Thread by @drlouisehansen

What is Love? Sadhguru: 🌷🌿What fragrance is to a flower, love is to a human being. If there is love in your heart, it will guide you through your life. Love has its own intelligence. Love is a quality. Love is not what you do. Love is what you Become. 1/18 #Justice4Australia

If 7.5 billion people minus one, you feel terribly lonely, that’s not love– that’s attachment. You want to be loved because you feel incomplete. Otherwise, being loved can be quite a nuisance. Love is not about somebody. Love is not some kind of act. Love is the way you are. 2/18

Using people and loving things – this is a complete misunderstanding of life. Things are for use. People are for love. If someone loves you because you are theirs, it is about you being their property. If someone loves you for who you are, you are fortunate. 3/18

Whether God or somebody else loves you does not make a difference for you. If you are loving, it makes your life very, very sweet. There is a region beyond reason. Unless you get there, you will never know the sweetness of love. 4/18

Your ways of thinking and feeling, your likes and dislikes, your philosophies and ideologies all melt down when you fall in love. One who is stuck in the realm of right and wrong, liking and disliking, will never know the texture of love. 5/18

What most people call love today is little more than a mutual benefit scheme. Love is an unconditional sweetness of emotion. There is really no such thing as conditional love and unconditional love – there are conditions, and there is love. 6/18

Love is not a transaction but a burning flame within you. When it burns the core of who you are, it is liberating. There is no insurance for love. It takes awareness to keep it alive. 7/18

You cannot rise in love, you cannot fly in love, you cannot stand in love – you have to fall in love. If you want to know the magic of emotion, something of you has to fall. Love is not an instrument of convenience. Love is a process of self-annihilation. 8/18

When you are really in love, someone or something else is more important than you. Once that quality comes in you, growth will be easy. Love is not a joy; it is a deep, wonderful pain. Everything within you should tear. Only then will you know what love is. 9/18

Only people who are deprived of love imagine that God is love. Love is a human emotion. Everyone can love God as He does not demand anything from you. But to love the one who is next to you right now costs life. 10/18

For most people, love means, ‘You must do what I want.’ No, love means, they can do what they want, and we still love them. If you love someone, you should do what they like for them. Not what you like. 11/18

Lust is a strong need. Love is not a need. When you love, you settle down; nothing more is needed. Only the one who is beyond the fear of losing oneself can know love, can be love. 12/18

Love is a process of inclusion. Once I include you as a part of me, I will be to you just the way I am to myself. Love is a longing to include someone as a part of yourself. It is a possibility to become more than what you are, by inclusion. 13/18

Once you free yourself from the meanness of the mind, an indiscriminate sense of love and inclusion arises. Compassion is not condescending kindness. It is a passionate engagement with everything around you. 14/18

Your ability to love n’ experience life is limitless. The limitation is only of the mind. If you want everyone to fall in love w/ you, you must first fall in love with all of them. Scale up your love! Why only love one person when you can fall in love w/ the whole universe. 15/18

Love can solve problems, compassion can solve problems, n’ above all, sense can solve problems. If you are a sensible human being, you will naturally be loving and inclusive. If your heart is full with love, there is no such thing as service, as it is a great privilege. 16/18

It is time we work towards creating a world where every human being can blossom and be like a flower, bursting with love and ecstasy. Efficiency should always be out of love and care for people around you – not a machine-like, unconcerned action. 17/18

Don't hold back your love, your joy, your exuberance. Only what you give becomes your quality, not what you hold back. You never know if you will enjoy its shade or fruits, but you know someone will. The important thing is not that people love you but that you are loving. 18/18