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.
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods; desired by those who have no part in him, and precious to those who have the better part in him.
I think it's wonderful when a love story begins with a great deal of romance and affection, passion and excitement, that's how it should be. But I don't necessarily know that it's the wisest thing in the world to expect that it ends there, or that it should, 30 years down the road, still look as it did on the night of your first kiss.
We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.
tell me how does it feel with my teeth in your heart!
I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.
I think I fall into the category of the hopeless romantic, and I think youdo too, because you're here...The tricky thing about us, the hopeless romantic, is when we fall in love with someone, when we say hello—and it’s magical—we never imagine that hello can turn into a goodbye. And when we kiss someone—and it’s magical—we never ever imagine that it can turn into a last kiss.
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