Inspirational Quotes & Stories about Love
Your understanding of truth is in direct relation to your ability to
love. When we speak of love it is not about "special love" where one
individual or individuals are loved more than or over others. When we
speak of love, it is an all-encompassing, all-inclusive, non-divisible
love.
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James Blanchard Cisneros, You Have Chosen to Remember: A Journey From
Perception to Knowledge, Peace of Mind and Joy, p. 50
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"Love is not
primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an
orientation of character that determines the relatedness of a person to
the world as a whole, not toward one "object" of love. If a person loves
only one other person and is indifferent to the rest of his fellow men,
his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
Yet, most people believe that love is constituted by the object, not by
the faculty. In fact, they even believe that it is proof of the
intensity of their love when they do not love anybody except the "loved"
person. This is the same fallacy, which we have already mentioned above.
Because one does not see that love is an activity, a power of the soul,
one believes that all that is necessary to find is the right object -
and that everything goes by itself afterward. This attitude can be
compared to that of a man who wants to paint but who, instead of
learning the art, claims that he has just to wait for the right object,
and that he will paint beautifully when he finds it. If I can say to
somebody else, "I love you," I must be able to say, "I love in you
everybody, I love through you the world, I love in you also myself."
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Erich Fromm,
The Art of Loving
Cited in You Have Chosen to Remember, p.
50-51
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As you allow love to fill more aspects of your life, the truth of who
you are will become clearer. The more you are able to share and extend
love, the more you will be able to see and experience truth. Both love
and truth are boundless. To try and use words to define such energies
would be to try and establish boundaries around All That Is.
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James Blanchard Cisneros, You Have Chosen to Remember: A Journey From
Perception to Knowledge, Peace of Mind and Joy, p. 51
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"We all have so
many possible occasions for loving and yet there is so little
demonstrated love in the world. People are dying alone, crying alone.
Children are being abused and elderly people are spending their final
days without tenderness and love. In a world where there is such an
obvious need for demonstrated love, it is well to realize the enormous
power we do have to help and heal people in our lives with nothing more
complicated than an outstretched hand or a warm hug. Day's end is a good
time to reflect on what you have done to make the world a better, more
caring and loving place. If nothing springs to mind night after night,
this can also be an excellent time to consider how you can change the
world for the better. You need not perform monumental acts, but act on
the simple things which are easily accomplished: the phone call you have
not made, the note you have put off writing, the kindness you have
failed to acknowledge. When it comes to giving love, the opportunities
are unlimited and we are all gifted."
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Leo Buscaglia,
Born for Love
Cited in You Have Chosen to Remember, p. 103
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The message was "Love me for who I Am, not for what I might say, look
like, or do." In that moment I found myself loving Him not for what He
was saying, not for what he looked like, not what he was doing. I loved
the Christ in Him, who He in truth, is. He is like us, and we are all
the children of God; there is no difference to me between Him or anyone
else. That is what I loved about Him-it had nothing to do with what He
can say or do, and nothing he says or does changes anything about the
truth in Him. Just as I believe that nothing anyone on this planet can
do or say can change the truth of who that person is.
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James Blanchard Cisneros, You Have Chosen to Remember: A Journey From
Perception to Knowledge, Peace of Mind and Joy, p. 161-162
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In Kahlil Gibran's
book "Jesus Son of Man," Kahlil discusses the concept that the
"stranger" you see is much more like you than you realize, and the more
understanding you receive, the more these so-called differences or
barriers fall. Gibran explains this concept using an example of Peter's
recollection of Jesus talking to him. Jesus says:
"Your neighbor is
your other self dwelling behind a wall. In understanding, all walls
shall fall down. Who knows but that your neighbor is your better self,
wearing another body? See that you love him as you would love yourself.
He too is the manifestation of the Most High, whom you do not know. Your
neighbor is a field where the springs of your hope walk in their green
garments, and where the winters of your desire dream of snowy heights. I
would have you love your neighbor even as I have loved you."
Then I asked Him
saying, "How can I love a neighbor who loves me not, and who covets my
property? One who would steal my possessions?"
And He answered,
"When you are plowing and your oxen is sowing the seed behind you, would
you stop and look backward and put to flight a sparrow feeding upon a
few of your seeds? Should you do this, you were not worthy of the riches
of your harvest."
When Jesus had said
this, I was ashamed and was silent. But I was not in fear, for He smiled
upon me."
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Kahlil Gibran,
Jesus Son of Man
Cited in You Have Chosen to Remember, p.189-190
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People themselves
are great guideposts and often show you where you are. They act as
mirrors to show you something about yourself. The degree to which people
love, support, and acknowledge you is in direct relation to the degree
to which you have learned to love, support and acknowledge yourself. For
when you acknowledge that you are worthy of love, you open the door to
it, and it is by opening the door that you let others in.
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James Blanchard Cisneros, You Have Chosen to Remember: A Journey From
Perception to Knowledge, Peace of Mind and Joy, p. 243
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"You have many
lovers, and yet I alone love you. Other men love themselves in your
nearness. I love you in yourself. Other men see a beauty in you that
shall fade away sooner than their own years. But I see in you a beauty
that shall not fade away, and in the autumn of your days that beauty
shall not be afraid to gaze at itself in the mirror, and it shall not be
offended. I alone love the unseen in you."
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(Jesus talking to
Mary Magdalene)
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Kahlil Gibran
Cited in You Have Chosen to Remember, p. 247
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Footnotes / Acknowledgments
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2.
Erich Fromm, The Art of
Loving, Copyright 2000 (Perennial Publishing).
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8.
Leo Buscaglia, Born for
Love: Reflections on Loving, Copyright 1992 (Random House).
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21.
Kahlil Gibran, Jesus
Son of Man: His Words and His Deeds as Told and Recorded By Those Who
Knew Him, Copyright 1995 (Knoph).
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27.
Kahlil Gibran, Jesus
Son of Man: His Words and His Deeds as Told and Recorded By Those Who
Knew Him, Copyright 1995 (Knoph).
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