“Love is a spiritual discipline, not a personal preference. Love is the possibility of giving yourself in a way that is not your preference. So to practice real loving, love when you don’t want to love. Love even when it’s not going well for you. Love when there is no particular reward coming.”
“In the dark, before the sun comes up, the world that exists—with all its trees, its flowers, its bounteous beauty—does not seem to be here at all. Just so, all the love you want to see will appear only when you live all the love you are. You are the sun, you see, and there is good reason for you to shine: so you can see the beautiful things waiting for you.”
“Do not trust in solitary pursuits. To try to acquire anything virtuous apart from love is like trying to carry water home in one’s hand. It only leaks away, blows away, unseen. But trust in love . . .
In the night, love will gather up and deliver to the doorstep everything of value which we have sought, but could not carry home ourselves. Love will do that for us. Love will take care of everything. One has only to choose for it and trust in it above all else. Ah, then.”