Feelings and emotions are only the creation of mind and energy. Love is the creation of the soul.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that feelings stem from our mental and energetic processes, while love transcends these and originates from the deeper essence of the soul.
Meher Baba emphasizes the distinction between transient feelings and the profound nature of love. He asserts that while our emotions and feelings are products of our mind and energetic state, true love is a deeper, spiritual creation that comes from the soul, suggesting that love is a fundamental and enduring force that connects us beyond our fleeting emotional states.
In practice
During a speech on relationships, one could quote this to highlight the different layers of human connection.
The experiences are so innumerable and varied, that the journey appears to be interminable and the Destination is ever out of sight. But the wonder of it is, when at last you reach your Destination you find that you had never travelled at all! It was a journey from here to Here.
Love has to spring spontaneously from within And it is no way amenable to any form of inner or outer force. Love and coercion can never go together; But though love cannot be forced on anyone, It can be awakened in him through love itself. Love is essentially self communicative; Those who do not have it catch it from those who have it. True love is unconquerable and irresistible, And it goes on gathering power and spreading itself, Until eventually it transforms everyone whom it touches.
Suffering is essential for the elimination of the ego, just as it was necessary for you to scrub and scrub in order to wash the stain from my coat.
There is no greater romance in life than this adventure in realization.
What I want from my lovers is real, unadulterated love, and from my genuine workers I expect real work done.
Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others. Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving. So learn to love and give, and not to expect anything from others.
To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive - to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before
I didn't know what hate felt like, not the hate that comes after love. It's huge and desperate and it longs to be proved wrong. And every day it's proved right it grows a little more monstrous. If the love was passion, the hate will be obsession. A need to see the once-loved weak and cowed beneath pity. Disgust is close and dignity is far away. The hate is not only for the once loved, it's for yourself too; how could you ever have loved this?
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
The highest form of love is the love that allows for intimacy without the annihilation of difference.
I wish every woman would love herself and embrace what she was given naturally.
Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience, as often at times of failure as in moments of ecstasy.
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