Free will is "corrupted nature's deformed darling, the Pallas or beloved self-conception of darkened minds"
I did love Kolkata as a mysterious woman, the beloved, my mother. . . I dont the outside world, my world is Kolkata. . . I do want to live, but Im certain that the death of Kolkata will bring my end
Lovers move like lightning and wind. No contest. Theologians mumble, rumble-dumble, necessity and free will, while lover and beloved pull themselves into each other.
None but God is loved in the exist- ent things. It is He who is manifest within every beloved to the eye of every lover – and there is nothing in the existent realm that is not a lover
In truth, everything and everyone is a shadow of the Beloved.
Love, that exempts no one beloved from loving, seized me with pleasure of this man so strongly, that, as thou seest, it doth not yet desert me.
The joy of the soul is in glorification of the beloved Lord of all creation.
The person who is "in-love" has the ilusion that his beloved is perfect.
Self-righteousness. . . . is the largest idol of the human heart - the idol which man loves most and God hates most. Dearly beloved, you will always be going back to this idol. You are always trying to be something in yourself, to gain God's favour by thinking little of your sin, or by looking to your repentance, tears, prayers ; or by looking to your religious exercises, your frames, etc; or by looking to your graces, the Spirit's work in your heart. Beware of false Christs. Study sanctification to the utmost, but make not a Christ of it.
The most important aspect of love is not in giving or the receiving: it's in the being. When I need love from others, or need to give love to others, I'm caught in an unstable situation. Being in love, rather than giving or taking love, is the only thing that provides stability. Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me.
Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
This is the ending. Now not day only shall be beloved, but night too shall be beautiful and blessed and all its fear pass away.
Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.