Benjamin Britten Quotes

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Love is a time-honored way to transcend the separate-self sense and leap into the sublime; Treya and I held hands, closed our eyes, and jumped.

I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.

Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.

... Love is heaven and claims its own.

Ye are Blood of my Blood, and Bone of my Bone, I give ye my Body, that we Two might be One. I give ye my Spirit, 'til our Life shall be Done.

May my soul bloom in love for all existence.

Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.

There is therefore a tremendous mystery in the fact that God may be united with man and the man with God.

Loving God is never separate from loving our brothers and sisters. It's always the same.

Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything.

How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.

To love another person is to see the face of God.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

You are within God. God is within you.

What can separate us from the love of God? Not life, not death, nothing in the present, nothing in the future. Not angels, not demons nothing is able to stand between us and his loving plans because you can't stop them.

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

All life is a manifestation of the spirit, the manifestation of love.

The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.

All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you. Life itself is truth, and this will never change. Everything in heaven and earth breathes. Breath is the thread that ties creation together.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

When love is pure, it has the power to conquer. Lover and beloved conquer each other by their affection. The source, the essence, the fullest manifestation of love's conquering power is the love of the soul for the supreme soul, or God.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.

I think in order to have eternal life, you have to have a soul, and the soul of the show is that we all really did love each other. I think that really came across.