Melody Beattie Quotes

Be universal in your love. You will see the universe to be the picture of your own being.

Love and the self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both.

It's getting too late in my life to care about the small things. It's getting too late to not be brave, to not live my life fully, to not try to be an artist. Trivial things like how nice your hotel room is, or if you have to be naked for a while, they fade away.

This is love: the flowering of love is meditation.

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.

There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the beloved.

I said only one word, brought only one message: Love. Love - nothing else.

In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love.

Love said to me, there is nothing that is not me. Be silent.

I live in between My heart's compassion-rain And my life's oneness-gain.

When I listen to love, I am listening to my true nature. When I express love, I am expressing my true nature

The purpose of the heart is to know yourself, to be yourself, and yet one with God.

At the heart of all things is love.

I wasn't really testing it on myself as much as I was learning from other people about what it meant to live and love with your whole heart, and then thinking, oh my god, I'm not doing that.

Let a thousand wrangling desires become one Love.

To love is to recognize yourself in another. The others "otherness" then stands revealed as an illusion pertaining to the purely human realm, the realm of form.

Be Love; there is nothing greater.

When you perceive yourself as spirit, you will not simply feel love - you will BE love.

Once you start drinking a little of meditativeness, a little of love, you start growing wings.

Love After Love all your life, whom you have ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.

When I listen to love, I am listening to my true nature. When I express love, I am expressing my true nature. All of us love. All of us do it more and more perfectly. The past has brought us both ashes and diamonds. In the present we find the flowers of what we've planted and the seeds of what we are becoming. I plant the seeds of love in my heart. I plant the seeds of love in the hearts of others.

There was a while when I got really bad stage fright and I basically felt...I was incredibly angry. I felt like everything had been taken away from me and it was at that point that I realized how much doing stand up reminds me of my self love and curiosity about myself and love of other people because I don't go on stage to dominate.

You only need a heart full of grace

The six things in life that never get boring are knowing and loving God, your neighbor, and yourself.