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Since our work is about the heart chakra, I thought I would do a little remedial reading on the meaning of love and give myself a refresher course on what it is and why we're here. Anyone interested, please join me. Here's my first inspirational nugget.


The Wonders of Love - Swami Omkarananda

Love is Greater than Wisdom, Logic, Virtue and Prayer
More than intelligence, Love quickens talent and genius. Without Love, intelligence can
do much harm. More than logic, Love assigns to reason the dignity of an unerring
thought. Without Love, logic can be dangerous.
More than Law, Love dispenses a justice that elicits ultroneously the enthusiastic
approval of Man, God and all Nature. Without Love, law can be blind and cruel.
More than wisdom, Love is an all-comprehending Virtue, and spans in the extent of its
phenomenon, meaning and power, both the ethical and the spiritual thought, action and
achievement. There can be no real wisdom without Love. Love is a Power for
accomplishment, a Force for culture, a Sentiment that renders all life, one. Love is an
exalted emotion that uplifts the soul of man into a divine Awareness.

yes yes !! loves bypasses the rationality of the mind and urges us
to dive into the tenderness of the heart

Let us work together for unity and love

I offer you peace.
I offer you love.
I offer you friendship.
I see your beauty.
I hear your need.
I feel your feelings.
My wisdom flows from the Highest Source.
I salute that Source in you.
Let us work together for unity and love.

Mahatma Ghandi

this seemed to fit:

Dalai Lama ~ The purpose of our life needs to be positive. We weren’t born with the purpose of causing trouble, harming others. For our life to be of value, I think we must develop basic good human qualities – warmth, kindness, compassion, love. Then our life becomes meaningful and more peaceful – happier.

There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer;
no disease that enough love will not heal;
no door that enough love will not open;
no gulf that enough love will not bridge;
no wall that enough love will not throw down;
no sin that enough love will not redeem...
It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble;
how hopeless the outlook; how muddled the tangle; how great the mistake.
A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.
If only you could love enough you would be
the happiest and most powerful being in the world...
~Emmet Fox~

"Intellectuals try not to drown, while the whole purpose of love is drowning."
...Rumi

Someone should start laughing
I have a thousand brilliant lies
For the question:

How are you?

I have a thousand brilliant lies
For the question:

What is God?

If you think that the Truth can be known
From words,

If you think that the Sun and the Ocean

Can pass through that tiny opening Called the mouth,

O someone should start laughing!
Someone should start wildly Laughing –Now!

Hafiz

Laughing At The Word Two

Only

The Illumined
One

Who keeps
Seducing the formless into form

Had the charm to win my
Heart.

Only a Perfect One

Who is always
Laughing at the word
Two

Can make you know

Of

Love.

~Hafiz~
The Gift

For one human being to love another:
that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks;
the ultimate, the last test and proof,
the work for which all other work is but preparation.
...Rainer Maria Rilke

Gayan 380 - Chala 59 - Great personalities are few in the world, and
fewer still those who know them.

And those great souls who have brought the message of God to
humanity from time to time - Buddha, Krishna, Jesus Christ, Moses,
Abraham, Zarathusthra - they were well known as most learned men. And
what they learned, they learned from the love principle, what they
knew was compassion, forgiveness, sympathy, and tolerance; that
attitude of appreciation; that opening of the heart to humanity. What
they taught was love, a simple Truth. If religions seem complex, they
have been added to. In every case what was brought by the prophet was
simple, and it was expressed in his personality and his life, and it
is that influence that has remained for centuries after they have
passed away. It is not the literature they have left. Most of the
literature is from their pupils. It is the simple truth shown in their
personalities and their lives. The error of this day and age is that
we cannot understand the simple Truth, the Truth as manifested
everywhere--instead of trying to find Truth covered in a shell.

Social Gatheka #27 - Khwaja Shams-ud-din Mohammed Hafiz

"You are what your deep driving desire is.
As your desire is, so is your will.
As your will is,so is your deed. As your deed is,
so is your destiny. "
...Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

Gayan 401 - Chala 80 - The truth, sincerely spoken, must certainly
calm the heart of the listener.

For with love, harmony comes, beauty comes, rhythm, light and life
come. It seems that all that is good and beautiful and worth attaining
is centered in that one spark that is hidden in the heart of man. When
the heart speaks of its joy, of its sorrow, it is all interesting, it
is all appealing. The heart does not tell a lie, it always tells the
truth, for by love it becomes sincere and it is through the sincere
heart that true love manifests.

Social Gathekas - Poetry (1)



The depth of the word of each person is very different. If a person
has spoken a hundred words in one day, do you think that every word
has the same power? No, the power and effect of a particular word
depend upon the state in which that person was, and from what depth
the word rises. Upon this depend the power and light of that word. For
instance, with a person who has a habit of telling a lie, who is
insincere, you will always find that his words are dropping down; his
words have no force, while the one who speaks with conviction, who is
sincere, who tells the truth - his word has a light, his word
penetrates. Sometimes, from a person full of sadness and heartbroken,
a voice comes, a word, full of sincerity; it has all the power to
penetrate; it has such an effect upon the listener! Then there is
another person who is lighthearted, who is not deep, not serious
enough in life; everything he says and does is always on the surface;
he inspires no one with confidence, for he himself has no confidence.

[Vol. 2] The Mysticism of Sound and Music - The Power of the Word (I)