“Love is a contradiction if there is no God.”
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), VII : Love, Suffering, Pity
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Sādhanā : The Realisation of Life http://www.spiritualbee.com/spiritual-book-by-tagore/ (1916)
Context: In love all the contradictions of existence merge themselves and are lost. Only in love are unity and duality not at variance. Love must be one and two at the same time.
Only love is motion and rest in one. Our heart ever changes its place till it finds love, and then it has its rest. But this rest itself is an intense form of activity where utter quiescence and unceasing energy meet at the same point in love.
In love, loss and gain are harmonised. In its balance-sheet, credit and debit accounts are in the same column, and gifts are added to gains. In this wonderful festival of creation, this great ceremony of self-sacrifice of God, the lover constantly gives himself up to gain himself in love. Indeed, love is what brings together and inseparably connects both the act of abandoning and that of receiving.
“Fear is the contradiction of faith. Faith says, Whatever it is, it’ll be okay because of God.”
Source: Always True (Moody, 2011), p. 33
Source: Summa Theologica (1265–1274), I, q. 25, art. 4
Source: Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Part III, Ch.17
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Friendship
"Power and Love" (1926)
Context: p> Every morning
I shall concern myself anew about the boundary
Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No
And pressing forward honor reality.We cannot avoid
Using power,
Cannot escape the compulsion
To afflict the world,
So let us, cautious in diction
And mighty in contradiction,
Love powerfully.</p