There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer: no disease that love will not heal: no door that enough love will not open...It makes no difference how deep set the trouble: how hopeless the outlook: how muddled the tangle: how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. If only you could love enough you would be the happiest and most powerful being in the world.
Interpretation
Love has the power to overcome challenges and heal wounds.
This quote by Emmet Fox conveys the profound strength of love in overcoming difficulties and healing emotional and physical ailments. It suggests that when love is deeply realized and practiced, it can untangle life's complexities, resolve seemingly insurmountable problems, and transform one's existence into a fulfilling and powerful experience, ultimately leading to profound happiness.
In practice
During a speech about community resilience, one might quote this to highlight the importance of love in overcoming adversity.
Let us be merciful in our mental judgments of our brothers and sisters, for, in truth, we are all one, and the more deeply they seem to err, the more urgent is the need for us to help them with the right thought, and so make it easier for them to get free.
What we see in the outer is but a reflection of the inner, because we surround ourselves with a picture of our own beliefs. In other words, we manifest in general what we seriously think and believe. So if we want to find out what our habitual thinking is like, we have but to look around us and ask ourselves what we really see.
Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you....If you bless a situation, it has no power to hurt you, and even if it is troublesome for a time, it will gradually fade out, if you sincerely bless it.
It is the Law that any difficulties that can come to you at any time, no matter what they are, must be exactly what you need most at the moment, to enable you to take the next step forward by overcoming them. The only real misfortune, the only real tragedy, comes when we suffer without learning the lesson.
What we experience is our own concept of things. That is why no two people see quite the same world, and why, in many cases, different people see such different worlds. To put it another way, we make our own world by the way in which we think; for we really do live in a world of our own thoughts.
To be afraid is to have more faith in evil than in God.
But who can distinguish between falling in love and imagining falling in love? Even genuinely falling in love is an act of the imagination.
I don't know when we'll see each other again or what the world will be like when we do. We may both have seen many horrible things. But I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.
He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
When the bride is one with her lover, who cares about the wedding party?
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
I've learned two things in my life. One that love is the beginning and end of all meaning. And two that it is the same thing whatever shape our souls have taken on this journey. Love is love. Is love.
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