Plato Quotes

Human beings have Love for one another inborn in them - Love, reassembler of our ancient nature, who tries to make one out of two and to heal human nature.

Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.

He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.

Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.

Love is the force that brings us back together, in order to condense the experience dispersed in many lives and many parts of the world.

Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces.

For love ... is the blood of life, the power of reunion in the separated.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Love is to be two and at the same time one.

What is love? two souls and one flesh; friendship? two bodies and one soul.

If love is what I've experienced, I can't separate it from other people. I can't separate creation, and I can't separate whatever this creative thing is, from it's creation. I don't believe that can be done. We're all part of this creative force.

Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.

Love is all, love is new, love is all, love is you.

To many moderns, [love] is something that is only a part of us rather than something of which we are a part.

Love is a place & through this place of love move (with brightness of peace) all places yes is a world & in this world of yes live (skillfully curled) all worlds

When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.

At the risk of sounding hopelessly romantic, love is the key element. I really love to play with different musicians who come from different cultural backgrounds.

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.

Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole.

Anything that takes you out of the context of being separate is healing. Anything that takes you out of the context of separateness is intimacy.

To love is to approach each other center to center.

Love is the soul's light, the taste of morning, no me, no we, no claim of being.

Sense of family is enormously important to me. In the larger sense, we're all of us family; we're all of us soulmates.

The dance goes from realizing that you're separate (which is the awakening) to then trying to find your way back into the totality of which you are not only a part, but which you are.

Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other. Love is an echo in the feelings of a unity subsisting between two persons which is founded both on likeness and on complementary differences. Without the likeness there would be no attraction; without the challenge of the complementary differences there could not be the closer interweaving and the inextinguishable mutual interest which is the characteristic of all deeper relationships.