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Love

Across world spiritual traditions, love is a profound and multifaceted concept. Many traditions converge on the idea that love is a fundamental force for connection and unity. However, they diverge in their understandings of its nature and expression.

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Serve, love, give, purify, meditate, and realize
Swami Sivananda
HinduTeachingCleansing HeartsHelpfulness
All About Hinduism, p. 1
You have been born in this world as a human being to worship God, so try to cultivate love for his divine presence.
Ramakrishna Paramhamsa
HinduTeachingDevotionLove
The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, p. 780
Love is selfless and pure when it has no ulterior motives.
Baba Gurbachan Singh Ji
UniversalTeachingAltruismLove
Stream of Thoughts, p. 59
The psychic personality within us blossoms as the saint, the sage, or the seer. When it reaches its full potential, it directs the being toward self-awareness and the divine, toward the highest truth, goodness, beauty, love, and bliss, and the divine expanses, opening us to the experience of spiritual sympathy, universality, and oneness.
Sri Aurobindo
HinduTeachingAttainmentLove
The Life Divine, p. 253
Love transcends discrimination and separation.
Baba Gurbachan Singh Ji
UniversalTeachingLoveDiscrimination
Stream of Thoughts, p. 60
Ever keep the Guru's form in remembrance; always repeat the Guru's name; follow the Guru's instruction without fail; and let the mind dwell on nothing other than the Guru.
HinduScriptureGuruLoveSanskrit
Guru Gita 18
The Lord said: O Goddess, you are my very Self. Out of my love for you I shall speak. This question of yours, which benefits all the world, has never been asked by anyone before.
HinduScriptureHelpfulnessLoveSanskrit
Guru Gita 4
God is more tender to His servants than a mother to her nursing child.
Al-Ghazali
SufiTeachingKindnessLoveArabic
Alchemy of Happiness (Al-Ghazali — scripture edition), p. 13
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and strength.
St. John of the Cross
ChristianScriptureLoveSoul
Ascent of Mount Carmel, p. 282
Regardless of their inherent nature, these things cannot help him love God as much as the smallest act of living faith and hope, which is done with selflessness and detachment from all things.
St. John of the Cross
ChristianTeachingAltruismFaith
Ascent of Mount Carmel, p. 266
Whoever loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love them and reveal Myself to them.
Jesus
ChristianScriptureLoveGod
Ascent of Mount Carmel, p. 226
In this way, gradually and quickly, divine calm and peace will be infused into your soul, along with a wonderful and sublime knowledge of God, wrapped in divine love.
St. John of the Cross
ChristianTeachingGod KnowledgeHarmony
Ascent of Mount Carmel, p. 172
When the soul completely frees itself from everything that goes against God's will and conforms to it, it is transformed in God through love.
St. John of the Cross
ChristianTeachingLoveReformation
Ascent of Mount Carmel, p. 132
Have contentment, work with love, maintain purity of mind and body, practice contemplation, and have faith in the Lord, viewing all with equanimity.
Guru Nanak
SikhTeachingContentmentFaithPunjabi
Japji Sahib (Gurmukhi and English), p. 63
The person who lives in God's love must be detached from themselves and all created things, and consider themselves just one among millions.
Meister Eckhart
ChristianTeachingLoveOneness
Meister Eckhart Sermons, p. 18
I have loved you with an everlasting love, and so I have drawn you to myself with loving kindness.
Meister Eckhart
ChristianScriptureBenevolenceKindness
Meister Eckhart Sermons, p. 9
This secret psychic entity is the true, original conscience within us, deeper than the conventional conscience constructed by moralists. It always points us towards truth, rightness, beauty, love, harmony, and all the divine possibilities within us, persisting until these become the primary needs of our nature.
Sri Aurobindo
HinduTeachingHarmonyLove
The Life Divine, p. 253
Listen to me, brother, and bring the vision of the Beloved into your heart.
Kabir
HinduTeachingLoveVision
Songs of Kabir, p. 50
Whoever offers a leaf, a flower, a fruit, or even water with devotion, I accept it, as it is offered with a loving heart.
Lord
HinduScriptureDevotionLove
All About Hinduism, p. 106
The one who practices non-violence develops cosmic love to the highest degree. The practice of non-violence eventually leads to the realization of one's true self or the unity of the Self.
Swami Sivananda
HinduTeachingHarmonyLove
All About Hinduism, p. 38