Love is nothing if it is not spontaneous. It cannot be a conclusion of reasoning.
Interpretation
Love should come naturally and cannot be forced or calculated.
This quote emphasizes that true love must arise spontaneously rather than being a product of logical reasoning or deliberate thought. It suggests that the most genuine forms of affection are those that occur unexpectedly and without premeditation, highlighting the emotional and instinctual nature of love.
In practice
This quote could be used in a wedding speech to emphasize the naturalness of love.
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.
For me the only things of interests are those linked to the heart
My friends, how desperately we need to be loved and to love. With it we are creative. With it we march tirelessly. With it, and with it alone, we are able to sacrifice for others.
The most powerful love songs always turn on the discrepancy between the act of declaring love and the knowledge that the ostensible addressee is no longer there, was never there, and could never be there.
Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.
If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action.
When once you realize all that it cost God to forgive you, you will be held as in a vice, constrained by the love of God.
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