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"Our heart's primary task, of course, is to recognize our own spirit in every stranger and to 'love our neighbor as ourselves.'"
Invisible Acts of Power: Personal Choices That Create Miracles
(Caroline Myss)
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"Accept the mystery of being loved by the Divine Magnet."
Spiritual Literacy, Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life
(Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat)
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"Love is the result of an identification – the identifying of our wills with the will of God, and our fate with that of all men, however obscure, fallen and needy." Rose Terlin, contemporary American editor and writer, 'Christian Faith and Social Action'
The Choice Is Always Ours
(Dorothy B. Phillips, Chief Editor)
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"It is the heart force that brings all life, that creates all life, that moves through us. It is never too late to touch this fountain. So take time to listen, to allow that wellspring to be known in your own life." Jack Kornfield, Buddhist teacher, 'The Wellspring of the Heart'
Handbook for the Heart, Original Writings on Love
(Richard Carlson and Benjamin Shield, editors)
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"It is our bounden duty to cultivate in our hearts the spirit of brotherly love towards all, however much they may differ from us in philosophical and religious or scientific opinions."
Wind of the Spirit
(G. dePurucker)
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"Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds." Goethe
One Thousand Inspirational Things
(Audrey Stone Morris, Compiler)
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"The will of God is manifest in each moment, an immense ocean which the heart only fathoms in so far as it overflows with faith, trust and love." Jean Pierre deCaussade
The Mystic Hours, A Daybook of Interspiritual Wisdom & Devotion
(Wayne Teasdale)
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"Remember love is everpresent, here, now and always. Identify with love, and you are safe. Identify with love, and you are home. Identify with love, and find your Self."
Shadows of the Sacred: Seeing Through Spiritual Illusions
(Frances Vaughan, Ph.D.)
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"We do indeed become the thing we love."
My Way of Life, The Summa Simplified for Everyone
(Walter Farrell and Martin J. Healy)
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"The absolute good is, as in the 'Divine Comedy', the final cause or ultimate end of the motions of the universe. It is 'the Alpha and Omega', Dante says, 'of every scripture that Love reads to me.'"
The Great Ideas, A Syntopicon, vol. 1
(Mortimer J. Adler, editor)
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"The consciousness of the Divine is at the center of all human activity. Thus, at the heart of all loves is the love of God." Eliezer Shore, 'The Heart of Ritual'
Parabola, the Magazine of Myth and Tradition
(various)
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"This mysterious quality of love is all around us, as real as gravity." Jack Kornfield, Buddhist teacher, 'The Wellspring of the Heart'
Handbook for the Heart, Original Writings on Love
(Richard Carlson and Benjamin Shield, editors)
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"For that is spirituality – thinking, feeling, and acting in love, and singing praises to our Divine Lover." Frances Young, contemporary British theologian
The Lion Christian Quotation Collection
(Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild, compilers)
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"It is the nature of love to change us into the likeness of that which we contemplate." A. E. (George W. Russell),
Basic Theosophy
(Geoffrey Hodson)
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"Released by Love from isolating wrong, let us with Love unite our various song, each with his gift according to his kind." W. H. Auden, Anglo-American poet and essayist
The Lion Christian Quotation Collection
(Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild, compilers)
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"Today, we have a world which is steadily coming to the realisation that 'no man lives unto himself', and that only as the love, about which so much has been written and spoken, finds its outlet in service, can man begin to measure up to his innate capacity."
Esoteric Psychology II
(Alice A. Bailey)
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"Pure love is an attribute of the soul and is all-inclusive, and it is in pure love that our relation to God and to each other consists…Sentiment is emotional and unstable; devotion can be fanatical and cruel; but love blends and fuses, understands and interprets and synthesises all form and all expressions, all causes and all races, into one flaming heart of love, knowing no separateness, no division and no disharmony."
From Bethlehem to Calvary
(Alice A. Bailey)
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"The more the soul loves, the more it desires to love." St. Columban, abbot, 'De Christo fonte vitae'
Christian Prayer: The Liturgy of the Hours
(various)
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"Obedience to God means a willingness to follow the dictates of love; thoughts and behavior prescribed for us by a force that wants only our happiness and good."
The Gift of Change, Spiritual Guidance for a Radically New Life
(Marianne Williamson)
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"Without love, good doctrinal theology degenerates into anger between those who differ in their beliefs."
End-Time Prophecies of the Bible
(David Haggith)
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"Love, the motive power of all that lives and breathes, must be the guiding star of every disciple who has entered and is making progress upon the Path. It is not only his safety valve at every step of the way, but serves also to fathom the depths of the water surrounding him during his voyage."
Encyclopedia of Ancient and Forbidden Knowledge
(Zolar)
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"There is a place in a human being's most inward depths; from this place proceeds the life of love."
Works of Love
(Soren Kierkegaard)
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"Love, being omnipresent, is the common denominator of all of life. As we express love we immediately find that we have something very definite in common with every part of life."
Drawing the Larger Circle, How to Love and Be Loved
(Jack and Cornelia Addington)
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"Love is the most comprehensive and the highest of all the divine blessings spoken of in the Holy Scriptures." St. Theodoros the Great Ascetic, 'A Century of Spiritual Texts'
The Philokalia, volume 2
(various authors, compiled by St. Nikodimos of the Holy Mountain)
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"One cannot become worthy of love. Love by its very nature is a free gift and grace."
Companions on the Inner Way
(Morton T. Kelsey)
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