SESSION 5 - LOVE .......... 15 - By Lester Levenson
セッション5 - 愛..........15 - 最終自由の鍵 (究極の自由への鍵)
SESSION 5
LOVE
Human love is that which most people think love is.
Real, divine love, however, is a constant, persistent
acceptance of all beings in the universe, fully, wholly,
totally, - as the other beings are, and loving them
because they are the way they are. Divine love is
wanting and allowing the other one to be the way the
other one wants to be. Divine love is seeing and
accepting everyone equally, and I think that this is the
test of how divine our love is. Is it the same for every
person we meet? Is our love for those who are opposing
us as strong as for those who are supporting us?
Real, divine love is unconditional and is for everyone
alike. The greatest example of it is Christ with His
teachings of: turn the other cheek, love your enemy, and
so forth. If we as a nation were to practice this we could
make every enemy of ours completely impotent, - just by
loving them. They would be powerless to do any harm to
us. However, we would have to do it as a nation, at least
the majority of the people would have to love the enemy.
Real love itself is something we can't turn on and off.
Either we have it or we don't have it, and with it, it's
impossible to love one person and hate another. To the
degree that we hate anyone, to that degree we do not
love the others. Our love is no greater than our hatred is
for anyone person.
What most people call love is simply a need. If we say
that I love this person but not the other, we feel that we
need this person, and therefore we'll be nice to this
person so that we can get what we want. But that's not
real love.
Human love is selfish, divine love is completely selfless.
It is the selfless love that gives unlimited joy beyond our
greatest imagination. Try it and discover this for yourself.
***
The real love is the love we feel for others. It is
determined by how much we give ourselves to others.
***
Full love is identifying with every other being.
***
When we identify with everyone, we treat everyone as
we would treat ourselves.
***
Love is the balm, the salve, that soothes and heals
everything and all.
***
When you love you lift others to love.
***
The most you can give is your love. It is greater than
giving materiality.
***
When you understand people you see that they are
doing right in their own eyes. When you understand, you
allow, you accept. If you understand, you love.
***
When we love, not only are we happy but also our whole
life is in harmony.
***
Happiness is equal to one's capacity to love.
***
If we love completely, we are perfectly happy.
***
There is always either love or the lack of it.
***
When one is not loving, one is doing the opposite.
***
The highest love is when you become the other one.
Identity is love in its highest form.
***
If you love your enemy you have no more enemies!
***
The power and effect of love is self-obvious. Just try it!
***
If you will look at it from your very own center the words
love, acceptance, identification, understanding,
communication, truth, God, Self are all the same.
***
The original state of man was all love. His troubles are
due only to his covering over of his natural state of love.
***
Love and discover that selflessness turns out to be the
greatest good for yourself. .
***
Love is effortless and hate requires much effort.
***
Apply love and every problem resolves.
***
Human love is needing the other one. Divine love is
giving to the other one.
***
Love equals happiness. When we are not happy~ we
are not loving.
***
The concept of possessiveness is just the opposite of
the meaning of love. Love frees” possessiveness
enslaves.
***
Love is a feeling of oneness with, of identity with, the
other one. When there's a full love you feel yourself as
the other person. Then treating the other person is just
like treating your very own self. You delight in the other
one's joy.
***
Love is a tremendous power. One discovers that the
power behind love, without question, is far more
powerful than the hydrogen bomb.
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**
One individual with nothing but love can stand up
against the entire world because this love is so powerful.
This love is nothing but the Self. This love is God.
***
Love will give not only all the power in the universe, it
will give all the joy and all the knowledge.
***
The best way to increase our capacity to love is through
understanding ourselves.
***
I think everyone knows the wonderful experience of loving one person, so you can imagine what it's like when
you love three billion people. It would be three billion
times more enjoyable.
***
Love is a constant attitude that evolves in us when we
develop it. We should try practicing the love first on our
family. Grant everyone in the family their own
beingness. Then apply it to friends, then strangers, then
everyone.
