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LOVE quotes

yous — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:10:44 GMT

the following text is a collection of quotes on LOVE gathered here and there in our universe they are located here: http://yous.org/om/archives/category/quotes/lov/ enJOY! Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you. Wayne Dyer Like the wind, which we cannot see yet know is all around us, love is often more easily perceived through its effects. As we transcend the boundaries of ego in order to love and be loved, we put aside self-centeredness and experience unity with another, and compassion, peace, joy, excitement, and fulfillment are the inevitable results. It is irrelevant whether the focus is a lover, a child, a relative, or a friend; the results are both familiar and novel, more so when love is returned in kind. But Paramahansa Yogananda noted that "to describe love is very difficult, for the same reason that words cannot fully describe the flavor of an orange. You have to taste the fruit to know its flavor. So with love." Those who have tasted of it often equate love with jealousy, bitterness, resentment, lust, or aggressive attachment, but it is none of these things. Love is both a feeling and an action, for as it brings us into the light, so do we strive for the happiness, safety, health, and fulfillment of those we love. Much of the mystery is rooted in the incomprehensibility of love's purpose. Self-sacrifice, procreation, caring, and romance can all exist separate from love. It is possible to have intense feelings for others but not define those feelings as love. And yet love remains a powerful and universal force that uplifts, inspires, and is strong enough to bring about great change. It is true that love can be fleeting and accepts few controls or conditions. The strongest loves blaze into being and wither away in an instant or last lifetimes. The one constant is the release of emotion. Love is not learned but brought forth from within because the basic nature of the human animal is love. It is only fear that causes the need to love and be loved to be buried. When we accept our worthiness and reject indifference, it is then that we are able to become outlets of love." ~ Unknown "Feel the Love Generation!" ~ Bob Sinclar feat. Gary Pine "Love is the most beautiful gift we are given to share". ~ Anonymous "One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love". ~ Sophocles "Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination". ~ Franois-Marie Arouet 'Voltaire' "If a thing loves, it is infinite". ~ William Blake "To be loved, love." ~ Publius Ovidius 'Ovid' Naso "If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his/her problem. Love and Peace are eternal". ~ John Winston Ono Lennon "Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it". ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. "When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will finally know peace". ~ Jimi Hendrix "All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore, love for love's sake, because it is law of life, just as you breathe to live". ~ Swami Vivekananda "We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end." ~ 'The Right Honourable' Benjamin Disraeli "The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing". ~ Blaise Pascal "One love, one heart, let's get together and feel alright." ~ Robert Nesta 'Bob' Marley "Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none". ~ William Shakespeare "The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others". ~ Vincent van Gogh "And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love". ~ 1 Corinthians 13:13 "Love demands all, and has a right to all". ~ Ludwig van Beethoven "It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death". ~ Paul Thomas Mann "And of course, the brain is not responsible for any of the sensations at all. The correct view is that the seat and source of sensation is the region of the heart." ~ Aristotle "The truth of love is the truth of the universe: it is the lamp of the soul that reveals the secrets of darkness". ~ Kabir "A mind might ponder its thought for ages, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach in a day". ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson "The success of love is in the loving- it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done". ~ 'Blessed Mother Teresa' Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu "Let the beauty of what you love be what you do." ~ 'Mevlana' Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi "Love of consciousness evokes the same in response Love of feeling evokes the opposite Love of body depends only on type and polarity." ~ Georges Ivanovich Gurdjieff "The brain gives the heart its sight. The heart gives the brain its vision." ~ Kall "The more you judge, the less you love". ~ Honore de Balzac "All that we are is the result of what we think. How then can a man escape being filled with hatred, if his mind is constantly repeating: 'He misused me, he hit me, he defeated me, he robbed me.' ? Hatred can never put an end to hatred; hate is conquered only by love." ~ Siddhartha Gautama 'Buddha' "At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet". ~ Plato "Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius." ~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "Do you love your Creator? Love your fellow-beings first." ~ Muhammad ur 'Rasulu Allah' "All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love". ~ Lev Nikolayevitch 'Leo' Tolstoy "He is not a lover who does not love forever". ~ Euripides "Whether humanity will consciously follow the law of love, I do not know. But that need not disturb me. The law will work just as the law of gravitation