This kind of love doesn't work very well, it destorys the nature of love.
Love does not seek to please itself, but offers itself and its life to others.
The yoga of love is the yoga of acceptance. Love teaches us that which is most important is self-acceptance.
We begin by loving and accepting ourselves.
We learn that those around us are an extension of ourselves, both animate and inanimate. All things have a life and form. We learn to love them all.
In the Yoga of Love we see that matter and spirit are one. It's only the ego that separates.
The ego is a false perception of self. It's an idea, a transitory identity that we've picked up.
The ego is not harmonious with happiness and spiritual development. In the process of spiritual transformation we refine it. In the fire of love we melt the ego down.
What is there when the ego is gone? Eternity, love.
The art of love is to embrace the world and that which lies beyond it.
We encompass all of existence, yet a particle of our awareness is focused in this world, in the moment.
On the path of love we feel that if we love today, it's only because God is loving through us, because there is a special grace present with which we can love.
Everything is the will of God - we are only instruments of her will and we learn to just love and accept.
There is nothing and no one else but your dear friend, eternity, who has always loved you, who will always love you.
In the yoga of love we learn to love consciousness. Consciousness is existence. It is the very stuff of which life is composed.
Love teaches us how to penetrate the inner worlds, to clean the glass of existence and see reality in its perfect essence.
Fix your awareness gently on the center of your chest. Try to feel love.
As you feel more and more love, begin to smile, let go, be free.
There's no place to go. There's nothing to attain. There's nothing to be reached. Love itself is all that you want.
The path of love has many opponents - fear, self-pity, anxiety, hate, lust, greed, avarice - all the usual freinds.
The most successful way to combat these dark clouds that come between the light of you and that which you love, is to feel that love itself will rescue you.
One who practices the yoga of love is like child. When the child has a problem, it cries. When it cries, someone comes and helps the child.
So in the path of love - rather than pulling our willpower together, using our discrimination, or working - we just cry inwardly.
On the path of love we don't feel we necessarily have control. In the yoga of love we feel it's only God who does everything. We can't breathe one breath without God.
We sit in meditation and cry to God, we cry to the light, as little children, knowing God will do everything for us.
