VOICES OF LOVE
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From: Joann K.
Date: Sunday, February 3, 2008, 7:55 AM
Subject: Voices of Love
ID: 259673

Good Day, dear lovely everyOne,

Below, I’ve gathered a little ‘Love bouquet’ for you to savor and enjoy. Women and men, saints and sages, scholars and poets, psychiatrists and philosophers and beautifully ordinary people all agree – Love is the motive Energy of our Universe. With Love, we can’t go wrong. With Love, we dance our Way through this cosmic splendor all around and within us. With Love we are shaped and directed and protected and grown into who we know we have always been – loving divine sparks within the One Divine Flame.

Hundreds and hundreds of people have given their testimony about Love’s Being and purpose, and we have a living manual of Love in our quotes section, which includes witnesses from everywhere and everywhen, giving forth their unique expressions of Love’s meaning. And while each one really IS unique and individual, yet the miracle of it All is that they sound forth in complete harmony and unity, bearing a Living Oneness in their ideas and words.

As our own little group grows and expands in the Love which fashions it, let us listen to these voices of our sisters and brothers, spanning all ages and places. Let us bring them into our discussion and communication, because they want to be heard – need to be heard – so that the harmony and unity and Loving Oneness can be as full-bodied as possible.

Love to you all, everyOne of you,

JoAnn

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“Love is the instinct most deeply rooted in human nature.” C. G. Jung, ‘Symbols of Transformation’, CW 5, Bollingen 1967, par. 127, p. 85

“In the blaze of love it is known: we are particles each of each, we are cells of the Mother of all.” Elsa Gidlow (1898-1986), ‘In The Blaze of Love’, quoted by Andrew Harvey, ‘The Essential Gay Mystics’, HarperCollins 1997, p. 271

“Everyone on the face of the globe is worthy of being loved.” John Marks Templeton, ‘Worldwide Laws of Life’, Templeton Foundation Press 1998, p. 145

“If a person lives a hundred years and engages the whole of his time and attention in religious offerings to the gods….all this is not equal to one act of pure love.” ‘Fa-Kheu-King-Tsu’, VII, quoted by Robley Edward Whitson, ‘Mysticism and Ecumenism’, Sheed & Ward 1966, p. 156

“He who loves not, lives not.” Ramon Lull, quoted in ‘Living Quotations for Christians’, Harper & Row 1974, p. 148

“When believed and understood, the conviction that God is love will unite people everywhere.” Jeffrey Moses, ‘Oneness: Great Principles Shared by All Religions’, Ballantine 1989, p. 105

“Love transforms multiplicity into unity and establishes relationships between parts and wholes.” Peter Roche deCoppens, ‘Divine Light and Love’, Element 1994, p. 49

“Love is the energy, the light, and the sound that echoes from your soul and emanates from the center of your heart.” Rabbi Shoni Labowitz, ‘Miraculous Living’, Simon & Schuster 1996, p. 197

“’It is love which makes the world go round’, says an old, familiar adage…the truth of all is behind it.” Arthur E. Waite, ‘Lamps of Western Mysticism’, Rudolf Steiner Pub. 1973, p. 270

“When I hesitate on how to act in some situations, I always ask love. It advises best.” Bl. Sister M. Faustina Kowalska, ‘Diary: Divine Mercy in My Soul’, Marians 1987, p. 485

“Love, according to its very nature, causes peace.” Thomas Aquinas, ST II-II, q. 29, a. 3, ad 3., quoted by Matthew Fox, ‘Sheer Joy’, Tarcher/Putnam 2003, p. 442

“It is Love that moves the universe.” Matthew Fox, ‘The Coming of the Cosmic Christ’, Harper & Row 1988, p. 120

“My heart has opened unto every form. It is a pasture for gazelles, a cloister for Christian monks, a temple for idols, the Ka’ba of the pilgrim, the tablets of the Torah and the book of the Koran. I practice the religion of Love; in whatsoever directions its caravans advance, the religion of Love shall be my religion and my faith.” Ibn ‘Arabi, quoted by Huston Smith, ‘The World’s Religions’, HarperCollins 1991, p. 264

“Love is real;….love saves;….love perfects;….enlightened love is the most precious thing in all the world.” Manly P. Hall, ‘Buddhism and Psychotherapy’, Philosophical Research Society 1979, p. 86

“All began in love; all seeks to return to love. Love is the law, the teacher of wisdom, and the great revealer of mysteries.” Starhawk, ‘The Spiral Dance’, Harper & Row 1979, p. 18

“After we acknowledge the centrality of love, everything that happens is part of the process of awakening to the fact that love brought us here, that we are loved by a beneficent unseen Reality, and that the core of our being is love. Love is seeking to discover itself; indeed the whole purpose and meaning of creation is to discover the secret of love.” Kabir Helminski, ‘Sufism, A Path to Human Wholeness’, quoted in ‘The Inner West’, edited by Jay Kinney, Tarcher/Penguin 2004, p. 87

“Cultivation of the mind of love is essential…We should all take it as the very basis and structure of our practice.” The Dalai Lama, ‘Between Self and Others: Cultivating an Enlightened Attitude’, The American Theosophist, May 1981, p. 119

“The movement of loving is circular, and love is the real unitive force.” Marie Louise vonFranz, ‘Aurora Consurgens’, Bollingen 1966, p. 181