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Love is like a flame that changes what is hard into something malleable and even sublimates this malleable thing into a kind of purified vapour—it does not destroy, it transforms. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-49#p11</ref>
 
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Love is one of the great universal forces; it exists by itself and its movement is free and independent of the objects in which and through which it manifests.
What you call love and think of as a personal or individual thing is only your capacity to receive and manifest this universal force.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/2-june-1929#p2</ref>
 
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Love is universal and eternal; it is always manifesting itself and always identical in its essence. Love does not manifest in human beings alone; it is everywhere. Its movement is there in plants, perhaps in the very stones; in the animals it is easy to detect its presence. Love, the eternal force, has no clinging, no desire, no hunger for possession, no self-regarding attachment; it is, in its pure movement, the seeking for union of the self with the Divine, a seeking absolute and regardless of all other things. What human beings have made of it, we do not need to say; they have turned it into an ugly and repulsive thing. And yet even in human beings the first contact of love does bring down something of its purer substance; they become capable for a moment of forgetting themselves, for a moment its divine touch awakens and magnifies all that is fine and beautiful. But afterwards there comes to the surface the human nature, full of its impure demands, asking for something in exchange, bartering what it gives, clamouring for its own inferior satisfactions, distorting and soiling what was divine. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/2-june-1929#p3</ref>
<center>~</center> When Consciousness separated from its Origin and became Inconscience, the Origin emanated Love to reawaken Consciousness from the depths of the Inconscience and bring it back into touch with its Origin.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/divine-love#p20</ref>
<center>~</center> The material world in its darkness and ignorance had forgotten the Divine. Love came into the darkness; it awakened all that lay there asleep; it whispered, opening the ears that were sealed: 'There is something worth waking to, worth living for, and it is love!' And with the awakening to love there entered into the world the possibility of coming back to the Divine. The creation moves upward through love towards the Divine and in answer there leans downward to meet the creation the Divine Love and Grace.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/26-august-1953#p1</ref>
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It has even been said that creation itself was an act of love or at least the building up of a field in which Divine Love could devise its symbols and fulfil itself in act of mutuality and self-giving, and, if not the initial nature of creation, this may well be its ultimate object and motive. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-ascent-of-the-sacrifice-ii#p10</ref>
 
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The higher Consciousness is a state of pure love but it is also a state of pure openness to divine knowledge.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/19-october-1939#p3</ref>
<center>~</center> Love is a supreme force which the Eternal Consciousness sent down from itself into an obscure and darkened world that it might bring back that world and its beings to the Divine. Love came into the darkness; it awakened all that lay there asleep; it whispered, opening the ears that were sealed, "There is something that is worth waking to, worth living for, and it is love!" This human movement of love is secretly seeking for something else than what it has yet found; but it does not know where to find it, it does not even know what it is.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/2-june-1929#p11</ref> <center>~</center>
The lover of Nature does this when he takes joy in all the things of Nature universally without admitting repulsion or fear or mere liking and disliking, perceiving beauty in that which seems to others mean and insignificant, bare and savage, terrible and repellent. The artist and the poet do it when they seek the rasa of the universal from the aesthetic emotion or from the physical line or from the mental form of beauty or from the inner sense and power alike of that from which the ordinary man turns away and of that to which he is attached by a sense of pleasure. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/the-double-soul-in-man#p9</ref>
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-gnostic-being#p21</ref>
<center>~</center> Nature took up this sublime force of love and put it at the service of her creative work by linking and mixing it with her movement of procreation.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/the-four-austerities-and-the-four-liberations#p72</ref>
<center>~</center> In its essence, in its origin, love is like a flame, a white flame which overcomes all resistance. You can experience this yourself: whatever the difficulty in your being, whatever the burden of accumulated error, ignorance, incapacity and bad will, a single second of this pure, essential, supreme love dissolves it as in an all-powerful flame; a single moment and a whole past can disappear; a single instant in which you touch it in its essence and a whole burden is consumed.[Based on Aphorism 49- To feel and love the God of beauty and good in the ugly and the evil, and still yearn in utter love to heal it of its ugliness and its evil, this is real virtue and morality.]
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-49#p12</ref>
 
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It is for the facility of the language that you say the love of this one or that one, but it is all the same one Love manifested through different channels. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/divine-love-and-human-love#p58</ref>