***
The more we practice love the more we love, and the
more we love, the more we can practice love. Love
begets love!
***
The more we develop love, the more we come in touch
with the harmony of the universe, the more delightful our
life becomes, the more beautiful, the more everything. It
starts a cycle going in which you spin upwards.
***
The only method of receiving love is to give love, because what we give out must come back.
***
The easiest thing in the universe to do is to love everyone. That is, once we learn what love is, it's the easiest
thing to do. It takes tremendous effort not to love
everyone and you see the effort being expended in
everyday life. But when we love we're at one with all.
We're at peace and everything falls into line perfectly.
***
In the higher spiritual love, there's no self-deprivation.
We don't have to hurt ourselves when we love everyone,
and we don't.
***
With love there's a feeling of mutuality. That which is
mutual is correct. If you love, you hold to that law.
***
Love is smothered by wrong attitudes. Love is our basic
nature and a natural thing. That's why it is so easy. The
opposite takes effort. We move away from our natural
self, cover it, smother it with concepts of the opposite of
love and then, because we're not loving, unloving comes
back at us.
***
We feel the greatest when we love.
***
The real love wins the universe, not just one person, but
everyone in the universe.
***
Behind the concepts of non-love, there is always the
infinite love that we are. You can't increase it. All you
can do is peel away the concepts of non-love and hatred
so that this tremendous loving Being that we are is not
hidden any more.
***
Love is an absolutely necessary ingredient on the path.
If we ever expect to get full Realization, we must
increase our love until it is complete.
***
When you really love you can never feel parting. There
is no distance, because they're right in your heart.
***
Only through growth do we really understand what love
is.
***
When you really love you understand the other one fully.
***
Love is an attitude that is constant. Love doesn't vary.
Love cannot be chopped up.
***
All love, including human love, has its source in divine
love.
***
Every human being is basically an extremely loving
individual.
***
When you love, you think only the best for those you
love.
***
The more you love, the more you understand.
***
There's one word that will distinguish the right love from
the wrong love, and that is giving.
***
You could hug a tree the same way as a person when
you are very high. Your love permeates everything.
***
Total self-abnegation is the most selfish thing we can
do. When self-abnegation is total we think only of others
and are automatically in the Self.
***
Love is the state of the Self. It is something you are.
***
Consideration is a necessary part of love.
***
Anything but full love is, to a degree, hate.
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*
Can you see why you can't be against anything? The
ant is God, the enemy is God. If you're limiting any part,
you're holding God away. Love cannot be parceled.
Love has to be for all.
***
The greatest of all progress is love.
***
Your capacity to love is determined by your
understanding.
***
If you don’t trust someone, you don’t love him fully.
***
If we love this world we accept the world the way it is.
We don't try to change it. We let it be. We grant the
world its beingness. Trying to change others is injecting
our own ego.
***
The more we love the less we have to think.
***
Being love is higher than loving. The real devotee of
God has no choice but to love, he is love.
***
Love is your Self. That is the highest love.
***
Love is an attitude that is constant. Love doesn't vary.
We love our family as much as we love strangers. To
the degree we're capable of loving strangers; to that
degree we're capable of loving our family.
***
Love is togetherness.
***
Love is the Self. The Self doesn't love. The Self is love.
(Only in duality can you love.)
***
It's not loving, it's being love that will get you to God.
***
Love: Each one glorifies himself by service rendered to
others and must, therefore, necessarily receive from
others. Thus God flows back and forth and we delight in
His exoticism. There is nothing so delectable as the
spirit of givingness. It is intoxicating beyond any other
experience capable to man. Discover this.
Service is the secret to bathing in the ever-new joy of
God. Service opens the doors to the greatest fields of
beauty and charm, wherein is enjoyed the nectars of the
infinite variety of tastes, all blended into one drink, that
of superlative love.
Come into the garden of the most delicious and
everlasting joy by an everlasting desire to love and
serve. Let go of the emptiness of selfishness. Fill
yourself to the full with selfless love.