works, whether we accept it or not. The person who discovered the law of love was a far greater scientist than any of our modern scientists. Only our explorations have not gone far enough and so it is not possible for everyone to see all its workings". ~ Mohandas Karamchand 'Mahatma' Gandhi "We Are not In pursuit of formalities Or fake religious Laws, For through the stairway of existence We have come to God's Door. We are People who need to love, because Love is the soul's life, Love is simply creation's greatest joy. Through The stairway of existence, O, through the stairway of existence, Hafez, Have You now come, Have we all now come to The Beloved's Door." ~ Khwajeh Shams ad-Din Muhammad 'Hafez'-e Shirazi "They say it is to know the union with love that the soul takes union with the body". ~ Tiruvalluvar "Allow yourself to fall in with the natural order of phenomena, without admitting the element of self, and the empire will be governed." ~ Zhuang Zi "Teach this triple truth to all: a generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity." ~ Siddhartha Gautama 'Buddha' "What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil". ~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche "And think not, you can direct the course of love; for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course". ~ Gibran Khalil Gibran "Every religion emphasizes human improvement, love, respect for others, sharing other people's suffering. On these lines every religion had more or less the same viewpoint and the same goal." ~ 'His Holiness 14th Dalai Lama' Tenzin Gyatso (speaking on the "Golden Rule") "The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. So it goes. Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.... The chain reaction of evil hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. "Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours". ~ Ludwig van Beethoven "Love does not dominate; it cultivates". ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it." ~ 'Mevlana' Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary". ~ Steven Paul Jobs "Love one another!" ~ John 15:12 "Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it." ~ Confucius "Love conquers all; and let us submit to love". ~ Publius Vergilius Maro "Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive." ~ 'His Holiness 14th Dalai Lama' Tenzin Gyatso "Im sorry, but I dont want to be an emperor. Thats not my business. I dont want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone - if possible - Jew, Gentile - black man - white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each others happiness - not by each others misery. We dont want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned mens souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.... The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men - cries out for universal brotherhood - for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world - millions of despairing men, women, and little children - victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed - the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish...... Soldiers! Dont give yourselves to brutes - men who despise you - enslave you - who regiment your lives - tell you what to do - what to think and what to feel! Who drill you - diet you - treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Dont give yourselves to these unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts! You dont hate! Only the unloved hate - the unloved and the unnatural! Soldiers! Dont fight for slavery! Fight for liberty! In the 17th Chapter of St Luke it is written: the Kingdom of God is within man - not one man nor a group of men, but in ALL men! In YOU! You, the people have the power - the power to create machines. The power to create happiness! YOU, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then - in the name of democracy - let us use that power - let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world - a decent world that will give men a chance to work - that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfil that promise. They never will! Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people! Now let us fight to fulfil that promise! Let us fight to free the world - to do away with national barriers - to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all mens happiness. Soldiers! In the name of democracy, let us all Unite!" ~ 'Sir' Charles Spencer 'Charlie' Chaplin (The Great Dictator - 1940) "Ye are the fruits of one tree, and the leaves of one branch. Deal ye one with another with the utmost love and harmony, with friendliness and fellowship. He Who is the Daystar of Truth beareth Me witness! So powerful is the light of Unity that it can illuminate the whole Earth." ~ 'Baha'u'llah' Mirza Husayn -Ali I was never emotionally invested in the guy. Jamye What??? You're going to get the fish you already threw back in the ocean? Amine C. Didn't you know that peaches are seasonal and bananas are permanent? D - Thank you for all the free peaches! HaHa Love & Time are the only things that cannot be bought, only spent. Jealousy is always born with love, but never dies with it. Bittermoon: Nothing ever surpassed that first awakening; I might have been Adam with the taste of apple still in my mouth. I was looking at all the beauty in the world embodied in a single female form and I knew with sudden blinding certainty: THIS IS IT! Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, ends with a tear. You can give without loving but you can't love without giving. Since I was so quickly done for, I wonder what I was begun for? Jessica Bita: Don't make it happen, let it happen. On Love: There's a mental block when you already carry one in your heart.

