Lester Levenson on Human & Divine Love
(from The Keys to Ultimate Freedom)
Human love is limited and yet is that which most people define as love. Real love, however, is a constant, persistent acceptance of all beings in the universe–fully, wholly, totally. It is acceptance of another as they are. In fact, it is loving them because they are the way they are.
Human love is controlling and restrictive. Divine love is wanting and allowing another one to be the way another one wants to be. Human love is judgemental and relative. Divine love is seeing and accepting everyone equally. In fact, this is the test of how divine our love is. Is it the same for every person we meet? Is our love for those who are opposing us as strong as for those who are supporting us?
Real, divine love is unconditional and is for everyone alike. The greatest example of unconditional love was modeled by Christ and His teachings: turn the other cheek, love your enemy, and so forth are perfect examples. In fact, if we as a nation were to practice these teachings, we could make every enemy of ours completely impotent. All we have to do is to love them. They would be powerless to do any harm to us. However, we would have to do it as a nation – at least the majority of the people would have to love the enemy.
Real love itself is something we can't turn on and off. Either we have it or we don't have it, and with it, it's impossible to love one person and hate another. To the degree that we hate anyone, to that degree we do not love the others. Our love is no greater than our hatred is for anyone person.
What most people call love is simply a need. If we say that I love this person but not the other, we feel that we need this person, and therefore we'll be nice to this person so that we can get what we want. But that's not real love.
Human love is selfish, divine love is completely selfless. It is the selfless love that gives unlimited joy beyond our greatest imagination. Try it and discover this for yourself.
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The real love is the love we feel for others. It is determined by how much we give ourselves to others.
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Full love is identifying with every other being.
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When we identify with everyone, we treat everyone as we would treat ourselves.
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Love is the balm, the salve, that soothes and heals everything and all.
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When you love you lift others to love.
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The most you can give is your love. It is greater than giving materiality.
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When you understand people you see that they are doing right in their own eyes. When you understand, you allow, you accept. If you understand, you love.
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When we love, not only are we happy but also our whole life is in harmony.
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Happiness is equal to one's capacity to love.
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If we love completely, we are perfectly happy.
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There is always either love or the lack of it.
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When one is not loving, one is doing the opposite.
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The highest love is when you become the other one. Identity is love in its highest form.
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If you love your enemy you have no more enemies!
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The power and effect of love is self-obvious. Just try it!
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If you will look at it from your very own center the words love, acceptance, identification, understanding, communication, truth, God, Self are all the same.
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The original state of man was all love. His troubles are due only to his covering over of his natural state of love.
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Love and discover that selflessness turns out to be the greatest good for yourself. .
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Love is effortless and hate requires much effort.
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Apply love and every problem resolves.
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Human love is needing the other one. Divine love is giving to the other one.
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Love equals happiness. When we are not happy~ we are not loving.
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The concept of possessiveness is just the opposite of the meaning of love. Love frees” possessiveness enslaves.
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Love is a feeling of oneness with, of identity with, the other one. When there's a full love you feel yourself as the other person. Then treating the other person is just like treating your very own self. You delight in the other one's joy.
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Love is a tremendous power. One discovers that the power behind love, without question, is far more powerful than the hydrogen bomb.