“I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age, forever.
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“Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.
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“The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty — it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There’s a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God. ”
via Ram Dass
“Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.
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“Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. ”
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection… ”
“It is love alone that gives worth to all things.”
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection… ”
“We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.
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