If you are open with someone, he will be open with you. If you want love from someone, give your love to him. If you want kind and sympathetic behavior from someone, be kind and sympathetic to him.
Maharishi Mahesh YogiRead
Love knows that nothing is ever needed but more love. It is what we all do with our hearts that affects others most deeply. It is not the movements of our body or the words within our minds that transmit love. We love from heart to heart.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Love is essential and transformative, and it connects us deeply beyond words and actions.
This quote emphasizes the idea that true love is not about material needs or mere expressions through speech or actions; rather, it grows from an intrinsic bond felt in our hearts. The essence of love lies in the emotions and connections we create with one another, indicating that our heartfelt intentions and feelings resonate more profoundly than any physical gesture or verbal communication.
Themes
LoveHeartConnectionRelationshipsEmotion
In practice
Example use cases
This quote can be shared at a wedding to emphasize the power of love between partners.
More from Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
All quotes →Know what you want, decide when you want it, figure your plan of action, follow through on it, and never doubt.
Maharishi Mahesh YogiRead
The genius of man is hidden in the silent, settled state of mind from where every thought emerges.
Maharishi Mahesh YogiRead
Meditation is the direct means of eradicating the very cause of the majority of diseases, both mental and physical.
Maharishi Mahesh YogiRead
The whole purpose of life is to gain enlightenment. _x000D_ Nothing else is significant compared to that completely natural, exalted state of consciousness. _x000D_ So always strive for that. _x000D_ Set your life around that goal. _x000D_ Don't get caught up in small things, and then it will be yours.
Maharishi Mahesh YogiRead
Problems are not solved on the level of problems. Analyzing a problem to find its solution is like trying to restore freshness to a leaf by treating the leaf itself, whereas the solution lies in watering the root.
Maharishi Mahesh YogiRead
Similar quotes
Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
Pierre BeaumarchaisRead
The fact is, I need God to help me love God. And if I need His help to love Him, a perfect being, I definitely need His help to love other, fault-filled humans.
Francis ChanRead
This is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment.
Katherine MansfieldRead
But square-cut or pear-shaped, These rocks don't lose their shape. Diamonds are a girl's best friend.
Marilyn MonroeRead
She didn't see him at first. She was watching the dancers. Her color was high, and there were deep dimples at the corners of her mouth. She looked nine miles out of place, but he had never loved her more. This was Willa on the edge of a smile.
Stephen KingRead
All of us know, whether or not we are able to admit it, that mirrors can only lie, that death by drowning is all that awaits one there. It is for this reason that love is so desperately sought and so cunningly avoided. Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
James A. BaldwinRead