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Vol. 11, Mysticism in Life
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11. Love
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Eternal Love
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Vol. 11, Mysticism in Life
11. Love
Eternal Love
The one who says, "I love someone, but I hate someone else," does not know what love means. How can one who loves hate? It is impossible. The heart that is tuned to love is incapable of hate, it cannot hate. If it is capable of hate it cannot love, it has never loved. The person who says that he did love his friend once, but that he no longer loves him, has never known the light of love, real love. Love is living and therefore growing; love is growing and therefore expanding; there is no limit to the expansion of love, for its source is divine and thus its expansion is perfect.
Passions that arise in their various aspects are like smoke; it is affection, it is emotion which is the glow of love, and devotion is the flame that rises out of love, that lightens the path of the seeker. As God is eternal, so love is eternal.
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