The Not-bc-it's-VDay-but-really-bc-it's-VDay Post.
Some quotes on love. Perhaps a little fodder for meditation on what love- not the gift-wrapped, candy-coated, commercialized kind that marketing gurus all over the world try to sell- actually is.
"Love is a light that never dwelleth in a heart possessed by fear." Baha'u'llah
"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear ... " 1 John 4:18
"Know thou of a certainty that Love is the secret of God's holy Dispensation, the manifestation of the All-Merciful, the fountain of spiritual outpourings. Love is heaven's kindly light, the Holy Spirit's eternal breath that vivifieth the human soul. Love is the cause of God's revelation unto man, the vital bond inherent, in accordance with the divine creation, in the realities of things. Love is the one means that ensureth true felicity both in this world and the next. Love is the light that guideth in darkness, the living link that uniteth God with man, that assureth the progress of every illumined soul. Love is the most great law that ruleth this mighty and heavenly cycle, the unique power that bindeth together the divers elements of this material world, the supreme magnetic force that directeth the movements of the spheres in the celestial realms. Love revealeth with unfailing and limitless power the mysteries latent in the universe. Love is the spirit of life unto the adorned body of mankind, the establisher of true civilization in this mortal world, and the shedder of imperishable glory upon every high-aiming race and nation."
'Abdu'l-Baha
"We love Him because He first loved us." 1 John 4:9-10
"O Son of Man! Veiled in My immemorial being, and in the ancient eternity of My essence, I knew my love for thee; therefore I created thee, have engraved on thee Mine image, and revealed to thee My beauty." Baha'u'llah
"For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another." 1 John 3:11
"Love is a light that never dwelleth in a heart possessed by fear." Baha'u'llah
"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear ... " 1 John 4:18
"Know thou of a certainty that Love is the secret of God's holy Dispensation, the manifestation of the All-Merciful, the fountain of spiritual outpourings. Love is heaven's kindly light, the Holy Spirit's eternal breath that vivifieth the human soul. Love is the cause of God's revelation unto man, the vital bond inherent, in accordance with the divine creation, in the realities of things. Love is the one means that ensureth true felicity both in this world and the next. Love is the light that guideth in darkness, the living link that uniteth God with man, that assureth the progress of every illumined soul. Love is the most great law that ruleth this mighty and heavenly cycle, the unique power that bindeth together the divers elements of this material world, the supreme magnetic force that directeth the movements of the spheres in the celestial realms. Love revealeth with unfailing and limitless power the mysteries latent in the universe. Love is the spirit of life unto the adorned body of mankind, the establisher of true civilization in this mortal world, and the shedder of imperishable glory upon every high-aiming race and nation."
'Abdu'l-Baha
"We love Him because He first loved us." 1 John 4:9-10
"O Son of Man! Veiled in My immemorial being, and in the ancient eternity of My essence, I knew my love for thee; therefore I created thee, have engraved on thee Mine image, and revealed to thee My beauty." Baha'u'llah
"For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another." 1 John 3:11
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