Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
When love is pure, it has the power to conquer. Lover and beloved conquer each other by their affection. The source, the essence, the fullest manifestation of love's conquering power is the love of the soul for the supreme soul, or God.
Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.
Love is itself an expression of strength.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Love is the outreach of self toward completion.
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.
Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
Is not general incivility the very essence of love?