Brighten your corner!

yous — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:58:15 GMT

Have you noticed the great difference between the people you meet? Some are as sunshiny as a handful of forget-me-nots. Others come on like frozen mackerel. A cheery, comforting nurse can help make a hospital stay bearable. An upbeat assistant makes visitors glad they came to see you. Every corner of the world has its clouds, gripes, complainers, and pains in the neck- because many people have yet to learn that honey works better than vinegar. You're in control of your small corner of the world. Brighten it... You can.

Some Kiss We Want

yous — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 00:40:02 GMT

There is some kiss we want with our whole lives, the touch of spirit on the body. Seawater begs the pearl to break its shell. And the lily, how passionately it needs some wild darling! At night, I open the window and ask the moon to come and press its face against mine. Breathe into me. Close the language-door and open the love window. The moon won't use the door, only the window. Rumi

The funniest phrase i heard in years!!!

yous — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 22:42:25 GMT

"i lost my virginity..... but i still have the box it came in!"

on va s'aimer (gilbert montagné - in French again!)

yous — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 21:29:48 GMT

On va s'aimer, à toucher le ciel Se séparer, à brûler nos ailes Se retrouver comme les hirondelles On va s'aimer, tellement tu es belle On va jeter les clés d'la maison On va rêver à d'autres saisons On va quitter ces murs de prison On va s'aimer Sur une étoile, ou sur un oreiller Au fond d'un train, ou dans un vieux grenier Je veux découvrir ton visage où l'amour est né On va s'aimer Dans un avion, sur le pont d'un bateau On va s'aimer, à se brûler la peau Et s'envoler, toujours, toujours plus haut Où l'amour est beau oh oh oh oh oh On va s'aimer, aux marches des églises Se réchauffer au cœur des banquises Se murmurer toutes ces bêtises On va s'aimer, j'aime que tu dises On va partir au bout d'une île Pour découvrir l'habit fragile Se découvrir, amoureux encore On va s'aimer Sur une étoile, ou sur un oreiller Au fond d'un train, ou dans un vieux grenier Je veux découvrir ton visage où l'amour est né On va s'aimer Dans un avion, sur le pont d'un bateau On va s'aimer, à se brûler la peau Et s'envoler, toujours, toujours plus haut Où l'amour est beau On va s'aimer Sur une étoile, ou sur un oreiller Au fond d'un train, ou dans un vieux grenier Je veux découvrir ton visage où l'amour est né On va s'aimer Dans un avion, sur le pont d'un bateau On va s'aimer, à se brûler la peau Et s'envoler, toujours, toujours plus haut Où l'amour est beau On va s'aimer Je veux découvrir ton visage où l'amour est né On va s'aimer Dans un avion, sur le pont d'un bateau On va s'aimer, à se brûler la peau Et s'envoler, toujours, toujours plus haut Où l'amour est beau, oui On va s'aimer On va s'aimer On va s'aimer...

Et si tu n'existais pas? (And if you didn't exist? in French)

yous — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 03:28:50 GMT

Et si tu n'existais pas, Dis-moi pourquoi j'existerais. Pour traîner dans un monde sans toi, Sans espoir et sans regrets. Et si tu n'existais pas, J'essaierais d'inventer l'amour, Comme un peintre qui voit sous ses doigts Naître les couleurs du jour. Et qui n'en revient pas. Et si tu n'existais pas, Dis-moi pour qui j'existerais. Des passantes endormies dans mes bras Que je n'aimerais jamais. Et si tu n'existais pas, Je ne serais qu'un point de plus Dans ce monde qui vient et qui va, Je me sentirais perdu, J'aurais besoin de toi. Et si tu n'existais pas, Dis-moi comment j'existerais. Je pourrais faire semblant d'être moi, Mais je ne serais pas vrai. Et si tu n'existais pas, Je crois que je l'aurais trouvé, Le secret de la vie, le pourquoi, Simplement pour te créer Et pour te regarder. [Joe Dassin-Et si tu n'existais pas]

giggling and smiling

yous — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 17:00:56 GMT

There are wild wandering Sufis called qalandars, who are constantly tickled with life. It's scandalous how they love and laugh at any small event. People gossip about them, and that makes them deft in their cunning, but really a great God-wrestling goes on inside these wanderers, a flood of sunlight that's drunk with the whole thing... - Rumi

