Love is a state of being…

• True love has no object. It is a state of being. John McAfee
• Love is a state of being in harmony with oneself. Anodea Judith
• I’m not interested in being a “lover.” I’m interested in only being love. Ram Dass
• Love is not something you think about, it’s a state in which you dwell. Christopher Moore
• Love is not a matter of what happens in life. It’s a matter of what’s happening in your heart. Ken Keyes
• Love is a state of being; it has nothing to do with anybody else. One is not in love, one is love. Rajneesh
• Love is the ultimate state of human being where compassion prevails and kindness rules. Harbhajan Singh Yogi
• God is love and doesn’t ask for anything back in return. So it’s that process of letting go and just allowing, and just being in that pure state. Wayne Dyer
• Love is misunderstood to be an emotion; actually, it is a state of awareness, a way of being in the world, a way of seeing oneself and others. David R. Hawkins
• If you find out what it is you love to do and give your whole life to it, then there is no contradiction, and in that state your being is your doing. Jiddu Krishnamurti
• For all of us, love can be the natural state of our own being; naturally at peace, naturally connected, because this becomes the reflection of who we simply are. Sharon Salzberg
• Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being. Not that you are in love – now you are love. Rajneesh
• Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form. Eckhart Tolle
• If I go into the place in myself that is love, and you go into the place in yourself that is love, we are together in love. Then you and I are truly in love, the state of being love. That’s the entrance to Oneness. Ram Dass
• Love is not a doing but a state of being – a relatedness, a connectedness to another mortal, an identification with her or him that simply flows within me and through me, independent of my intentions or my efforts. Robert A. Johnson
• The deeper emotions are not really emotions at all but states of Being. Emotions exist within the realm of opposites. States of Being can be obscured, but they have no opposite. They emanate from within you as the love, joy, and peace that are aspects of your true nature.  Eckhart Tolle
• Gratitude is a state of being in which we feel connected to everything in the universe. It is a fullness of the heart that recognizes the blessings of Nature within and without. Gratitude is love for the goodness of life itself. Deepak Chopra
• Let love be your state of being ,, NOT that you fall in love , but just that your loving .. it is simply your nature …You can be in state of love only if you drop the old mind pattern of relationships… Love is not a relationship.  Rajneesh
• Love is a state of being, and in that state, the ‘me’, with its identifications, anxieties, and possessions is absent. Love cannot be, as long as the activities of the self, of the ‘me’, whether conscious or unconscious, continue to exist. Jiddu Krishnamurti
• Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It’s not ‘I love you’ for this or that reason, not ‘I love you if you love me.’ It’s love for no reason, love without an object. Ram Dass
• Love, when it is pure, has a revitalizing effect upon others, and in the presence of a truly loving person others grow and expand into a healthier state of being. Without deep reverence for the beloved, such a refreshing stream cannot flow from the heart of the lover. Vatsyayana
• Love is not a relationship, love is a state of being; it has nothing to do with anybody else. One is not “in love”, one is love. And of course when one is love, one is in love – but that is an outcome, a by-product, that is not the source. The source is that one is love. Rajneesh
• It takes no effort to love. The state has its own innate joy. Questions answer themselves if you are aware enough. Life is safe; flowing with the current of being is the simplest way to live. Resistance never really succeeds. Controlling the flow of life is impossible. Deepak Chopra
• I love, because my love is not dependent on the object of love. My love is dependent on my state of being. So whether the other person changes, becomes different, friend turns into a foe, does not matter, because my love was never dependent on the other person. My love is my state of being. I simply love. Rajneesh
• Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word “love” here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace – not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth. James A. Baldwin
• You’ve been somebody long enough. You spent the first half of your life becoming somebody. Now you can work on becoming nobody, which is really somebody. For when you become nobody there is no tension, no pretense, no one trying to be anyone or anything. The natural state of the mind shines through unobstructed – and the natural state of the mind is pure love. Ram Dass
• The problem for most of us is that the cup has holes, so love goes out just as easily as it goes in. What happens when people are living in the unconditional state of love, however, is that they recognize they are the ocean of love; they know it’s their essence. And they naturally overflow in this love. So instead of being love beggars, they become love philanthropists. Marci Shimoff
• Our natural state of being is in relationship, a tango, a constant state of one influencing the other. Just as the subatomic particles that compose us cannot be separated from the space and particles surrounding them, so living beings cannot be isolated from each other… By the act of observation and intention, we have the ability to extend a kind of super-radiance to the world. Lynne McTaggart
• When you release what numbs you and holds you down, your light-filled Being reveals itself. You return home to your natural state. Love is who and what you are. Love is a state of being. It is the natural state of your inner most essence. Love cannot be reached or attained. Love is your natural awake state when you let go of limitations. It’s only the fragile ego and its negative self-talk that creates the illusion of ‘I am not-good enough’. The invincible summer that shines even in the bleakest winter is the unchangeable, ever-present light within you. You are the light you seek. Aimee Davies

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…a high state of consciousness

