Feasting on Love

 Gibran is quoted as saying, "Hate is love starved."  

Don't starve those around you.  Feed them with love and kindness and compassion.

Good Love

 Saul Bellow said:  A man (person) is only as good as what he (or she) loves.

What are you loving?  Is it worthy?  Are you better for it?  Is it (or they) better for it?

(Seize the Day, New York: Viking Press,1956)

Real men & women love

 Ken Wilber in his classic love story book, Grace and Grit, concludes that...

"Real love hurts; real love makes you totally vulnerable and open; real love will take you far behold yourself; and therefore real love will devastate you."  (page 396, 3rd Edition)

Love is Calling you Higher

 "True love demands sacrifice, because true love is a transforming force and is really the birth-pangs of union on a higher plane."

from The Recapitulation of the Lord's Prayer

Transcend Yourself through Love

 "Love is a time-honored way to transcend the separate-self sense and leap into the sublime."

(page 23, Grace and Grit, Ken Wilber, Third Edition, Shambhala Publications, 2020)

Have you leaped yet?  Transcend yourself...

What is love actualizing in you?

 "If there is a secret to love's transforming power, surely it must lie in its uncanny ability to call forth who we truly are.  "Love always seeks the ultimately real," says Bruteau; it has an infallible knack for pushing through dim outer shells and inner dark places and bringing the essence of who we are into the light.  Love always brings about an increase in being, and it does so by giving us the courage and power to live out who we truly are.  This is the simple and completely straightforward meaning of that fundamental esoteric doctrine:  love actualizes essence."

Cynthia Bourgeault writes this in her book, Love is Stronger than Death, page 115.  I think she is quoting Beatrice Bruteau.  She quotes her often, and her mystical insight gives me pause.  

May the force be with you

 "love...is the fundamental creative force in the universe."

Have you ever thought of that?  

Cynthia Bourgeault

Love is stronger than death

Monkfish Book Publishing

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