Sufi Trance

yous — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 07:20:17 GMT

Sufi Trance Communal ceremonies characterized by rhythm, repetition and endurance where their participants dance and sometimes sing with great intensity, until they reach the state of trance. Sufism is a thirteen hundred years old tradition that gets its shape inside Islam, as well as picking up elements from older religious practices. The core of Sufism is to leave the ordinary life, in order to shorten the distance to God, and henceforth truth and knowledge. The soul is seen as an element that can stretch out from the carnal body, and pass through the divine spheres. In Mysticism of Sound, Hazrat Inayat Khan writes: "Abstract Sound is called "saute surmadi" by the Sufis. All space is filled with it. It was the "saute surmadi", the sound of the abstract, which Mohammed heard in the cave of Gar-e-Hira. Moses heard this very sound on Mount Sinai. It was heard by Christ when God manifested to him in the wilderness. Shiva heard the same "anahad nad" during his samadhi in the cave of the Himalayas. The flute of Krishna is symbolic of the same sound. This sound is the source of all revelation to the Masters. Whoever has followed the strains of this sound has forgotten all earthly distinctions. The sound of the abstract is always going on within, around and about man. Man does not hear it as a rule, because his consciousness is entirely centered in his material existence. In comparison to it, the sounds of the earth are like that of a whistle to a drum. When the abstract sound is audible all other sounds become indistinct to the mystic. The sound of the Abstract is called anahad in the Vedas, meaning unlimited sound. The Sufis' name it surmadi, which suggests the idea of intoxication. The word intoxication is here used to signify upliftment, exaltation, freedom of the soul from its earthly bondage. Those who are able to hear the "saute surmadi" and meditate on it are relieved from all worries, anxieties, sorrows, fears and diseases; and the soul is freed from captivity in the senses and in the physical body. The soul of the listener becomes the all-pervading consciousness. Some train themselves to hear the "saute surmadi" in the solitude of the seashore, on the riverbank, and in the hills and dales; others accomplish it while sitting in the caves of the mountains, or when wandering constantly through forests and deserts, keeping themselves in the wilderness apart from the haunts of men. The bells and gongs in the churches and temples are meant to suggest the same sacred sound, and thus lead a man toward the inner life. This sound develops through ten different aspects, because of its manifestations through ten different tubes of the body. It sounds like thunder, the roaring of the sea, the jingling of bells, the running water, the buzzing of bees, the twittering of sparrows, the vina, the whistle, or the sacred sound of shankha, until it finally becomes the hu, the most sacred of all sounds. This sound hu is the beginning and the end of all sounds, be they from man, bird, beast or thing. A minute study will prove this fact, which can be realized by listening to the sound of the steam engine or of a mill; the echo of bells or gongs gives a typical illustration of the hu sound. The more a Sufi listens to the "saute surmadi", the sound of the abstract, the more his consciousness becomes free from all the limitations of life. The soul then floats above the physical and mental planes without any special effort on man's part, which shows his calm and peaceful state. A dreamy look comes into his eyes and his countenance becomes radiant. He experiences the unearthly joy and rapture of wajad (ecstasy). When ecstasy overwhelms him, he is neither conscious of the physical existence, nor of the mental. This is the Heavenly Wine, to which all Sufi poets refer, and is totally unlike the momentary intoxication of this mortal plane. A heavenly bliss then springs in the heart of a Sufi, his mind is purified from sin, his body from all impurities, and a pathway is opened for him toward the worlds unseen; he begins to receive inspirations, intuitions, impressions and revelations, without the least effort on his part. He is no longer dependent upon a book or a teacher, for divine wisdom, the light of his soul, the Holy Spirit, begins to shine upon him.

FMG june 06

yous — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 06:02:05 GMT

what a wonderful week end in mojave with friends and family. it is so beautiful to find the time to reconnect with all 5 elements where they individually shine. we laughed and discussed many topics. shared food, smiles and happy moments. but most of all, we danced our asses off. what an amazing time. thank you for all of you who put this gathering together. thank you from the bottom of my heart! yous