The soul is made of love and must ever strive to return to love. Therefore, it can never find rest nor happiness in other things. It must lose itself in love. By its very nature it must seek God, who is love.
Interpretation
The essence of the soul is love, and true fulfillment lies in seeking love, particularly divine love.
This quote emphasizes the fundamental nature of the soul as being intertwined with love. It suggests that true happiness and peace cannot be found in worldly things but rather in a deep, selfless embrace of love, which it associates with the pursuit of God, who embodies love itself. The idea that the soul must 'lose itself in love' signifies a call to transcend individual desires in favor of universal and divine love.
In practice
During a wedding ceremony, one might quote this to emphasize the importance of love in marriage.
That prayer has great power which a person makes with all his might. It makes a sour heart sweet, a sad heart merry, a poor heart rich, a foolish heart wise, a timid heart brave, a sick heart well, a blind heart full of sight, a cold heart ardent. It draws down the great God into the little heart; it drives the hungry soul up into the fullness of God; it brings together two lovers, God and the soul, in a wondrous place where they speak much of love.
From suffering I have learned this: that whoever is sore wounded by love will never be made whole unless she embraces the very same love which wounded her.
The day of my spiritual awakening was the day I saw and knew I saw all things in God and God in all things.
A fish cannot drown in water,_x000D_ A bird does not fall in air._x000D_ In the fire of creation,_x000D_ God doesn't vanish:_x000D_ The fire brightens._x000D_ Each creature God made_x000D_ must live in its own true nature;_x000D_ How could I resist my nature,_x000D_ That lives for oneness with God?
You are like night, calmed, constellated. Your silence is star-like, as distant, as true.
There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.
I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.
Allowing someone else to make us happy will make them happy too.
He had no plans, no definite intentions, except to kiss her lips again, to hold her in his arms.
Love is higher than opinion. If people love one another the most varied opinions can be reconciled - thus one of the most important tasks for humankind today and in the future is that we should learn to live together and understand one another. If this human fellowship is not achieved, all talk of development is empty.
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