“There is a region beyond reason. Unless you get there, you will not know the sweetness of love, nor the Divine.”
~ Sadhguru

“To love is to recognize yourself in another. The “otherness” then stands revealed as an illusion pertaining to the purely human realm, the realm of form.
Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.”
~ Eckhart Tolle

“Love is not a feeling. Love is the experience that others are not others.
Love is the natural condition of all experience before thought has divided it into a multiplicity and diversity of objects, selves and others.
We consider love to be a relationship. We consider love to be a feeling that takes place between two people. Love is not a relationship. It is the collapse of relationship. In the experience of love, the self and the other dissolve. Love is the dissolution of the apparent separation between self and other, and a revelation of the prior unity of these two apparently separate selves. So love is not an experience that the separate self has. It is the dissolution of the separate self, the revelation of reality, the revelation of consciousness. Consciousness is love.”
~ Rupert Spira

“Love is not a relationship, love is a state of being; it has nothing to do with anybody else. One is not “in love”, one is love.
Millions of people are suffering: they want to be loved, but they don’t know how to love. And love cannot exist as a monologue; it is a dialogue, a very harmonious dialogue.”
~ Osho

“Most people are unhappy; and they are unhappy because there is no love in their hearts. Love will arise in your heart when you have no barrier between yourself and another, when you meet and observe people without judging them, when you just see the sailboat on the river and enjoy the beauty of it. Don’t let your prejudices cloud your observation of things as they are; just observe, and you will discover that out of this simple observation, out of this awareness of trees, of birds, of people walking, working, smiling, something happens to you inside. Without this extraordinary thing happening to you, without the arising of love in your heart, life has very little meaning.”
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

“The universe only pretends to be made out of matter. Secretly, it is made out of love.”
~ Daniel Pinchbeck

“Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.”
~ Rabindranath Tagore

“Love is not an emotion. It is your very existence.
In true love there is no heartbreak. A broken heart means broken demands, broken expectations, broken hopes.”
~ Ravi Shankar

“We’re all looking for love, in our confusion, until we find our way back to the realization that love is what we already are. Your true nature is love.
Life is love. All else is imagined confusion.
There is no one who doesn’t live in love. There are few who realize it.”
~ Byron Katie

“Upon discovering truth, the natural love one has for oneself expands until it encompasses the whole world.”
~ Mooji

“In dream you love some and not others. On waking up you find you are love itself embracing all.
When you know beyond all doubting that the same life flows through all that is, and you are that life, you will love all naturally and spontaneously.
I cannot but see you as myself. It is in the very nature of love to see no difference.”
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Love is verily the heart of all religions.
Love itself is the actual form of God.”
~ Ramana Maharshi

“You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.”
~ Jesus

“Love doesn’t leave anybody out. Until your compassion is big enough to include those who oppose you, you are simply contributing to the continuation of destructiveness. The end of separation is the salvation for all.”
~ Adyashanti

“Ordinary love is selfish, darkly rooted in desires and satisfactions. Divine love is without condition, without boundary, without change. The flux of the human heart is gone forever at the transfixing touch of pure love.”
~ Yukteswar Giri

“The ordinary human being does not know what love is. When somebody gives you pleasure, you tend to think you love that person. But in reality it is yourself you love – your ego has been pleased by the other person’s attention; that is all. Would you go on ‘loving’ that person if he/she should cease to give you pleasure?
Love gives without expecting anything in return.”
~ Paramahansa Yogananda

“It is possible to live twenty-four hours a day in a state of love. Every movement, every glance, every thought, and every word can be infused with love.
We all have the seeds of love in us. We can develop this wonderful source of energy, nurturing the unconditional love that does not expect anything in return. When we understand someone deeply, even someone who has done us harm, we cannot resist loving him or her.
Happiness is only possible with true love.”
~ Thích Nhất Hạnh

“I belong to no religion. My religion is love. Every heart is my temple.
There comes a time when nothing is meaningful except surrendering to love.
For love, I come to you without me, come to me without you.
There is no love greater than love with no object. For then you, yourself, have become love, itself.
Except for love, nothing you see will remain forever.”
~ Rumi

“Love has nothing to do with another person. Love is Truth. Love is Beauty. Love is Self. To know yourself, to surrender to the truth of yourself, is to surrender to love.
The love that you search for everywhere is already present within you. It may be evoked by any number of people or events. But finally, you must realize you are this love. The source of all love is within you.
True forgiveness and love arise naturally, effortlessly, from the silence of the heart.
Finally all that is trustworthy is this immeasurable silent awareness that is the truth of who you are, that is love.”
~ Gangaji

„When you really love someone, there’s no longer an ‘I’ or an ‘other’.”
~ Jean Klein

“Love is the absence of separation. I don’t love others. I am the others.
The sense of duality, which is a barrier to true love, must prevail so long as the apperception of truth has not occurred. Once individuality is surrendered, there is only total love.”
~ Ramesh Balsekar

“Love is not something that we ‘do’ – it is an effortless recognition, beyond the story of time and space, that I am already what you are.
Love is not a presence, but an absence, of separation, and the illusion that in our essence we are divided. Love is simply what we are, prior to the exhausting and seemingly endless search for it. No need to seek love – it is already here, closer than breathing.
Trying to fall in love is like trying to make your heart beat backwards. It can’t be done. And so we don’t fall in love; we simply notice that we are in love already, and always have been. We are all so deeply in love that we don’t realize it.
There are no conditions to love. And no end to its depths.
Love is the answer. The question is unimportant.”
~ Jeff Foster

“Everyone says love hurts, but that is not true. Loneliness hurts. Rejection hurts. Losing someone hurts. Envy hurts. Everyone gets these things confused with love, but in reality love is the only thing in this world that covers up all pain and makes someone feel wonderful again. Love is the only thing in this world that does not hurt.”
~ Liam Neeson

“Love is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of love, you really haven’t learned anything.”
~ Muhammad Ali

“It doesn’t matter who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it only matters that you love!”
~ John Lennon

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
~ Jimi Hendrix

“Love always wins in the end.”
~ Francis Lucille

Many thanks to Simon Bartholomé