"There
is a Law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred
years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright
gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish."
-- Alfred Adler
"Love is the only
force capable of turning an enemy into a friend."
-- Martin Luther
King, Jr.
Can
one have love? If we could, love would need to be a thing, a substance
that one can have, own, possess. The truth is, there is no such thing
as "love." "Love" is an abstraction, perhaps a goddess or an alien being,
although nobody has ever seen this goddess. In reality, there exists
only the act of loving. To love is a productive activity. It implies
caring for, knowing, responding, affirming, enjoying: the person, the
tree, the painting, the idea. It means bringing to life, increasing
his/her/its aliveness. It is a process, self-renewing and self increasing.
-- Erich Fromm
"Whether
humanity will consciously follow the law of love, I do not know. But
that need not disturb me. The law will work just as the law of gravitation
works, whether we accept it or not. The person who discovered the law
of love was a far greater scientist than any of our modern scientists.
Only our explorations have not gone far enough and so it is not possible
for everyone to see all its workings."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
Love
is the most powerful and still most unknown energy in the world.
-- Pierre Teilhard
de Chardin
Love
alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them...
for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need
is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality
of men and the earth.
-- Pierre Teilhard
de Chardin
Love
is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world...
Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.
-- Pierre Teilhard
de Chardin