A Quote by Howard Thurman

Love has no awareness of merit or demerit; it has no scale... Love loves; this is its nature.

Howard Thurman

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Awareness Love Loves Merit Nature Scale

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Howard Thurman
American - Theologian
November 18, 1899 - April 10, 1981

The grace of God is love freely shown toward guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of their demerit.

J. I. Packer

Love never asks what benefit it will derive from love. Love from its very nature is a disinterested thing. It loves for the creature's sake it loves, and for nothing else.

Charles Spurgeon

It is the nature of love to love as much as we feel we are loved and to love whatever the one we love loves.

St. Catherine of Siena

(a womanist) 3. Loves music. Loves dance. Loves the moon. Loves the Spirit. Loves love and food and roundness. Loves struggle. Loves the Folk. Loves herself. Regardless.

Alice Walker

Just for a few tiny buds on your tongue you are killing live animals, with no sensitivity, with no awareness, with no love. It seems impossible; how can a man who has known love be capable of doing such things? A man who loves his wife, who loves his children goes on eating meat? Impossible.

Rajneesh

So let it be a criterion if you follow the path of awareness, let love be the criterion. When your awareness suddenly blooms into love, know perfectly well that awareness has happened, SAMADHI has been achieved. If you follow the path of love, then let awareness function as a criterion, as a touchstone. When suddenly, from nowhere, at the very center of your love. a flame of awareness starts arising, know perfectly well... rejoice! You have come home.

Rajneesh

It is convention and arbitrary rewards which make all the merit and demerit of what we call vice and virtue.

Julien Offray de La Mettrie

When you rest in presence and pure awareness, sometimes everything is experienced as love because you're connected with all that is, and love is simply the nature of being.

Jack Kornfield

Try to walk as much as you can, and keep your love for nature, for that is the true way to learn to understand art more and more. Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see her. If one really loves nature, one can find beauty everywhere.

Vincent Van Gogh

At its highest, love is a religious state of consciousness. I love you too, Buddha loves, Jesus loves, but their love demands nothing in return.

Rajneesh

Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.

George Eliot

Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason.

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.

Scott Hayden

To love our nothingness we must love everything in us that the proud man loves when he loves himself. But we must love it all for exactly the opposite reason.

Thomas Merton

Love, like everything else, exists in a spectrum. Love of another, love of the world, love of God, all these loves are really one love in different degrees of light and density.