Quotes About Love

Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.

In this world, hatred never ceases by hatred, but by love alone is healed. This is the ancient and eternal law.

Your world is reborn each morning. And you are allowed to start over, at least in spirit, choosing your way with a beginners mind. Open wide the doors and windows, or close them and sit by the fire. But wherever you are, make room for the new, the uncertain, the mystery...And Love..

George Washington Carver explained, "Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough." Mindfulness is this kind

To meditate is to discover new possibilities, to awaken the capacities of us has to live more wisely, more lovingly, more compassionately, and more fully.

True love and prayer are learned in the hour when love becomes impossible and the heart has turned to stone.

For instance, the near enemy of love is attachment. It masquerades as love, it feels like love, but it is essentially different.

Because love, compassion, and joy can lead to excessive attachment, their warmth needs to be balanced with equanimity. Because equanimity can lead to excessive detachment, its coolness needs to be balanced with love, compassion, and joy. Established together, these radiant qualities express mental harmony.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love." Some

The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love. With

All other spiritual teachings are in vain if we cannot love. Even the most exalted states and the most exceptional spiritual accomplishments are unimportant if we cannot be happy in the most basic and ordinary ways, if, with our hearts, we cannot touch one another and the life we have been given.

Notice when you are open, how others relax their own defensiveness. Let yourself be curious, loving, and concerned. Learn to see in new ways. It's never too late to open your heart and mind.

Hold yourself as a mother holds her beloved child. The Buddha

You can't change it all, but your freedom empowers you to contribute to the world, and your love gives you the way to do so.

Love says, 'I am everything.' Wisdom says, 'I am nothing.' Between these two my life flows.

Your world is reborn each day... And you are allowed to start over, at least in spirit, choosing your way with a beginners mind. Open wide the doors and windows, or close them and sit by the fire. But wherever you are, make room for the new, the uncertain, the mystery.. and love...

If we had been seeking strength through control over ourselves and others, we discover that was only a false version of strength, that truth and inherent strength appear in moments of deep silence and wholeness when we rest unshakably with things as they are. If we had been seeking beauty or love through others or in states that perfect our mind, this too comes whole and unbidden when desires and longings themselves come to rest. This is awakening to our Buddha nature.

Mother Teresa put it like this: "In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.

In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how greatly you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.

Like the mother of the world who carries the pain of the world in her heart, you are sharing in the totality of this pain and are called upon to meet it in compassion and joy instead of self-pity.

Every color shines in the awakened heart.

If you hold on to any expectation, you miss the wisdom. It is impermanent. Be the One Who Knows, the witness to it all. This is how trust grows." And it is how love grows as well. Trust and love are the keys.

The four radiant abodes are loving-kindness, compassion, joy and peace.These abodes are treasured because they are exquisitely simple, the universal expression of an open heart. When our peaceful heart meets other beings it fills with love. When love meets happiness, it becomes joy.

Love being alive. Love your creative, distracted, overworked mind. Love your anxiety and depression and longing and wisdom. Love your food, celebrate your survival, open your senses to the mysterious communion of life right where you are.