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Let your love propel your beloveds into the world – and into the full experience of who they are. In this you will have truly loved.
from Conversations With God, Book 1, by Neale Donald Walsch (see works by Neale Donald Walsch )
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery (see works by Antoine de Saint-Exupery )
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
Alexander Smith
We love purely when we release other people to be who they are.
from A Return to Love, by Marianne Williamson (see works by Marianne Williamson )
And I, who looked only for God, found thee.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (see works by Elizabeth Barrett Browning )
You don't have to earn or deserve love. You are love. Loving is never about how others treat you. It is always about how you are treating yourself.
from Fearless Loving: 8 Simple Truths That Will Change the Way You Date, Mate and Relate, by Rhonda Britten (see works by Rhonda Britten )
But the love of the soul is love supreme. It is love in our spiritual essence and of our eternal belonging. In this deep love we ascend above our emotions – how we feel, what’s troubling us – and into the realm of mystical, non-material essence, the realm of the ecstatic.
For in our souls, we are all warp and weft of the one great seamless cloth, woven together of all that we have been, all that we shall be – our victories and majesties and sorrows, our tragedies and grand heroic moments. In the soul’s love we sense far within us, as if written in faint, faded ink on the ancient notebooks of our genes, that we have all been all things - both male and female, parent and child, abuser and abused, villager and king. To behold one another through this great encompassing love, love indivisible, love uncompromising, brilliant, radiant and immense, is to behold the whole of human history, the face of God, in a single human being’s eyes.
from Heart & Soul, by Daphne Rose Kingma (see works by Daphne Rose Kingma )
The best thing parents can do for their children is to love each other.
Unknown
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
The Buddha (see works about the Buddha )
Make a personal decision to be in love with the most beautiful, exciting, worthy person ever – you.
Then and only then will the world love you.
The Daily Guru
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you will help them become what they are capable of becoming.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (see works by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe )
It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
Hermann Hesse
Love one another but make not a bond of love, let there be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone.
Kahlil Gibran (see works by Kahlil Gibran )
The people with whom you work reflect your own attitude. If you are suspicious, unfriendly and condescending, you will find these unlovely traits echoed all about you. But if you are on your best behavior, you will bring out the best in the persons with whom you are going to spend most of your waking hours.
Beatrice Vincent
In a world where the computer replaces human encounter and psychology replaces religion, it is no wonder that there is an obsession with relationship. Unfortunately, however, ‘relationship’ has become an empty centre around which our lonely hunger forages for warmth and belonging. Much of the public language of intimacy is hollow and its incessant repetition only betrays the complete absence of intimacy. Real intimacy is a sacred experience. It never exposes its secret trust and belonging to the voyeuristic eye of a neon culture. Real intimacy is of the soul, and the soul is reserved.
from Anam Cara, Spiritual Wisdom from the Celtic World (p39), by John O’Donohue
What we know about individuals, no matter how rich the details, will never give us the ability to predict how they will behave as a system. Once individuals link together they become something different ... Relationships change us, reveal us, evoke more from us. Only when we join with others do our gifts become visible, even to ourselves.
Margaret Wheatley and Myron Kellner-Rogers
Let the world unfold without always attempting to figure it all out. Let relationships just be, since everything is going to stretch out in Divine order. Don’t try so hard to make something work – simply allow. Don’t always toil at trying to understand your mate, your children, your parents, your boss, or anyone else because the Tao is working at all times.
Wayne Dyer (see works by Wayne Dyer )
Are we not formed, as notes of music are,
For one another, though dissimilar?
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.
Harriet Goldhor Lerner
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