Kindness, Love & Compassion đź’—
The two aspects of holding—contact and space, attunement and letting be—correspond to the two core qualities of love, warmth and openness, that are native to our being. Warmth is our natural impulse to reach outside ourselves, touch, and make contact, to welcome, embrace, and take delight in. Openness is our capacity to let be, to allow, to let in
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Because we are interconnected, when we awaken love in ourselves and express it, our love changes the world around us. The hearts of those we touch are opened, and they in turn touch the hearts of others. Love is the basic nature, the goodness of all beings, waiting to manifest. Whether we offer love in silent prayer or aloud, we are helping love to
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Love is the energy which expands, opens up, sends out, stays, reveals, shares, heals.
Neale Donald Walsch • The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue (Conversations with God Series)
According to the Sufis, God’s very essence—God’s substance—is love. Love is the agent of creation. Sufism does not allow for the concept of creation ex nihilo because, before there was anything, there was love: that is, God loving God’s self in a primordial state of unity. It was only when God desired to express this love to an “other” that
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You will never feel loved until you love yourself .
—ARNAUD DESJARDINS
Welwood, John • Perfect Love
An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
JOHN WESLEY
Mardy Grothe • I Never Metaphor I Didn't Like
