Dag Hammarskjold Quotes

Plant the love of the holy ones within your spirit; don't give your heart to anything, but the love of those whose hearts are glad.

I don't think I could truly value human love until I developed divine love.

When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.

I am grateful to have been loved and to be loved now and to be able to love, because that liberates. Love liberates. It doesn't just hold - that's ego. Love liberates. It doesn't bind. Love says, 'I love you. I love you if you're in China. I love you if you're across town. I love you if you're in Harlem. I love you. I would like to be near you. I'd like to have your arms around me. I'd like to hear your voice in my ear. But that's not possible now, so I love you. Go.'

Love without attachment is light.

I can love a person in this life only insofar as he tries to advance in the praise and service of God our Lord; for the man who loves anything for itself and not for the sake of God, does not love God with his whole heart.

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.

If you love God, you can't hate anything or anyone. If the love one offers is met with hate, it doesn't die, rather it manifests in the form of compassion. That is universal love. It is not just a sentiment. It cannot be manifested merely by a shift in mental disposition. It can only come from inner cleaning, an inner awakening.

Love is so unconditional; love liberates; love is the reason why I do what I do, and so I think it is the greatest gift we have.

It's such a magnificent thing to be able to love someone and expect nothing from them.

My heartfelt wish for you: as you get older, your self will diminish and you will grow in love.

Love liberates. It doesn't just hold - that's ego. Love liberates. It doesn't bind.

So the divine love is sacrificial love. Love does not mean to have and to own and to possess. It means to be had and to be owned and to be possessed. It is not a circle circumscribed by self, it is arms outstretched to embrace all humanity within its grasp.

Love longs to be free, a stranger to every worldly desire, lest its inner vision become dimmed, and lest worldly self-interest hinder it or ill-fortune cast it down.

Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.

Love liberates. It doesn't just hold, that's ego. Love liberates.

If we are to grow in love, the prisons of our egoism must be unlocked. This implies suffering, constant effort and repeated choices.

Love is not easy. All great religions postulate love as one of the greatest accomplishments. If it were that easy, or as easy as most people think, certainly, the great religious leaders would have been rather naive.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.

Meditation means this opening out of the soul to the Divine and letting the Divine shine in without obstruction from the personal self. Therefore it means renunciation. It means throwing away everything that one has, and waiting empty for the light to come in.

And what is the joy of Christ? The joy and delight which springs forever in His great heart, from feeling that He is forever doing good; from loving all, and living for all; from knowing that if not all, yet millions on millions are grateful to Him, and will be forever.

O Lord, self-renunciation is not the work of one day, nor children's sport; yea, rather in this word is included all perfection.

I love you much less than my God, but much more than myself.