Love Wishes and Status Messages - Page 104

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

The sage said, The best thing is not to hate anyone, only to love. That is the only way out of it. As soon as you have forgiven those whom you hate, you have gotten rid of them. Then you have no reason to hate them; you just forget.

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia -- to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

If I am not worth the wooing, I am surely not worth the winning.

To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him.

Who has not found the heaven below
Will fail of it above.
God''s residence is next to min,
His furniture is love.

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are.

You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.

Love is only half the illusion; the lover, but not his love, is deceived.

...love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.
b. 1917 Chinese writer and physician

Love does not die easily. It is a living thing. It thrives in the face of all of life''s hazards, save one -- neglect.

Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.

We need not think alike to love alike.

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering.

Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.

Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries or with those who have been appointed or elected to do a particular job. It lies with each of us individually. Peace, for example, starts within each one of us. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us.

If I know what love is, it is because of you.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Infantile love follows the principle: I love because I am loved.
Mature love follows the principle: I am loved because I love.
Immature love says: I love you because I need you.
Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.

Love—is anterior to Life—
Posterior—to Death—
Initial of Creation, and
The Exponent of Earth—

On reflection, one of the things I needed to learn was to allow myself to be loved.

Love is the strange bewilderment which overtakes one person on account of another person.

Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.

I think we dream so we don''t have to be apart so long. If we''re in each others dreams, we can be together all the time.

Free love? As if love is anything but free! Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love.
Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love.
Man has conquered whole nations, but all his armies could not conquer love. Thus love has the magic power to make of a beggar a king.
Yes, love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere.

Your body needs to be held and to hold, to be touched and to touch. None of these needs is to be despised, denied, or repressed. But you have to keep searching for your body''s deeper need, the need for genuine love. Every time you are able to go beyond the body''s superficial desires for love, you are bringing your body home and moving toward integration and unity.