Radhanath Swami: Quotes on Love

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1. "The fundamental need of all of us is love. Every living being is
looking for pleasure—from the insignificant insect to the kings and
prime ministers. Everyone is seeking pleasure, but there is only one
pleasure that can reach the heart, and that is the pleasure of
experiencing the heart's need to give love and receive love. The
pleasures of sensual experience, fame, acquisition of wealth, etc. can
reach the mind and the senses, but they don't really touch the heart.
What if you were the proprietor of everything on earth when you were
the only being on earth? There will be no one to love you and there
will be no one to be loved by you. We need love; that's our nature."
2. "Everyone is looking for pleasure. That essential need for
pleasure, in its most important form, is the pleasure of love. Even if
you were the proprietor of everything on the entire planet earth but
you were the only person on earth, you would be unhappy. There can be
no real satisfaction of the heart without having people to love and
without being loved. The real problem in the world is poverty of the
heart. The only way to fill that hunger is love. The only thing that
touches the heart is love. To love means to give. The child gives
nothing to the mother, but the mother is found to take more
satisfaction in that child than practically anything or anyone else
and all she is doing is giving her love, all she is doing is just
sacrificing. A mother finds pleasure in giving satisfaction to her
child. A father finds pleasure in seeing the family prosper. Because
that is real pleasure. Love is not just to take, love is to give. The
more you give, the more genuine your giving is, the more people will
naturally reciprocate, thus bringing satisfaction to the heart." 3.
"Human nature is that everyone essentially wants to love and be loved.
If we show affection people open up and we can disarm them of their
prejudices against us. ....Believes that truly appreciating the other
over looking his/her flaw is a divine quality, it means overlooking
our own egoistic tendencies and looking for purity in the other person
and inadvertently we purify ourselves." - HH.Radhanath Swami