Do Everything with the Attitude of Love — Love for God and for God in All

5. Do Everything with the Attitude of Love —
Love for God and for God in All

Whatever I do,
I do with the greatest love that I have in me.

Try this, and you will see that you do not become fatigued at all. Love is one of the greatest stimulants to the will. Under the influence of love the will can do almost anything.

Do everything with the attitude
of love — love for God
and for God in all.

It is hard for the ordinary person to tell the difference between a desire for others' good and a desire to satisfy self-love. Often one who is well-intentioned in caring for others is carried away instead by self-love. When the desire for self-interest is gone completely from the consciousness, and the only desire is to serve others and do the highest good for all, that is wisdom. It is very difficult to do, but when selfish love completely goes, then one tastes divine love. (jt)

The satisfaction of love is not in the feeling itself, but in the joy that feeling brings. Love gives joy. We love love because it gives us such intoxicating happiness. So love is not the ultimate; the ultimate is bliss. God is Sat-Chit-Ananda, ever-existing, ever-conscious, ever-new Bliss. We, as soul, are individualized Sat-Chit-Ananda.

"From Joy we have come, in Joy we live and have our being, and in that sacred Joy we will one day melt again." (Taittiriya Upanishads 3.6.1)

All the divine emotions—love, compassion, courage, self-sacrifice, humility— would be meaningless without joy. Joy means exhilaration, an expression of the ultimate Bliss. (dr)

Though one must love God in order to know Him
it is equally true that
one must know God in order to love Him.

No one can love anything of which he is entirely ignorant; no one can love a person who is completely unknown to him. But those who meditate deeply do "know," because they find proof of the existence of God as the ever new Joy felt in meditation, or the Cosmic Sound of Aum (Amen) heard in deep silence, or the Cosmic Love experienced while concentrating devotion in the heart, or the Cosmic Wisdom that dawns as inner enlightenment, or the Cosmic Light evoking visions of Infinity, or the Cosmic Life felt during meditation when the little life is joined to the greater Life in everything. ...

There is but one Originator of all capabilities of man:

God is the Creator of our love with which we love

God is the Creator of our love with which we love, of our souls with which we claim immortality, of our minds and mental processes with which we think and reason and accomplish, of our vitality with which we engage in the activities of life. We should use all these gifts in a supreme energetic effort in meditation to express our love to God until we feel consciously His responding manifestation. (sc)

As Jesus' great disciple John wrote:

"Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love."
(First Epistle of St. John, 4:7-8)

The world as a whole has forgotten the real meaning of the word love. Love has been so abused and crucified by man that very few people know what true love is.

Just as oil is present in every part of the olive, so love permeates every part of creation. (dr)

True love is divine, and divine love is joy. The more you meditate, seeking God with a burning desire, the more you will feel that love in your heart. Then you will know that love is joy, and joy is God. (dr)

Many human beings say "I love you" one day and reject you the next. That is not love. One whose heart is filled with the love of God cannot willfully hurt anyone. When you love God without reservation, He fills your heart with His unconditional love for all. That love no human tongue can describe. (me)

I sought love in many lives. I shed bitter tears of separation & repentance to know what love is. I sacrificed everything, all attachment & delusion, to learn at last that I am in love with Love - with God - alone. Then I drank love through all true heart. I saw that He is the one Cosmic Lover, the One Fragrance that permeates all the variegated blossoms of love in the garden of life. (dr)

Be afraid of nothing. Hating none, giving love to all, feeling the love of God, seeing His presence in everyone, and having but one desire—for His constant presence in the temple of your consciousness—that is the way to live in this world. Those who have other desires will not know true satisfaction. (me)

That love must be sincere; when it comes from the heart, love is magical. You should not look for the effects; even if your love is spurned, pay no attention. Give love and forget. Don't expect anything; then you will see the magical result. (me)

Love is a universal emotion; its expressions are distinguished by the nature of the thought through which it moves. Hence, when love passes through the heart of the father, fatherly consciousness translates it into fatherly love. When it passes through the heart of the mother, motherly consciousness translates it into motherly love. When it passes through the heart of the lover, the consciousness of the lover gives that universal love still another quality. It is not the physical instrument, but the consciousness through which the love moves that determines the quality of love expressed. Thus a father may express motherly love, a mother may express friendly love, a lover may express divine love. (dr)

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