The Lexicon
The heart qualities
Love
Love is the binding and creative power of the cosmos, the force that draws separate things into union and reveals them as never truly separate. In this lineage it is at once the highest human feeling and the deepest law of being: the energy by which the divine reaches toward us and by which we are returned to source. To love is to participate in the movement that holds reality together.
Carried by 45 teachers · across 8 traditions · 18 quotes
The teachers map love along its whole range. Empedocles makes it one of the two cosmic forces; the Christian mystics make it the measure of God and the ladder of ascent; the Sufis make it the only true religion; Christian Science declares that divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need. Across the streams, love is understood not as sentiment alone but as the active principle that heals, unifies, and creates.
In their words
I answer, the reason for loving God is God Himself; and the measure of love due to Him is immeasurable love.Bernard of Clairvaux
I follow the religion of Love: whatever way Love's camels take, that is my religion and my faith.Ibn Arabi
Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need.Mary Baker Eddy
A universal love is not only psychologically possible; it is the only complete and final way in which we are able to love.Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The course does not aim at teaching the meaning of love, for that is beyond what can be taught. It does aim at removing the blocks to the awareness of love's presence, which is your natural inheritance.Helen Schucman (A Course in Miracles)