• In the crystal of the awakened consciousness, one facet is love. Jack Kornfield
• Love is the omnipresent force of the universe; it unifies energy and consciousness. John Pierrakos
• The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring. Oscar Wilde
• Knowledge can bring many things..but the consciousness of the heart brings love, and love brings everything. Harold Klemp
• Consciousness equals energy = love = awareness = light = wisdom = beauty = truth = purity. It’s all the same trip. Ram Dass
• The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love. Nisargadatta Maharaj
• The expansion of your own consciousness, love capacity, humility and compassion – this is the path; this is the way. Bryant H. McGill
• Nobody can teach you love. Love you have to find yourself, within your being, by raising your consciousness to higher levels. Rajneesh
• Love makes the world less worldly, less dense, more transparent to the divine dimension, the light of consciousness itself. Eckhart Tolle
• Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is a supreme creative act. Ram Dass
• We’re here to learn how to worship consciousness and radiance, evoke it in each other, and tolerate nothing less than our deepest love. David Deida
• The best way to maintain a higher vibration is to make every thought and word you use or listen to as loving and nurturing as possible. Sonia Choquette
• What I teach is how to go inside and reach that place I call “love consciousness.” This is a place of peace and joy that is within all humans. Isha Judd
• 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
• The history of human consciousness is marked by the battle between the old awareness, the ways of fear, and the new awareness, the ways of love. Al Berto
• When we learn new behaviors and break through to higher levels of consciousness and love, we can fulfill the deeper spiritual hunger within. Judith Wright
• The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains. Napoleon Bonaparte
• As we grow in our consciousness.. there will be more compassion and more love. And then… the barriers between people.. between religions.. and between nations will begin to fall. Ram Dass
• The world is a projection of our collective consciousness. If our collective consciousness reaches that place of peace, harmony, laughter and love, it will be a different world. Deepak Chopra
• The supreme Jnana is to realise the oneness everywhere, to see one’s own self as the Self in everything. That too cannot come so long as there is the least consciousness of the ego. Swami Vivekananda
• When divine consciousness enters, the shift occurs and you will be engulfed by what will feel like the greatest love imaginable – a love in which your soul realigns with your spirit and they meet together as one. Debbie Ford
• As I open my consciousness to tap into unconditional love, I connect with new levels of spiritual power. I see a blanket of benevolence covering the planet, helping to transform Earth’s consciousness from fear to love. Louise Hay
• Love is the recognition of oneness in a world of duality. This is the birth of God into the world of form. Love makes the world less worldly, less dense, more transparent to the divine dimension, the light of consciousness itself. Eckhart Tolle
• The more you love, the more you will feel your consciousness expanding, becoming bigger – because whomsoever we love becomes part of our being, we include him. Mm? A bird on the wing, and we look at the bird with great love – suddenly we are not two. Rajneesh
• Remain true to yourself, but move ever upward toward greater consciousness and greater love! At the summit you will find yourselves united with all those who, from every direction, have made the same ascent. For everything that rises must converge. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
• Before you can express love, you must find love. You must know love within yourself before you can give it to another. When you recognize or experience the truth about yourself you automatically feel love, because love is a quality of your true consciousness and true ideas. Tae Yun Kim
• I find that somehow, by shifting the focus of attention, I become the very thing I look at, and experience the kind of consciousness it has; I become the inner witness of the thing. I call this capacity of entering other focal points of consciousness, love; you may give it any name you like. Nisargadatta Maharaj
• There are only two states of consciousness that exist – the state of the ego and the state of love. The ego is the narrow state, the seed-form, the atomic stage; love is all encompassing, love is God. The center of the ego is I; the ego exists for itself. The nectar of love is the universe. Love exists for all. Rajneesh
• As collective consciousness goes higher and higher, all the differences in the world will be appreciated more and more. A definition of peace is unity in the midst of diversity. Or you could say happiness, love, and peace in the midst of all diversity. All the differences would be appreciated fully in the light of this peace. David Lynch
• The source of wisdom and power, of love and beauty, is within ourselves, but not within our egos. It is within our consciousness. Indeed, its presence provides us with a conscious contrast which enables us to speak of the ego as if it were something different and apart: it is the true Self whereas the ego is only an illusion of the mind. Paul Brunton
• Strangely enough we strengthen love in ourselves when we raise into consciousness the shadow side of our lives. Conversely, when we keep negative feelings out of sight, they smother the love that seems to lie deeper and closer to the real self. This is probably why there is so much pain in not loving. The life that is not able to express the love which is so integral to it grows deformed. Elizabeth O’Connor
• When we stop fighting with ourselves, we aren’t creating anymore conflict in our mind. Then our mind can for the first time relax and be still. Then for the first time our consciousness can become whole and unfragmented. Then total attention can be given to all of our thoughts and feelings. And then there will be found a gentleness and a goodness in us that can embrace all that is been given in the world. Then a deep love for everything will be the result of this deep attention. For this total attention, this soft and pure consciousness that we are, is nothing but Love itself. Jiddu Krishnamurti