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The control of imagination is not restraint by will power but cultivation through love and compassion: imaginative love, holding others and oneself in love in the imagination, lifts the invisible into sight, gives water in the desert and is the way into the garden of all that is lovely. Life is the offspring of love; love is our birthright; one does not go seeking it, for only the loving find love.
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as quoted by Neville | He who will not live by love must be subdued by fear
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The Cloud of Unknowing | Not what thou art, nor what thou hast been, beholdeth God with his merciful eyes, but that thou wouldst be
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Imaginative love lifts the invisible into sight and gives us water in the desert
Beauty, love and all of good report are the garden, but imaginative love is the way into the garden
With so much of the world in discord we cannot possibly emphasize too strongly the power of imaginative love
Hold fast to love in your imagination
Except by love, we cannot truly live at all
Love is our birthright
Those who go seeking for love only make manifest their own lovelessness and the loveless never find love. Only the loving find love and they never have to seek for it
The original birthplace of imagination is in love. Love is its lifeblood
Love and fear are the mainspring of our mental machinery
Love is not love if there is no beloved
wherever man’s attitude towards life is governed by imaginative love, there it is religious – there he worships – there he perceives the truth
we can do the loving thing only when all we imagine is full of love for our neighbor
let us look at man through the eyes of imaginative love which is really seeing with the Eye of God
Through the veins of the humblest man on earth runs the royal blood of being