Thought has often been compared to light. In its luminosity, the intellect was deemed to be the place of the divine within us.
- When the human mind began to consider the next greatest mystery of life, the mystery of love, light was also always used as a metaphor for its power and presence.
When love awakens in your life, in the night of your heart, it is like the dawn breaking within you.
- Where before there was anonymity, now there is courage; where before in your life there was awkwardness, now there is rhythm of grace and gracefulness; where before you used to be jagged, now you are elegant and in rhythm with your self.
- When love awakens in your life, it is like a rebirth, a new beginning.
When we love and allow ourselves to be loved, we begin more and more to inhabit the kingdom of the eternal.
- Fear changes into courage, emptiness becomes plenitude, and distance becomes intimacy.
The love side of your life is the place of greatest tenderness within you.
- Love begins with paying attention to others, with an act of gracious self-forgetting. This is the condition in which we grow.
- Friendship needs a lot of nurturing. Often people devote their primary attention to the facts of their lives, to their situation, to their work, to their status. Most of their energy goes into doing.
- Meister Eckhart writes beautifully about this temptation. He says, “Many people wonder where they should be and what they should do, when in fact they should be more concerned about how to be.”
- In a culture preoccupied with fixities, definites, and being correspondingly impatient of mystery, it is difficult to step out from the transparency of false light into the more candlelit world of the soul.
Re-source: Restore
bring back (a previous right, practice, custom, or situation); reinstitute
You are sent here to learn to love and to receive love.
- The greatest gift new love brings into your life is the awakening to the hidden love within. This makes you independent. You are now able to come close to the other, not out of need or with the wearying apparatus of projection, but out of genuine intimacy, affinity, and belonging.
- It is a freedom. Love should make you free. You become free of the hungry, blistering need with which you continually reach out to scrape affirmation, respect, and significance for yourself from things and people outside yourself.
- To be holy is to be home, to be able to rest in the house of belonging that we call the soul.
Making love with someone should not be merely a physical or mechanical release. It should engage the spiritual depth that awakens when you enter the soul of another person.
- When two people come together, an ancient circle closes between them. When you really love someone, you shine the light of your soul on the beloved.
When you send that love out from the bountifulness of your own love, it reaches other people, this love is the deepest power of prayer.
- Prayer is the act and presence of sending this light from the bountifulness of your love to other people to heal, free, and bless them.
- The more love you give away, the more love you will have.
Love is the source, center, and destiny of experience.
craving and resource from “ANUM CARA” – A Book of Celtic Wisdom – by John O’Donohue
