The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
Interpretation
The essence of life lies in both giving and receiving love.
This quote emphasizes the fundamental role love plays in our lives. It suggests that the ability to both express love towards others and to be open to receiving love is crucial for personal fulfillment and emotional well-being, highlighting love as a central tenet of a meaningful existence.
In practice
In a speech about relationships, it’s important to include how love is reciprocal.
People are only mean when they're threatened… and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does. Even people who have jobs in our economy are threatened, because they worry about losing them. And when you get threatened, you start looking out only for yourself. You start making money a god. It is all part of this culture.
The best way to deal with that is to live in a fully conscious, compassionate, loving way. Don't wait until you're on your deathbed to recognize that this is the only way to live.
Now that I'm suffering, I feel closer to people who suffer more than I ever did before. The other night, on TV, I saw people in Bosnia running across the street, getting fired upon, killed, innocent victims....and I just started to cry. I feel their anguish as if it were my own. I don't know any of these people. But - how can I put this? I'm almost......drawn to them.
Do the kind of things that come from the heart, When you do, you won't be dissatisfied, you won't be envious, you won't be longing for somebody else's things. On the contrary, you'll be overhelmed with what comes back
It’s natural to die. The fact that we make such a big hullabaloo over it is all because we don’t see ourselves as part of nature. We think because we’re human we’re something above nature.
When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.
If your souls were not immortal, and you in danger of losing them, I would not thus speak unto you; but the love of your souls constrains me to speak: methinks this would constrain me to speak unto you forever.
Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.
Thus I am not able to exist either with you or without you; and I seem not to know my own wishes.
If she undervalues me, _x000D_ _x000D_ What care I how fair she be?
Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love.
It is not enough for us to say: I love God, but I do not love my neighbour. St. John says you are a liar if you say you love God and you don't love your neighbour. How can you love God whom you do not see, if you do not love your neighbour whom you see, whom you touch, with whom you live.
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