what is it that you love?

 

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To be conscious of oneself right to the core is to perceive, at the depths of the self, an Other. This is prayer: to be conscious of oneself to the very center, to the point of meeting an Other. 

Thus prayer is the only human gesture which totally realizes the human being’s stature.


—Luigi Giussani

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It is natural and good to love oneself. 

Only, you should know exactly what it is that you love. 

It is not the body that you love, it is Life: perceiving, feeling, thinking, doing, loving, striving, creating. It is that Life you love, which is you, which is all. 

Realize it in its totality, beyond all divisions and limitations, and all your desires will merge in it, for the greater contains the smaller. 

Therefore find yourself, for in finding that you find all. 
Every person is glad to be. But few know the fullness of it. 

You come to know by dwelling in your mind on “I am,” “I know,” “I love” - with the will of reaching the deepest meaning of these words.


—Nisargadatta Maharaj
I Am That

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The Greeks understood the mysterious power of the hidden side of things. They bequeathed to us one of the most beautiful words in our language—the word ‘enthusiasm’—en theos—a god within. 

The grandeur of human actions is measured by the inspiration from which they spring. 

Happy is he who bears a god within, and who obeys it.


—Louis Pasteur

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