Three last quotes...

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I would like to post three last quotes from Vivekananda. Think carefully

on the first quote, especially - consider the meaning behind the last

sentence, at first by itself, then in the context of the rest of the quote;

it invoked a trembling within me.

 

"What is it that attracts man to man, man to woman, woman to man, and

animals to animals, drawing the whole universe, as it were, toward one

center? It is what is called love. Its manifestation is from the lowest

atom to the highest being: omnipotent, all-pervading, is this love. What

manifests itself as attraction in the sentient and the insentient, in the

particular and the universal, is the love of God. It is the one motive

power that is in the universe. Under the impetus of that love, Christ

gives his life for humanity, Buddha even for an animal, the mother for the

child, the husband for the wife. It is under the impetus of the same love

that men are ready to give up their lives for their country." (2:50-51)

 

"The unity of all existence--you all have it already within yourselves.

None was ever born without it. However you may deny it, it continually

asserts itself. What is human love? It is more or less an affirmation of

that unity: 'I am one with thee, my wife, my child, my friend!'"

 

"Love binds, love makes for that oneness. You become one, the mother with

the child, families with the city, the whole world becomes one with the

animals. For love is existence, God Himself; and all this is the

manifestation of that One Love, more or less expressed."

 

 

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