Love, Dance, Live

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep

In the ocean of God’s beauty;

If you descend to the uttermost depths,

There you will find the gem of love.

                                   

                                    Bengali Hymn

That one I love who is incapable

Of ill will, and returns love for hatred.

Living beyond the reach of I and mine,

And of pain and pleasure, full of mercy,

Contented, self-controlled, of firm resolve,

With all his heart and all his mind given to me –

With such a one I am in love.

 

                                    Sri Krishna (Bhagavad Gita)

Most of us think of love as a one-to-one relationship, which is the limitation of love on the physical level. But there is no limit to our capacity to love. We can never be satisfied by loving just one person here, another there. Our need is to love completely, universally, without any reservations – in other words, to become love itself.

                                    Eknath Easwaran

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand.

Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each separate fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

 

                                    F.M. Dostoevsky