Quotations on the Way of Love

The way of love

The Way of Love - quotations - Galleria Garden Rose

The way of love is slower, but more certain than the way of denial. Robert Burton

When we have attained love, we have reached God, and our journey is over.  Philokalia

Where there is love, there is Oneness and, in complete Oneness, the Infinite is realized completely at all times and in every sphere of life, be it science, art, religion, or beauty. Meher Baba

Love begins in two ways – by remembering ourselves and by forgetting ourselves.  Rodney Collin

If you want to be loved, love. Seneca

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. Aristotle

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth.  Apostle Paul

Conscious love always aims at being present to the highestJohann von Goethe

There is a courtesy of the heart that is akin to love. Goethe

True love is as rare as a double lotus. Chinese Proverb

Love is a conscious phenomenon.        Peter Ouspensky

Practice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively.  G. I. Gurdjieff

Love is the greatest warrior and the gentlest of friends. Alex Horn, student of John Pentland

We pursue more eagerly all that strengthens love.  Bernard of Clairvaux

Blind love is the highest kind of love, and it alone enables us to transcend the limits set by the intellect and thus experience the ‘divine delight’ at which the mystic aims. Pico della Mirandola

He is not a lover who does not love forever.  Euripides

For more on love from a Fourth Way context, see: https://www.gurdjieff.org/bragdon2.htm.

For additional quotations on work in the Fourth Way, see our recent issues, such as: https://fourthwaytoday.org/the-line-of-being/.

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