Divine Utterances:
Love




This page includes a small selection from the many Divine Utterances (which Adi Da sometimes humorously called "Holy Mutterances") that Adi Da spoke or wrote from 1972 to 2008, on the topic of Love. For more on Adi Da's Divine Utterances, click here.


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    There is no Truth higher than love.

    There is no method greater than ecstasy, or self-transcending love of the Radiant Life-Principle.

    There is no Destiny to which we may evolve that is more profound than the ultimate and spiritual sacrifice of the self, and mind, and body of Man.

    Scientific Proof of the Existence of God
    Will Soon Be Announced By The White House!

    tags:   Destiny,   Love,   Surrender,   Truth



    Not a single circumstance of "experience" is the Truth. Love Is the Truth, Love Is Happiness, and It turns you toward the destiny of Real God. If you will enter into that Communion, you will vanquish the Evil One, you will make "holy war" on the lovelessness in the "world", you will demand the Spiritual conversion of the Earth, and you will absolutely transform human existence. So be free. Love God.

    tags:   Happiness,   Love



    It seems trivial to say that everyone dies, but it really is the case. Love your way beyond it. Do not take it. The heart cannot accept it.

    May 7, 1997

    tags:   Death & Dying,   Love



    The eating gorilla finds a cabbage in the jungle, sits down like a slob and munches away at the cabbage, and is completely benign, completely peaceful. There is nothing threatening about this gorilla, nothing dangerous about him. If some other gorilla or another being comes near, he still has his food. He is connected to the food source. He is not disturbed as long as that creature will show that he also is eating. Therefore, the eating gorilla is the image of the true man, the true woman. He demonstrates the principle of true politics, of real human existence, in which we are always presently connected to the Food Source in Truth, and are always presuming connection, relationship, "I love you." But the gorilla in the desert, or the conventional man, is cut off from his food source through the presumptive recognition of his separate existence, of his mortality. He feels unloved. He is a dangerous beast.

    "Renouncing the Search for the Edible Deity"
    The Eating Gorilla Comes In Peace

    tags:   God-Communion,   Love



    Everything you console yourself with is a lie. When you get down to the bottom of it, broken-hearted in your distress, maybe you will discover what “in love” is. It is not about what you must do. It is about transcending yourself, about not fulfilling yourself. And it is not amusing. It is passionate and it is terrible.

    The Incarnation of Love

    tags:   Heart,   Love,   Self-Transcendence



    A very strange thing that only parents know is that you do not merely love your children. You actually fall in love with them.

    Love, Wisdom, and Happiness in the First Three Stages of Life

    tags:   Children,   Love



    There is not anything that anyone does or has done that gives you a "right" — based on any principle whatsoever — to dissociate from that person or to deny yourself the quality of sympathy and compassion relative to that person. Never wish anyone eternal suffering — anyone!

    "The Repenting of egoity"
    Part 9, The Aletheon

    tags:   Egoity,   Human Maturity,   Love,   Right Life / Discipline



    Love Does Not Fail For You When You Are Rejected or Betrayed or Apparently Not Loved. Love Fails For You When You Reject, Betray, and Do Not Love. . . Therefore, Love. Do This Rather Than Make Any Effort To Get Rid Of The Feeling Of Being Rejected.

    The Dawn Horse Testament

    tags:   Love



    For those who Are Committed To Love (and who, Therefore, Always Commune With Me, The One Who Is Love-Bliss Itself), Even Rejection By others Is Received and Accepted As A Wound, Not An Insult. Even The Heart-Necessity To Love and To Be Loved Is A Wound. And Even The Fullest Realization Of My Love-Bliss Is A Wound That Never Heals.

    The Dawn Horse Testament

    tags:   Enlightenment,   Heart,   Love



    The Most Direct Way To "Know" Love In every moment Is To Be Love In every moment. Do This By Means Of Devotional (and, In Due Course, Transcendental Spiritual) Communion With Me.

    The Dawn Horse Testament

    tags:   God-Communion,   Guru-Devotee Relationship,   Love



    Your First Philosophical Gesture Is "You Do Not Love Me".

    Your First Philosophical Gesture Is "You Do Not Love Me"

    tags:   Egoity,   Love



    You must become responsible as love in all relations, under all conditions, and as early in your life as possible.

    The Incarnation of Love

    tags:   Human Maturity,   Love,   Right Life / Discipline



    All doubt, despair and fear become insignificant, once the intention of life becomes Love, rather than the dependence on being loved.

