Leonard Cohen Quotes

I AM! YOU ARE! AND LOVE: IS ALL: THAT MATTERS!

We are just a little tiny flicker of a much larger flame that is Life itself, Consciousness itself, Being itself, Love itself, God’s very self.

When you rest in presence and pure awareness, sometimes everything is experienced as love because you're connected with all that is, and love is simply the nature of being.

When my self is not with you, it is nowhere.

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

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

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.

One believes that if nothing happens, one disappears. That is not true.

From ancient times, the core idea of the soul is the soul is the capacity to integrate different functions into a single being or into a single person. The soul is what holds us all together: what connects our will and our minds and our bodies and connects us to God.

The true key of the universe is love.

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.

I am truth. I was made of truth.

Religion is not knowledge. Religion is love. The word 'religion' comes from a root which means binding together - falling into love, becoming one.

Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of the universe and transcends all boundaries.

Relation is the essence of everything that exists.

There were thousands and thousands of forms of joy in the world, but that all were essentially one and the same, namely, the joy of being able to love.

There is no end to relationship. There may be the end of a particular relationship, but relationship can never end; to be is to be related.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Love is the binding force on every level of existence.

All we want, whether we are honeybees, salmon, trash-collecting ants, ponderosa pines, coyotes, human beings, or stars, is to love and be loved, to be accepted, cherished, and celebrated simply for being who we are. Is that so very difficult?

Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.

From what we are, spirit; from what we do, matter. Matter and spirit are one.

To love is to return to a home we never left, to remember who we are.

There is no separation between being and the manifested world, between the manifested and the unmanifested. But the unmanifested is so much vaster, deeper, and greater than what happens in the manifested.

There is no coming toward it or going away from it; it is, and you are it.