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. . . Such is the Law which moves to righteousness,
Which none at last can turn aside or stay;
The heart of it is Love, the end of it
Is peace, consummation sweet. Obey! . . .
. . . love would be a mockery, if it did
not last beyond the grave . . .
Maurice Maeterlinck
The Treasure of the Humble
Perhaps [human beings] do not yet know what
the words "to love" means . . . It is a thing that lies a thousand fathoms
deeper, where our softest, swiftest, strongest words cannot reach it.
At moments we might believe it to be a recollection, furtive but excessively
keen, of the great primitive unity . . . . The souls of all our brethren
are ever hovering about us, craving for a caress, and only waiting for
the signal.
Robert Frost
Birches
. . . Earth's the right place for love:
I don't know where it's likely to go better.
Raymond A. Moody, Jr.
Life after Life
. . . the light . . . was a being, a being
of light . . . a personal being. It has a definite personality.
The love and the warmth which emanate from this being to the dying person
are utterly beyond words, and he feels completely surrounded by it and
taken up in it . . .
John Ellis McTaggart
Some Dogmas of Religion
. . . if memory does not survive death,
it will be impossible for love to occur in any life in which people do
not meet . . . the probability of meeting friends in another life would
be too small to be regarded . . .
Ghandi
Letters
. . . I cannot think of permanent enmity
between man and man, and believing as I do in the theory of rebirth, I
live in the hope that if not in this birth, in some other birth I shall
be able to hug all humanity in friendly embrace.
William Q. Judge
The Ocean of Theosophy
Love, the master of life, if real, pure,
and deep will sometimes cause the happy ego in devachan to affect those
left on earth for their good . . .
H. P. Blavatsky
. . . Pure divine love is not merely the
blossom of a human heart, but has its roots in eternity . . . Love beyond
the grave, illusion though you may call it, has a magic . . . potency which
reacts on the living. A mother's ego filled with love for the imaginary
children it sees near itself [in devachan], living a life of happiness,
as real to it as when on earth --that love will always be felt by the children
in flesh. It will manifest in their dreams, and often in various
events --in providential protections and escapes, for love is a strong
shield, and is not limited by space or time . . . and karma brings sooner
or later all those who loved each other with such a spiritual affection
to incarnate once more in the same family group.
Roshi Philip Kapleau
The Wheel of Life and Death
If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come. --Chinese Proverb
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else: you are the one who gets burned. --Buddha
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