fulfilled…” (Rav P.S. Berg, The Essential Zohar) “The sun loved the moon so much he died every night just to let her breathe.” - Unknown “Never love anyone who treats you like your ordinary.” - Oscar Wilde “Love conquers all.” - Virgil “The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.” - Thich Nhat Hanh “Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.” - Dalai Lama XIV “Love is that condition in the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” - Robert A. Heinlein “Where there is great love, there are always miracles.” - Willa Cather “Paradise is always where love dwells.” - Jean Paul Richter “Love is to love someone for who they are, who they were, and who they will be.” - Chris Moore “True love is born from understanding.” - Buddha “Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.” - David Byrne “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that’s what you’ve given me. That’s what I’d hoped to give you forever.” - Nicholas Sparks “Pure love is a willingness to give without the thought of receiving anything in return.” - Peace Pilgrim “If there’s a thing I learned in my life it’s to not be afraid of the responsibility that comes with taking care of other people. What we do for love: those things endure. Even if the people you do them for don’t.” - Cassandra Clare “Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.” - Jonathan Edwards “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” - Buddha Love is light. Light is an aspect of life, creation, and that which is good. The darkness is void and lacking light. Complete darkness, is the absence of light, life, and love. That’s why children are scared of the dark, and a bright sunny day can bring a feeling of joy. Hold the light within you and let it emanate from your soul. If there was one word that could answer the question, “what is the meaning of life?” That word would be love. Love is the essence and fabric of our lives. There is nothing more important than love.
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