Midweek pick-me-up: Iris Murdoch on love
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Nicolas Truong • In Praise of Love
And that is why love is so terrifying, for to love is to see and to see is to die. But it is also the most delightful exhilarating experience in the whole world. For in the death of the ego is freedom, peace, serenity, joy.
Anthony SJ de Mello • The Way to Love: Meditations for Life
Love begins with paying attention to others, with an act of gracious self-forgetting.
John O'Donohue • Anam Cara: 25th Anniversary Edition
“I cannot but see you as myself. It is in the very nature of love to see no difference.”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.