Feelings and emotions are only the creation of mind and energy. Love is the creation of the soul.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that feelings stem from our mental and energetic processes, while love transcends these and originates from the deeper essence of the soul.
Meher Baba emphasizes the distinction between transient feelings and the profound nature of love. He asserts that while our emotions and feelings are products of our mind and energetic state, true love is a deeper, spiritual creation that comes from the soul, suggesting that love is a fundamental and enduring force that connects us beyond our fleeting emotional states.
In practice
During a speech on relationships, one could quote this to highlight the different layers of human connection.
The experiences are so innumerable and varied, that the journey appears to be interminable and the Destination is ever out of sight. But the wonder of it is, when at last you reach your Destination you find that you had never travelled at all! It was a journey from here to Here.
Love has to spring spontaneously from within And it is no way amenable to any form of inner or outer force. Love and coercion can never go together; But though love cannot be forced on anyone, It can be awakened in him through love itself. Love is essentially self communicative; Those who do not have it catch it from those who have it. True love is unconquerable and irresistible, And it goes on gathering power and spreading itself, Until eventually it transforms everyone whom it touches.
Suffering is essential for the elimination of the ego, just as it was necessary for you to scrub and scrub in order to wash the stain from my coat.
There is no greater romance in life than this adventure in realization.
What I want from my lovers is real, unadulterated love, and from my genuine workers I expect real work done.
Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others. Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving. So learn to love and give, and not to expect anything from others.
My body, plowed by your body, will turn into a field where one is sown and a hundred reaped.
It is in deep solitude and silence that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brother and sister.
LOVE and LOVER live in Eternity. _x000D_ Other desires are substitutes _x000D_ for that way of being.
I was so sentimental about you I'd break any one's heart for you. My, I was a damned fool. I broke my own heart, too. It's broken and gone. Everything I believe in and everything I cared about I left for you because you were so wonderful and you loved me so much that love was all that mattered. Love was the greatest thing, wasn't it?
His love for my mother wasn't about looking back and loving something that would never change. It was about loving my mother for everything -- for her brokenness and her fleeing, for her being there right then in that moment before the sun rose and the hospital staff came in. It was about touching that hair with the side of his fingertip, and knowing yet plumbing fearlessly the depths of her ocean eyes.
Love is the motivating principle by which the Lord leads us along the way towards becoming like Him, our perfect example. Our way of life, hour by hour, must be filled with the love of God and love for others.
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