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LOVE
Feb 01, 2008
The following are selected excerpts from my book,
LOVE, published by Andrews McMeel. If you enjoy this selection, you'll adore the book. I am honored to share these quotations with you here. Add them to your collection, send them to your friends... Love & Joy, Ingrid
Love gives not but itself
and takes not but from itself.
Love possesses not nor
would it be possessed.
For love is sufficient unto love.
~Kahlil Gibran
Be drunk with Love,
for Love is all that exists.
~Rumi
I have met on the street a very poor man
who was in love. His hat was old,
his coat was out at the elbows,
the water passed through his shoes,
and the stars through his soul.
Victor Hugo
Oh Light of the morning,
Season of Joy~
A love as deep as this
contains all things:
winds of orchid fragrance,
moonlit summer lakes,
the boundless ocean,
infinite sky,
lamp-lit village squares,
star-flung winter nights…
~Ingrid Goff-Maidoff
At the touch of love
everyone becomes a poet.
~Plato
What is life without the radiance of love?
~J.C. Friedrich Von Schiller
Spread love everywhere you go: First of all in your
own home. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband,
to a next-door neighbor…Let no one ever come
to you without leaving better and happier.
Be the living expression of God's kindness;
kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes,
kindness in your smile, kindness
in your warm greeting…
~Mother Teresa
The important thing is not to think much but to love much.
Do that which best stirs you to love.
~Saint Teresa of Avila
Love is a sacred reserve of energy;
it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.
~Tielhard de Chardin
For one human being to love another,
that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks;
the ultimate, the last test and proof,
the work for which all other work is but preparation.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek out and find
all of the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
~A Course in Miracles
That love is all there is
Is all we know of love.
~Emily Dickinson
Love is the energizing elixir of the universe,
the cause and effect of all harmonies,
light's brilliance and the heat in wine and fire,
it is the aroma of perfumes
and the breath of the Divinity;
it is the Life in all being. -Rumi
Love all beings:
every flower, every cloud,
every pebble in the road.
Love each other and the world,
and one day the light in your hearts
will join the Divine Radiance of things,
and each will be
without beginning, without end.
~Ingrid Goff-Maidoff
Love is an endless mystery,
for it has nothing else to explain it.
~Rabindranath Tagore
Come out of the circle of time,
and into the circle of love.
~Rumi
We must widen our circle of love
until it embraces the whole village;
the village in turn must take into its fold
the district; the district the province,
and so on 'til the scope of our love
encompasses the whole world.
~Gandhi
Love is infinitely, vastly greater than us all.
As the ocean contains every wave,
Love contains us, and we contain love.
In reality, we are love~
mostly, essentially, luminously~
this is what we are.
~Ingrid Goff-Maidoff
In as much as love grows in you,
So in you beauty grows.
For love is the beauty of the soul.
~ Saint Augustine
Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking.
It is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices in the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes,
always perseveres. Love never fails.
~I Corinthians
Someday, after we have mastered the winds,
the waves, the tides of gravity, we will harness
for God the energies of love. And then,
for the second time in the history of the world,
man will have discovered fire. ~Tielhard De Chardin
Give yourselves to love,
and, becoming love,
find the world
which has been dwelling
in the center of the heart.
~Ingrid Goff-Maidoff
Life is the flower
for which Love is the honey.
~Victor Hugo
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
~Pablo Picasso
Who, being loved, is poor?
~Oscar Wilde
Love is life. All, everything that
I understand, I understand only
because I love. Everything is,
everything exists, only because I love.
~Leo Tolstoy
Love lifts burdens,
lightens darkness,
and warms our winter days.
Love feeds the heart that is hungry,
illumines beauty, and softens sadness.
Seen and unseen,
bidden and unbidden,
forgotten and remembered,
Love holds us all
in a tender embrace.
~Ingrid Goff-Maidoff
If we want a love message to be heard,
it has got to be sent out.
To keep a lamp burning
we have to keep putting oil in it.
~Mother Teresa
The aim of all spiritual practice is love.
~Sai Baba
Let us dedicate our days
to the sacredness of Love.
May wisdom, joy and beauty,
gratitude, trust and peace~
the very energy of Life~
flow through us, lighting our way.
May Love and the passion that is Love
emanate from our deepest center,
our deepest hope,
our deepest, most heartfelt "Yes."
~Ingrid Goff-Maidoff
Go forth in every direction-
for the happiness, the harmony,
the welfare of the many.
Offer your heart,
the seeds of understanding,
like a lamp overturned and re-lit,
illuminating the darkness. ~Buddha
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