Pity for her, and repentance at having wished for her death, and above all the very joy of forgiveness, made it so that he suddenly felt not only relief from his suffering but also an inner peace that he had never experienced before. He suddenly felt that the very thing that had once been the source of his suffering had become the source of his spiritual joy, that what had seemed insoluble when he condemned, reproached and hated, became simple and clear when he forgave and loved.

The distinguishing marks of the highest form of love are disinterestedness, tranquility and humility. Where there is disinterestedness there is neither greed for personal advantage nor fear for personal loss or punishment; where there is tranquility, there is neither craving nor aversion, but a steady will to conform to the divine Tao or Logos on every level of existence and a steady awareness of the divine Suchness and what should be one's own relations to it; and where there is humility ...

A truly Godlike love which, like the sun, shines equally upon the just and the unjust, is impossible to a mind imprisoned in private preferences and aversions.

Where love is, power cannot prevail, and where power prevails, love cannot reign.

The law of love cannot admit any exceptions and is only genuine when it is applied equally to foreigners, to all sectarians, and likewise to the enemies who hate us and wrong us.

Most of the religious and moral teachings on love, while compelled to admit the virtue of love in human life, yet allow the possibility of certain situations whereby the fulfillment of the law of love ceases to be obligatory and could be suspended. As soon as the law of love ceases to be the highest, immutable law of human life, all it's beneficence disappears, and the teaching of love is reduced to eloquent homilies and words which are optional and leave the whole way of the life of the n ...

Universal and natural as is the fighting instinct in man, fruitful as it has proved to be of noble sentiments and manly virtues, it does not comprehend the whole man. Beneath the instinct to fight there lurks a more divine instinct - to love.

With love in our hearts, we find even the most mundane things sacred and beautiful.
With love in our hearts, we become kinder and gentler, even to complete strangers.
Without love in our hearts, we find the world meaningless and random.
Without love in our hearts, we become strangers even to our family and friends.

If you look for love, in pursuit of what it can give you, it will hide itself.
If you ask love to arrive because you are now ready, it will skip your door.
Love is like an uninvited guest.
Love will come when it wants to.
Love will leave when you ask more of it.

Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is a pain, you might say - the pain of being truly alive.

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.