Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Love Quote

Three passions have governed my life:
The longings for love, the search for knowledge,
And unbearable pity for the suffering of [humankind].

Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness.
In the union of love I have seen
In a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision
Of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined.

With equal passion I have sought knowledge.
I have wished to understand the hearts of [people].
I have wished to know why the stars shine.

Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens,
But always pity brought me back to earth;
Cries of pain reverberated in my heart
Of children in famine, of victims tortured
And of old people left helpless.
I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot,
And I too suffer.

This has been my life; I found it worth living.

Friday, February 15, 2008

True Purpose of Love

When Consciousness separated from its origin and became in-conscience, the origin emanated Love to reawaken Consciousness from the depth of the in-conscience and bring it back into touch with its origin.

It may be said that at its origin love is supreme power of attraction which awakens, in response, the irresistible need of an absolute self-giving; they are the two poles of the urge towards complete fusion.

No other movement could, better and more surely than this, throw a bridge across the abyss dug by the sense of separation that from the formation of individual. It was necessary to bring back to itself what had been projected in to space without destroying for this purpose the universe created thus.

This is why LOVE sprang up, the irresistible power of union.