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セッション5 - 愛..........15 - 最終自由の鍵 (究極の自由への鍵)
SESSION 5
LOVE
Human love is that which most people think love is.
Real, divine love, however, is a constant, persistent
acceptance of all beings in the universe, fully, wholly,
totally, - as the other beings are, and loving them
because they are the way they are. Divine love is
wanting and allowing the other one to be the way the
other one wants to be. Divine love is seeing and
accepting everyone equally, and I think that this is the
test of how divine our love is. Is it the same for every
person we meet? Is our love for those who are opposing
us as strong as for those who are supporting us?
Real, divine love is unconditional and is for everyone
alike. The greatest example of it is Christ with His
teachings of: turn the other cheek, love your enemy, and
so forth. If we as a nation were to practice this we could
make every enemy of ours completely impotent, - just by
loving them. They would be powerless to do any harm to
us. However, we would have to do it as a nation, at least
the majority of the people would have to love the enemy.
Real love itself is something we can't turn on and off.
Either we have it or we don't have it, and with it, it's
impossible to love one person and hate another. To the
degree that we hate anyone, to that degree we do not
love the others. Our love is no greater than our hatred is
for anyone person.
What most people call love is simply a need. If we say
that I love this person but not the other, we feel that we
need this person, and therefore we'll be nice to this
person so that we can get what we want. But that's not
real love.
Human love is selfish, divine love is completely selfless.
It is the selfless love that gives unlimited joy beyond our
greatest imagination. Try it and discover this for yourself.
***
The real love is the love we feel for others. It is
determined by how much we give ourselves to others.
***
Full love is identifying with every other being.
***
When we identify with everyone, we treat everyone as
we would treat ourselves.
***
Love is the balm, the salve, that soothes and heals
everything and all.
***
When you love you lift others to love.
***
The most you can give is your love. It is greater than
giving materiality.
***
When you understand people you see that they are
doing right in their own eyes. When you understand, you
allow, you accept. If you understand, you love.
***
When we love, not only are we happy but also our whole
life is in harmony.
***
Happiness is equal to one's capacity to love.
***
If we love completely, we are perfectly happy.
***
There is always either love or the lack of it.
***
When one is not loving, one is doing the opposite.
***
The highest love is when you become the other one.
Identity is love in its highest form.
***
If you love your enemy you have no more enemies!
***
The power and effect of love is self-obvious. Just try it!
***
If you will look at it from your very own center the words
love, acceptance, identification, understanding,
communication, truth, God, Self are all the same.
***
The original state of man was all love. His troubles are
due only to his covering over of his natural state of love.
***
Love and discover that selflessness turns out to be the
greatest good for yourself. .
***
Love is effortless and hate requires much effort.
***
Apply love and every problem resolves.
***
Human love is needing the other one. Divine love is
giving to the other one.
***
Love equals happiness. When we are not happy~ we
are not loving.
***
The concept of possessiveness is just the opposite of
the meaning of love. Love frees” possessiveness
enslaves.
***
Love is a feeling of oneness with, of identity with, the
other one. When there's a full love you feel yourself as
the other person. Then treating the other person is just
like treating your very own self. You delight in the other
one's joy.
***
Love is a tremendous power. One discovers that the
power behind love, without question, is far more
powerful than the hydrogen bomb.
- 15 -
**
One individual with nothing but love can stand up
against the entire world because this love is so powerful.
This love is nothing but the Self. This love is God.
***
Love will give not only all the power in the universe, it
will give all the joy and all the knowledge.
***
The best way to increase our capacity to love is through
understanding ourselves.
***
I think everyone knows the wonderful experience of loving one person, so you can imagine what it's like when
you love three billion people. It would be three billion
times more enjoyable.
***
Love is a constant attitude that evolves in us when we
develop it. We should try practicing the love first on our
family. Grant everyone in the family their own
beingness. Then apply it to friends, then strangers, then
everyone.
