10 quotes
Feeling the oneness of yourself with all things is true love.
Stillness Speaks (2003)
All the things that truly matter - beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace - arise from beyond the mind.
A New Earth (2005)
I call love the recognizing of yourself in the other, and yourself your essential self.
To Love is to recognize yourself in another.
Seeing beauty in a flower could awaken humans, however briefly, to the beauty that is an essential part of their own innermost being, their true nature.
A New Earth (2005)
What is commonly called “falling in love” is in most cases and intensification of egoic wanting and needing. You become addicted to another person, or rather to your image of that person. It has nothing to do with true love, which contains no wanting whatsoever.
A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose (2005)
How wonderful to go beyond wanting and fearing in your relationships. Love does not want or fear anything. (Ch 8)
Stillness Speaks (2003)
The reason why the romantic love relationship is such an intense and universally sought-after experience is that it seems to offer liberation from a deep-seated state of fear, need, lack, and incompleteness that is part of the human condition in its unredeemed and unenlightened state.
The Power of Now (1997)
The first recognition of beauty was one of the most significant events in the evolution of human consciousness. The feelings of joy and love are intrinsically connected to that recognition. Without our fully realizing it, flowers would become for us an expression in form of that which is most high, most sacred, and ultimately formless within ourselves.
A New Earth (2005)
Some people have been trying for centuries to love their neighbor as themselves. But they have been finding it difficult because loving your neighbor as yourself really means, first of all, you need to be in touch with yourself, the self that you are beyond the form. And then you can love your neighbor as yourself because you recognize your oneness with your neighbor.