Put no demands on love, and love will bring you much. Give love away, and it will be yours in greater and greater abundance.

With love, what was weak will grow strong. With love, what was impossible becomes real.

Love can find the beauty and value in even the most desperate situation. Love will bring hope where nothing else can.

Though love cannot be explained, it can never be denied. Love has its own reality that transcends the most oppressive limitations.

Love elevates what it touches to a higher dimension. When love is present, fears are calmed, wounds begin to heal, and joy is gloriously within reach.

Love, not because there is a reason, but because there is the possibility. Love, and you will know what you cannot understand.

Ralph Marston

Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love; love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.

Sai Baba

It is also good to love: because love is difficult. For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been entrusted to us, the ultimate task, the final test and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation.... Loving does not at first mean merging, surrendering, and uniting with another person (for what would a union be of two people who are unclarified, unfinished, and still incoherent?), it is a high inducement for the individual to ripen, to become something in himself, to become world, to become world in himself for the sake of another person; it is a great, demanding claim on him, something that chooses him and calls him to vast distances... Merging and surrendering and every kind of communion is not for them (who must still, for a long, long time, save and gather themselves); it is the ultimate, is perhaps that for which human lives are as yet barely large enough.

Rainer Maria Rilke

The Shape of Love

What we see is not the most important.

Could dust rise without the invisible

hand of the wind?

Could a fan turn without any current?

Could lungs breathe without breath?

Tell me

What is the shape of Love?

How much does Joy weigh

when held in the palm of your hand?

Can you catch the Spirit of Life in a jar?

All things seen depend

upon the Unseen.

All sounds depend upon Silence.

All things felt depend

upon what is not felt.

Adyashanti