. . . and its expressions.

Summer is the energetic season associated with the element of Fire and the heart organ (the king of all organs) according to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Now is the time to build all our loving relationships because the season especially energetically supports it at this time of year. Sample and savor the following compelling classic passages on love:

• Perhaps you think that different kinds of love are possible. Perhaps you think there is a kind of love for this, a kind for that; a way of loving one, another way of loving still another. Love is one. It has no separate parts and no degrees; no kinds nor levels, no divergencies and no distinctions. It is like itself, unchanged throughout. It never alters with a person or a circumstance from A Course In Miracles

In the state of love, no matter what you do, its going to be good.  Parmahansa Yogananda

• The Tree of Life is located in the very depth of our soul. The most perfect and abundant fruit that grows and ripens is life-giving Love; it is the great healing force in the world. Love never fails to meet every demand of the human heart. The Divine principal of Love may be used to eliminate every sorrow, infirmity, in-harmony, ignorance and all mistakes of mankind. Love is God; eternal, limitless, changeless, infinite. It is the pulse of the world, the heartbeat of the Universe.  Baird T. Spalding from Life and Teachings of the Masters of the Far East

A relationship starting out as one that awakens love can only remain a living vehicle for love to the extent that it is continually made new or reconsecrated. Ram Dass from Be Here, Now

• Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving. Osho

Go ahead and do what you really love to do! Do nothing else! You have so little time. How can you think of wasting a moment doing something for a living you don’t like to do? What kind of a living is that? That is not a living, that is a dying!  from Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsch

• You haven’t yet opened your heart fully, to life, to each moment. The peaceful warrior’s way is not about invulnerability, but absolute vulnerability–to the world, to life, and to the Presence you felt. All along I’ve shown you by example that a warrior’s life is not about imagined perfection or victory; it is about love. Love is a warrior’s sword; wherever it cuts, it gives life, not death. Dan Millman in Way of the Peaceful Warrior

Love is the essence of the Cosmos. Living, thinking, with an advanced intellect. It is powerful, and it’s no wonder God was so excited about it, giving its great energy as a gift to Man. It is imperative to try to understand love, and not be shy about paying attention to it even on the national level. And when the nation is comprised of a multitude of families giving birth to their children in love and creating a Space of Love, it will not suffer from lawlessness or inflation. Such a nation will have no need to fight against criminal tendencies; they will disappear from society. And all the prophets with their cunning philosophizing will be silenced. Whether they foolishly neglected to mention it or whether it was simply beyond their comprehension is unimportant, but they led people away from the most important thing to a place where there is no love.  Vladimir Megre, from Rites of Love, from the Ringing Cedar Series,Book 8

• Love is the greatest and most powerful energy in the Cosmos. It is never thoughtless. It has thoughts and its own feelings too. Love is a living, self-sufficient entity, a living being. By the will of God it is sent to the Earth, ready to bestow its great energy on every Earth-dweller and make their lives eternal in love. It comes to each one of them, endeavoring to tell them, through the language of feelings, about the Divine Program. If Man doesn’t listen, it is forced to leave, not by its own will but by Man’s. – Vladimir Megre, from Rites of Love, from the Ringing Cedar Series, Book 8