    The Enlightenment of the Whole Body

    tags:   Love





    Love is action. It is not action by an other or a part of a separate one. It is not merely action of the body, or feeling, or thought. It is action of the whole body.

    The Paradox of Instruction

    tags:   Love,   Whole Body



    Do not just live a moral life. Live a life of love.

    The Incarnation of Love

    tags:   Love,   Right Life / Discipline



    The heart is in bondage until love is incarnated in the world. Therefore, you must incarnate love.

    The Incarnation of Love

    tags:   Heart,   Love



    Love is not mere attachment, or any kind of fascination with objects or others that represent the possibility of self-fulfillment. Love itself is renunciation of separate and separative self, in relationship to another.

    The Incarnation of Love

    tags:   Love,   Renunciation,   Self-Transcendence



    Love is disillusionment, or freedom from recoil and modification, subject and object, under all conditions.

    The Paradox of Instruction

    tags:   Love,   Self-Transcendence,   Self-Understanding



    The only cure is love. All the rest is bullshit.

    tags:   Love





    You can suffer, or you can love. You can complain, or you can surrender. You can abuse, or you can bless. It is really just that simple.

    "You Can Suffer Or You Can Love"

    tags:   Love,   Suffering,   Surrender



    No individual should live as the superior, or the inferior, or even the equal, of all others. Rather, each should live as the intimate servant of others through love.

    The true politics of human relationships is the politics of servants everywhere — every one serving, and every one served.

    The Incarnation of Love

    tags:   Love



    The true man or woman yields to the process of experience as to a lover. . . Experience, whether positive or negative, coincides with ecstasy in the case of devotees of the Real. They are sacrificed in any case, spoiled with wounds, and ultimately eaten by a mysterious lover. Lovers do not fear dissolution. . .

    For such a one, knowledge is only a convention of ordinary order and thinking, whereas love is the method whereby the secret purposes of the universe are fulfilled.

    The Enlightenment of the Whole Body

    tags:   Happiness,   Love,   Surrender



    My Room is Larger than you think. I close My eyes and I am in My Room, Infinitely beyond. This is just a small version of It. But this place is good for love.

    The Knee Of Listening

    tags:   Adi Da,   Human Maturity,   Love



    You cannot bypass the fire. There is no way into the Light except through surrender of "self", ecstasy, love in all your acts, in every moment of life.

    "The Fire Must Have Its Way" (July 17, 1978)

    tags:   Heat,   Light,   Love,   Right Life / Discipline,   Self-Transcendence,   Surrender



    Love, not reason, should make decisions. Decisions based on reason and not on love are karmic. Therefore, let the heart be your intelligence. The heart is unreasonable. The heart is "mad". And the heart is the ground I Call you to walk on.

    June, 1992

    tags:   Discriminative Intelligence,   Heart,   Love



    True Wisdom is the capacity for perfect madness.

    Therefore, only the practice of love has the capacity to keep the Wise sane.

    tags:   Love,   Wisdom



    Let us surrender into Infinity with all our friends and hold on to no thing or condition that ever appears. Let us forget all things in present Happiness, and so forgive the universe for all its playful changes. Let us always love one another, and so forgive one another for appearing, for changing, and for passing out of present sight. So be it.

    "Death is a Perfect Insult"
    The Enlightenment of the Whole Body

    tags:   Happiness,   Love,   Surrender



    Reduce your life to intimacy.

    tags:   Love



    Love is the only God-damned God there is!

    "The Baptism of Immortal Happiness" (December 17, 1982)
    The Dreaded Gom-Boo

    tags:   God,   Love



    You must love one another, have compassion for your limitations and the limitations of others, and forget about the fact that you are not perfect, and neither is anyone else.

    The Incarnation of Love

    tags:   Love



    The ego-transcending "point of view" actively acknowledges the principle of love.  The individual who is functioning in an ego-transcending fashion presumes himself or herself to live in a "world" of love.  In the "world" of relations, that one is alive in the Domain of Love.  Love is the principle of functioning.  It is the principle of relationship.  Love is what is to be realized and expressed.  You must overcome all limits upon it.  Spiritual life is many things, but at the level of human relations, its essence is love.

    Gathering on Nukubati Island, Fiji (June 29, 1983)

    tags:   Love



    To love is to be happy or Radiant as the whole body to Infinity.

    tags:   Happiness,   Love,   Whole Body



    Love is alive only in one who is completely in touch with his or her own fear, sorrow, and anger.

    tags:   Feeling,   Love






    Da


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