“… love opens all doors, penetrates every wall, clears every obstacle. And a little true love does more than the most beautiful speeches.”
Meditations on Love
1.2 From “Prayers and Meditations”: January 19, 1914
“In Thee, by Thee, all is transfigured and glorified; in Thee is found the key to all mysteries and all powers. But one can attain Thee only if one no longer desires anything except to live in Thee, serve Thee…”
1.3 From “Prayers and Meditations”: February 02, 1914
“Grant my prayer: Transform me into a brazier of pure love and boundless compassion.”
1.4 From “Prayers and Meditations”: February 22, 1914
Many a time in the day and night it seems to me that I am […] concentrated entirely in my heart which is no longer an organ, not even a feeling, but the divine Love, impersonal, eternal; and being this Love I feel myself living at the centre of each thing upon the entire earth …
1.5 From “Prayers and Meditations”: May 9, 1914
“Grant that I may be nothing but Thy Divine Love and that in every being this Love may awake, powerful and victorious.”
1.6 From Prayers and Meditations: May 23, 1914
“Thy love is vaster than the universe and more lasting than all the ages; it is infinite, eternal, it is Thyself.”
1.7 From Prayers and Meditations: June 01, 1914
… all those who try to turn away from Thy sweet and divine law, I take into my arms of love, I cradle them in my heart of love and offer them to Thy divine flames
1.8 From Prayers and Meditations: June 2, 1914
I am nothing but Thy inexhaustible love; I penetrate all things; living within the heart of each atom I kindle therein the fire which purifies and transfigures, the fire that never burns out …
1.9 From Prayers and Meditations: August 11, 1914
“Envelop this sorrowful earth with the strong arms of Thy mercy, permeate it with the beneficent outpourings of Thy infinite love.”
1.10 From Prayers and Meditations: August 27, 1914
Transmute me into that burning brazier so that all the atmosphere of earth may be purified with its flame.
1.11 From Prayers and Meditations: September 4, 1914
Manifest Thy power. From day to day, from hour to hour we implore Thee: “O Lord, manifest Thy power!”
1.12 From Prayers and Meditations: September 30, 1914
… And now my pen falls mute and I adore Thee in silence.
1.13 From Prayers and Meditations: December 25, 1916
Fight in order to conquer and triumph; fight to overcome everything that was till today, to make the new Light spring forth, the new Example the world needs. Fight stubbornly against all obstacles, inner or outer. It is the pearl of great price which is offered for thy Realisation
1.14 From Prayers and Meditations: December 27, 1916
“Love me in all things, everywhere and in all beings” was Thy reply. I prostrate myself before Thee and ask of Thee to give me that power.
1.15 From Prayers and Meditations: January 5, 1917
LOVE is nothing but the tie that binds and holds together all the flowers of Thy divine bouquet.
1.16 From Prayers and Meditations: July 12, 1918
“Joyous like a child I have smiled and wept at once before Thee, O my Well-Beloved!”
2.01 To Know How to Suffer
Suffering is not something inevitable or even desirable, but when it comes to us, how helpful it can be! Each time we feel that our heart is breaking, a deeper door opens within us, revealing new horizons, ever richer in hidden treasures, whose golden influx brings once more a new and intenser life to the organism on the brink of destruction.
2.02 The Supreme Discovery (1)
‘Arise, O resplendent Being, thou who art ever pure, who knowest neither birth nor death; arise, Almighty One, and manifest thy nature.’