When God's divine love rises as a wave, it washes away the sins of the
whole life in a moment, for law has no power to stand before love: the
stream of love sweeps it away.

All the beauty that there is in life is after all what we call love.
From it all the virtues spring. The whole beauty of life is in it, and
it is as the English song says, 'The light of a whole life dies, when
love is done'. Life's light is love; and when the heart is empty of
love, a man is living and yet not living; from a spiritual point of view
he is dead. When the heart is asleep, he is as though dead in this life,
for one can only love through the heart. But love does not mean give and
take. That is only a trade; it's selfishness. To give sixpence and
receive a shilling is not love. Love is when one loves for the sake of
love, when one cannot help but love, cannot do anything but love. Then
one is not forced to love; there is no virtue in that. One does not love
because another does. It is simply there. It cannot be helped. It is the
only thing that makes a person alive. If a person loves one and hates
another, what can he know of love? Can you love one person fully if
at the same time you cannot bestow a kind glance on some other person?
Love is like the water of the Ganges. It is itself a purification. 'God is love'.
When love is awakened in the heart, God is awakened there. When a man
has journeyed, he reaches the goal as soon as his heart has reached
love.

The divine place, paradise, is the heart of the human being'.
That is why he has respect for every heart. For in this heart is God.