***
The more we practice love the more we love, and the
more we love, the more we can practice love. Love
begets love!
***
The more we develop love, the more we come in touch
with the harmony of the universe, the more delightful our
life becomes, the more beautiful, the more everything. It
starts a cycle going in which you spin upwards.
***
The only method of receiving love is to give love, because what we give out must come back.
***
The easiest thing in the universe to do is to love everyone. That is, once we learn what love is, it's the easiest
thing to do. It takes tremendous effort not to love
everyone and you see the effort being expended in
everyday life. But when we love we're at one with all.
We're at peace and everything falls into line perfectly.
***
In the higher spiritual love, there's no self-deprivation.
We don't have to hurt ourselves when we love everyone,
and we don't.
***
With love there's a feeling of mutuality. That which is
mutual is correct. If you love, you hold to that law.
***
Love is smothered by wrong attitudes. Love is our basic
nature and a natural thing. That's why it is so easy. The
opposite takes effort. We move away from our natural
self, cover it, smother it with concepts of the opposite of
love and then, because we're not loving, unloving comes
back at us.
***
We feel the greatest when we love.
***
The real love wins the universe, not just one person, but
everyone in the universe.
***
Behind the concepts of non-love, there is always the
infinite love that we are. You can't increase it. All you
can do is peel away the concepts of non-love and hatred
so that this tremendous loving Being that we are is not
hidden any more.
***
Love is an absolutely necessary ingredient on the path.
If we ever expect to get full Realization, we must
increase our love until it is complete.
***
When you really love you can never feel parting. There
is no distance, because they're right in your heart.
***
Only through growth do we really understand what love
is.
***
When you really love you understand the other one fully.
***
Love is an attitude that is constant. Love doesn't vary.
Love cannot be chopped up.
***
All love, including human love, has its source in divine
love.
***
Every human being is basically an extremely loving
individual.
***
When you love, you think only the best for those you
love.
***
The more you love, the more you understand.
***
There's one word that will distinguish the right love from
the wrong love, and that is giving.
***
You could hug a tree the same way as a person when
you are very high. Your love permeates everything.
***
Total self-abnegation is the most selfish thing we can
do. When self-abnegation is total we think only of others
and are automatically in the Self.
***
Love is the state of the Self. It is something you are.
***
Consideration is a necessary part of love.
***
Anything but full love is, to a degree, hate.
- 16 -
*
Can you see why you can't be against anything? The
ant is God, the enemy is God. If you're limiting any part,
you're holding God away. Love cannot be parceled.
Love has to be for all.
***
The greatest of all progress is love.
***
Your capacity to love is determined by your
understanding.
***
If you don’t trust someone, you don’t love him fully.
***
If we love this world we accept the world the way it is.
We don't try to change it. We let it be. We grant the
world its beingness. Trying to change others is injecting
our own ego.
***
The more we love the less we have to think.
***
Being love is higher than loving. The real devotee of
God has no choice but to love, he is love.
***
Love is your Self. That is the highest love.
***
Love is an attitude that is constant. Love doesn't vary.
We love our family as much as we love strangers. To
the degree we're capable of loving strangers; to that
degree we're capable of loving our family.
***
Love is togetherness.
***
Love is the Self. The Self doesn't love. The Self is love.
(Only in duality can you love.)
***
It's not loving, it's being love that will get you to God.
***
Love: Each one glorifies himself by service rendered to
others and must, therefore, necessarily receive from
others. Thus God flows back and forth and we delight in
His exoticism. There is nothing so delectable as the
spirit of givingness. It is intoxicating beyond any other
experience capable to man. Discover this.
Service is the secret to bathing in the ever-new joy of
God. Service opens the doors to the greatest fields of
beauty and charm, wherein is enjoyed the nectars of the
infinite variety of tastes, all blended into one drink, that
of superlative love.
Come into the garden of the most delicious and
everlasting joy by an everlasting desire to love and
serve. Let go of the emptiness of selfishness. Fill
yourself to the full with selfless love.
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