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  • Love is JOY -- not for feeling, talking or discussing. Nor is it subject to logic or arguments.
  • Love is Love, nothing behind, nothing beyond.
  • Love alone is fulfillment.
  • Love has the power to arouse love. It does not arouse passions (whether physical, mental or intellectual).
  • Love is not transient. It simply continues to exist, expand and manifest.
  • Love is what a mother pours in to bring out Supreme Love -- a manifestation in abundance anywhere you turn!
  • Lack of Love is stress, which is caused by selfishness.
  • No activity, good or evil, can manifest Love.
  • Love loves Love alone and overlooks the auxiliaries (body, mind, intellect).
  • Lack of Love is death.
  • Love does not demand.
  • Love does not give nor take. It merely persists.
  • Love overpowers fear.
  • Love has no aspirations, no hope, nowhere to go, and nothing to do except to love.
  • Love is full in itself and wherever it is (i.e. everywhere). It has no restraints of time, place or possessions.
  • Love does not change.
  • Love does not own but keeps the beloved free because it wants him to be free. Therefore, there is no jealousy.
  • Love never allows its beloved any separation.
  • Love always thinks of its beloved and not of itself.
  • Love never back bites, praises, nor degrades.
  • Love over-powers anger, lust and greed.
  • Where there is Love, there is no sex. Where there is sex, there is no Love.
  • Love is indifferent to everything except love and so its manifestations.
  • Love sees no division, it has all the power it needs, yet never uses.
  • Love never causes suffering, planning, imagination or self-propagation.
  • Love is happy as is, wherever it may be.
  • Love defeats the enemy by converting him to Love.
  • Love never hates, never takes revenge and yet it never fails.
  • Love talks in silence and silence is the talk of Love.
  • The nearest Love we experience is when we are freshly born and our mother is unaware of what is happening.
  • Love is to look within and not without.
  • Love is found within and finds itself everywhere.
  • Love sees itself everywhere because it is all pervading.
  • All we have is Love. Ignorance, health and sickness are its manifestations at lower levels.
  • There are various reflections of the same diamond which has several polished surfaces. So is Love.
  • You will find Love whether you look for it or not because Love always works for you. It will find you. Stop working for Love because that process itself is an obstacle.
  • Love is never depressed because it never expects. It considers loss in gain and gain in loss.
  • Love is winning in losing and losing in winning.
  •  Love wants animosity destroyed. It embraces the purified soul as its own.
  • Love never settles for anything less than Love.
  • Love overpowers all your resistance when and where it decides to do so.
  • Love brings you closer.
  • Love makes you forgetful of the past, as it always works in the present moment only. No past, no future.
  • Love can express if it chooses or remain silent if it so wishes.
  • Love never approves dishonesty, never threatens its lover, never tries to please anything but Love.
  • Love is beautiful. The beauty is Love.
  • There is no negligence in Love.
  • Ugliness is another face of beauty, and beauty is another face of ugliness.
  • Love gives us hope, faith, assurance par excellence, and stays with us without purpose.
  • The whole universe is the breast of Love; it always remains eternally nurtured by Love.
  • Love never denies or misrepresents anything that exists.
  • Love sees the cause of happening though there is no cause.
  • Love has no evil. Evil has no existence.
  • Love has never non-existence.
  • Without Love we are living dead. Living part is Love, dead part is loveless.
  • Love never pressurizes its lover directly or indirectly, through threats or bribery. Love works through freedom.
  • Love never promises. Love itself is a promise.
  • Love changes every second, never tells you the direction it takes.
  • Love never descends. It just ascends to higher and higher purity. Energy is the nearest manifestation of Love.
  • Love has no relationship, no obligation and therefore no duty to be fulfilled.
  • Love and duty never go together; yet, Love never fails to fulfill its duty to love.
  • Love knows that nothing belongs to it but it belongs to all.
  • Love has no preference, no priority, no injustice, never argues to anyone's advantage and has no doubts.
  • Love is self contained and knows its power but never uses it.
  • Love permits foolishness only to the degree to which it wants to attract it to itself.
  • Foolishness and wisdom have nothing to do with Love.
  • Love does not create, therefore does not destroy. Yet, Love is creation and creation is Love.
  • Love is beyond study, discussion, logic, books, beyond words, thoughts, beyond meditation and samadhi.
  • You cannot help but let it Love. Love will love irrespective of you.
  • Love knows your pride and its destructive powers. Love gives you the power to defend, freedom to choose, and remains unaffected under all circumstances barring none.
  • Love never tolerates your suffering and never causes you any suffering either.
  • Love is never depressed due to its own suffering .... it always provides happiness.
  • Love cannot be bought or traded.
  • Jealousy merely intensifies Love, and then jealousy disappears. Love never disappears.
  • Love simply exits, never to be known.
  • Love can express itself to ignorant but for the wise it simply presents itself within and without expression.
  • Love can create clouds of vanity and then by its own power it can dissolve vanity as the sun creates clouds and then causes them to disappear.
  • All that we know through senses or faculties is the imagination of the mind and the intellect that really never exists.
  • Good or bad mind cannot show Love. Only a purified mind can oblige with its own disappearance.
  • Time is the biggest illusion for Love. Do not seek Love. Do not resist Love. Do not discuss Love. Do not talk about Love. Simply immerse yourself to Love.
  • Silence is the nearest joy of Love. Everything else is a disturbance.
  • The more you run after Love, the more it drifts from you, just like the appearance of water in a dessert.
  • Intellect cannot reach Love, so it returns empty handed and creates confusion.
  • Love comes in its own time.
  • Love is precision, discipline, demanding performance, never allows negligence. It always gets things done under favorable or unfavorable circumstances. Love has no obstacles.
  • Love prefers to wither and die rather than kill something else for its survival. By doing so it simply saves the killer. It always forgives without a cause or an explanation or making you feel ashamed of your action.
  • Love admonishes to prevent you from future admonishing.
  • Love does not grieve though it does miss its beloved.
  • Love does not cheat.
  • Love is Krishna. Love is Gopi. Krishna is Gopi. Love plays with Itself.
  • Love and work have nothing to do with each other. The more you strain for Love, the  less you enjoy Love.
  • Love is known by only those who have experienced it. It can never be explained. Explanations are simply a make-believe currency, never real gold.
  • Without the experience of Love, life is nothing but vanity and a waste.
  • Love feels suffering only through sympathy but not in reality.
  • Fearlessness is Love.

This is only a drop from the ocean of Love. The rest is up to you. No questions, no explanations, no need for justifications. Just Love.

--Swami Radhanandaji 

Last Updated ( Saturday, 01 September 2007 )
 
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