“If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.”
Variant: if your love is only a will to possess, its not love
Source: Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
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Thich Nhat Hanh 169
Religious leader and peace activist 1926Related quotes
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Il est difficile de définir l'amour. Dans l'âme c'est une passion de régner, dans les esprits c'est une sympathie, et dans le corps ce n'est qu'une envie cachée et délicate de posséder ce que l'on aime après beaucoup de mystères.
Maxim 68.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
The Gay Science (1882)
As quoted in "Husayn ibn Mansur al-Hallaj" at Sidi Muhammad Press http://www.sufimaster.org/teachings/husayn.htm
Context: Love is in the pleasure of possession, but in the Love of Allah there is no pleasure of possession, because the stations of the Reality are wonderment, the cancelling of the debt which is owed, and the blinding of vision. The Love of the human being for God is a reverence which penetrates the very depths of his being, and which is not permitted to be given except to Allah alone. The Love of Allah for the human being is that He Himself gives proof of Himself, not revealing Himself to anything that is not He.
