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If we love others, we live in the light.

                                     1 John 2: 10

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Love: agape  - Godly Love

Love: eros  - Romantic Love

Love: philia  - Brotherly Love

Dr. Gary E. Schwartz, Univ. of Arizona: The AfterLife Experiments

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov: "A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest form of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal in satisfying his vices. And it all comes from lying - to others and to yourself."

E.M. Forster: "You want to love everyone equally, and that's worse than impossible - it's wrong."

Henri-Frédéric Amiel: "Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh, be swift to love, make haste to be kind."

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius."

Australian Aboriginal Proverb: "We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home."

Sanaya Roman: "What you love is a sign from your higher self of what you are to do."

Billie Holiday: "You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave."

Leslie Weatherhead, Life Begins At Death: "Think of F.W.H. Myers saying, through a reputable medium like Geraldine Cummins, 'If only I could tell you what [the AfterLife is] like; I just haven't the words to tell you how marvelous it is; the sense of beauty, the sense of freedom, the sense of love'..."

Professor Daniel N. Robinson, Georgetown University: Robinson, referring to Aristotle's essay on friendship, asserts that relationships based on sensuality will endure as long as the parties are in receipt of such commodity; likewise, those based on utility will remain operative as long as the parties involved find each other mutually useful. There is, however, a "friendship grounded in virtue, such that one desires for one's friend what is best for one's friend, and this for the sake of one's friend. This is perfected or completed friendship (teleia philia), for its aims do not go outside the friendship itself... teleia philia is not characteristic of most friendships... A perfected friendship is possible only between those who are relevantly equal, though the measure of equality is not quantitative but proportional: as the audience and the great performer are not equal, but each grants to the other what is due: that is sufficient equality." [i.e. there is mutual respect; more than this, an appreciation, e.g., for the talents of others based on the observer's study and dedication to refinement.]

Near-death experiencer, www.near-death.com: "I felt love - so much more than romantically, when you fall in love," she said. "In that moment I felt integrated, I became a different person. After that... I'm not religious, but I wanted to go help people."

Willa Cather: "Where there is great love there are always miracles."

David McCullough: (paraphrased, from the PBS documentary on the life of John Adams) "Love is more than looking into each other's eyes. Love is looking and walking forward - together."

William James: “Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest, which co-mingle their roots in the darkness underground.” [Editor's note: this has been paraphrased as "separate on the surface, connected at the depths"]

Michael Talbot, Holographic Universe: commenting on the insight of Sri Yukteswar: "Individuals who live [on the OtherSide, when] confronted with the multitude of relatives, fathers, mothers, wives, husbands, and friends acquired during their 'different incarnations on earth,' they are at a loss as to whom to love especially and thus learn to give 'a divine and equal love to all.'"

Deepak Chopra: "The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither themselves nor others. They are open to gestures of love. They think about love in every action. They know that love is not a mere sentiment, but the ultimate truth at the heart of the universe."

Buddha: "You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere; you yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."

Oscar Wilde: "Where there is no extravagance there is no love."

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