The soul is made of love and must ever strive to return to love. Therefore, it can never find rest nor happiness in other things. It must lose itself in love. By its very nature it must seek God, who is love.
Interpretation
The essence of the soul is love, and true fulfillment lies in seeking love, particularly divine love.
This quote emphasizes the fundamental nature of the soul as being intertwined with love. It suggests that true happiness and peace cannot be found in worldly things but rather in a deep, selfless embrace of love, which it associates with the pursuit of God, who embodies love itself. The idea that the soul must 'lose itself in love' signifies a call to transcend individual desires in favor of universal and divine love.
In practice
During a wedding ceremony, one might quote this to emphasize the importance of love in marriage.
That prayer has great power which a person makes with all his might. It makes a sour heart sweet, a sad heart merry, a poor heart rich, a foolish heart wise, a timid heart brave, a sick heart well, a blind heart full of sight, a cold heart ardent. It draws down the great God into the little heart; it drives the hungry soul up into the fullness of God; it brings together two lovers, God and the soul, in a wondrous place where they speak much of love.
From suffering I have learned this: that whoever is sore wounded by love will never be made whole unless she embraces the very same love which wounded her.
The day of my spiritual awakening was the day I saw and knew I saw all things in God and God in all things.
A fish cannot drown in water,_x000D_ A bird does not fall in air._x000D_ In the fire of creation,_x000D_ God doesn't vanish:_x000D_ The fire brightens._x000D_ Each creature God made_x000D_ must live in its own true nature;_x000D_ How could I resist my nature,_x000D_ That lives for oneness with God?
It's so dreadful to have nothing to love - life is so empty - and there's nothing worse than emptiness.
Love transcends international boundaries. It heals the wounds of racial hatred, prejudice, bigotry and ignorance.
Ever since I first came here in 1963 to fight Henry Cooper, I have loved the people of England.
You can't touch love, but you can feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.
An eye is meant to see things. The soul is here for its own joy. A head has one use: For loving a true love. Feet: To chase after. Love is for vanishing into the sky. The mind, for learning what men have done and tried to do. Mysteries are not to be solved: The eye goes blind when it only wants to see why. A lover is always accused of something. But when he finds his love, whatever was lost in the looking comes back completely changed.
They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity.
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