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One kind of love expresses itself as attachment to things, affection towards kith and kin, desires for objects. Another kind reveals love in human relations, reverence towards the great and devotion to God. Cultivate love and all its aspects will be fed and fostered. There is only one royal road for the spiritual journey—love. Love all beings as manifestations of the same divinity that is the very core of yourself. Love all beings, that is enough.
See God in everyone, even in persons whom you regard as your enemies. Practice that broad all-inclusive type of love.
Remember, when love is installed in the heart, jealousy, hatred and untruth will find no place there.
Expansion is life. Expansion is the essence of love. Live in love.
Love expresses itself as service. Love grows through service. Love is born in the womb of service. And God is love.
Right conduct must be surging from the heart as the cool energizing water of love and peace.
The goal can be reached only through the purification of character and the cultivation of unselfish love.
To attain God, love is enough. Love is the key to open the door, locked by egoism and greed.
Love for all should spontaneously flow from your heart and sweeten all your words. The best spiritual discipline that can help man is love. Foster the tiny seed of love that clings to “me” and “mine”; let it sprout into love for the group around you and grow into love for all mankind and spread out its branches over animals, birds, and those that creep and crawl and let the love enfold all things and beings in all the world. Proceed from less love to more love, narrow love to expanded love.
Expand into universal love, unshaken equanimity and ever-active virtue. That is the path, which will bring out the divinity in you to the fullest.
Man’s native characteristic is divine love, his nature is divine love, his breath is divine love.
God is the source of all love. Love God, love the world as the vesture of God, no more no less. Through love you can merge in the ocean of love. Love cures pettiness, hate and grief. Love loosens bonds. It saves man from the torment of birth and death. Loves binds all hearts in a soft silken symphony. Seen through the eyes of love, all beings are beautiful, all deeds are dedicated, all thoughts are innocent, the world is one vast kin.