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1		"Love, the Supreme Musician, is always playing in our souls." Rumi The Essential Mystics (Andrew Harvey)

2		"Love creates life, life everlasting, life abundant, and brings with it peace, joy, and true and lasting happiness and contentment, and above all unity and oneness." The Spirit of Findhorn (Eileen Caddy)

3		"Let the love of the individual parts for one another and for the Whole exceed self-love and excel unto an expansion of Love within the creation in honor of the Creator, finding thereby reunion with the one Life which is All and in all." Saint Germain on Alchemy (Mark L. and Elizabeth Clare Prophet)

4		“God’s eternal love dwells in the soul.” Mechthild of Magdeburg Meditations from Mechthild of Magdeburg (Henry L. Carrigan, Jr., editor)

5		"Compassion is not just emotion; it is force. It is an aspect of the infinite power of God. Humanity's next great leap in consciousness will be the realization that love is a power to be applied – no less than the power of steam, the power of electricity, or the power of the atom." Everyday Grace, Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles (Marianne Williamson)

6		"Beauty is simply Reality seen with the eyes of love." Mysticism (Evelyn Underhill)

7		"The Radiant Power of the Living God is always ready to Incarnate as your own Life of Love." The Enlightenment of the Whole Body (Bubba Free John)

8		"It would not occur to anyone to question the statement that we 'need' iodine or vitamin C. I remind you that the evidence that we 'need' love is of exactly the same type." Toward A Psychology of Being (Abraham Maslow)

9		"One of the greatest paradoxes of the mystical life is this: that a man cannot enter into the deepest center of himself and pass through that center into God, unless he is able to pass entirely out of himself and empty himself and give himself to other people in the purity of a selfless love." Thomas Merton, 'Seeds of Contemplation' (20th century) The Book of Catholic Quotations (John Chapin, Editor)

10		"Love makes a man better, hate makes him worse – even when that man is oneself." Collected Works (Carl Jung)

11		"Love is everywhere present, in and through all of life. It only needs to be recognized and used, and when we understand this we find that there is no obstacle that can stand in its way." Drawing the Larger Circle, How to Love and Be Loved (Jack and Cornelia Addington)

12		"The source of timeless unconditional love, like the Buddha nature, lies hidden within, awaiting only our willingness to see." Shadows of the Sacred: Seeing Through Spiritual Illusions (Frances Vaughan, Ph.D.)

13		"Every single atom in the universe responds and yields its deepest secrets to unconditional love." Worldwide Laws of Life: 200 Eternal Spiritual Principles (John Marks Templeton)

14		"God is Love; His plan for creation can be rooted only in love....Every saint who has penetrated to the core of Reality has testified that a divine universal plan exists and that it is beautiful and full of joy." Autobiography of a Yogi (Paramahansa Yogananda)

15		"Eros is the true healer. You only need to cultivate this feeling that binds you to others and to the living world." A Passion for This Earth, Exploring a New Partnership of Man, Woman & Nature (Valerie Andrews)

16		"We are being invited to an opening of our hearts and a deeper awareness of our souls, to an experience of the energy of love which is, in fact, our essence and to infuse it into every arena of our existence. What this means, very simply, is that we need to love more. We are being called to more conscious love, more kinds of love, more capacity to love, more freedom to love, more valuing of love, more trusting that love will carry us to where we need to go, more capacity to feel love that is constantly being offered to us in a myriad of forms – by lovers and strangers, by plants and animals and trees, by flowers and children, and by the gentle Earth itself. We are being asked to become creators of the changes through which, subtly, and with beauty, our world will become ever more infused with love." Daphne Rose Kingma, 'A Profound Infusion of Love' The Fabric of the Future (M. J. Ryan, editor)

17		"We're here to learn to love more fully, to be God or angels in disguise for one another, to show our love, to show our compassion, to be active in creation. That is the reason and the meaning behind our lives. Each of us has a choice about how to love the world in our unique way." Bernie Siegel, M.D., 'Heart Lessons' Handbook for the Heart, Original Writings on Love (Richard Carlson and Benjamin Shield, editors)

18		"Blessed is he who can love all…equally." St. Maximos the Confessor, 'First Century on Love' The Philokalia, volume 2 (various authors, compiled by St. Nikodimos of the Holy Mountain)

19		"Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds." Goethe One Thousand Inspirational Things (Audrey Stone Morris, Compiler)

20		"Have ever in mind that love is energy and that it is a substance as real as dense matter." Esoteric Healing (Alice A. Bailey)

21		"The love we realize within ourselves and pass on to others will bring sanity to a disturbed world." Drawing the Larger Circle, How to Love and Be Loved (Jack and Cornelia Addington)

22		"We are shaped and fashioned by what we love." Goethe One Thousand Inspirational Things (Audrey Stone Morris, Compiler)

23		"Love is like a fisherman's hook….He who is caught by it is held by the strongest of bonds – yet the being drawn in by it is pleasant….Therefore look only to this hook, for in being caught you will be blessed. The more you are caught the more you are made free." Meister Eckhart Men Who Have Walked With God (Sheldon Cheney)

24		"The love which we bear for others remains the mark of the authenticity of our contemplation." Roger of Taize, Co-founder and Prior of the Taize community The Lion Christian Quotation Collection (Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild, compilers)

25		"We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart." Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), French mathematician and theologian The Lion Christian Quotation Collection (Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild, compilers)