Personal Development

Love

Peter Deunov
Mme de Staël

While "love" may be difficult to define, it may be experienced by anyone who is willing to open his or her mind and heart and soul to its powerful energy.

Unlimited love has been called the unifying, harmonizing, creative energy wherein the entire universe lives and moves and has existence. This pure, unlimited love may be the basic reality. Many of us may know from personal experience and observation that love has the ability to bring a sparkle to the eyes and vitality to life.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Unlimited love can forgive shortcomings; it keeps no score of wrongs, and is patient and kind. Unlimited love is not jealous, boastful, irritable, or resentful, and does not rejoice in what is wrong. It eliminates fear, guilt, condemnation, unhappiness, and transforms the individual or situation in which it is permitted to be expressed. So, on the basis of experience and evidence, it seems essential to become thoroughly acquainted with unlimited love.

Pitirim Sorokin

Marianne Williamson

The rich variety of world religions creates a tapestry of amazing beauty - a testimony to the essential spiritual nature of our human visit on earth. And yet, within this amazing and sometimes fascinating diversity can be found an equally amazing unity.

Could the basis for this unity be agape love? Agape love means feeling and expressing pure unlimited love for every human being with no exception. It gives of itself and expects nothing in return.

Agape love is a deliberate choice that each of us can make. It resembles an exercise program. When a person signs up for a program like running or lifting weights, persistence and perseverance are necessary to realise the many benefits successfully.

The same can be true of increasing our ability to love in an unlimited way. We "exercise" every day and, as we do, we become increasingly able to develop a habit of loving unconditionally and in an unlimited manner.
Love given grows; love hoarded dwindles!
The more love we give, the more we have left. Love given is love received.

Viktor E. Frankl