Love, Motivation and Success

LOVE, MOTIVATION, AND SUCCESS,

Love is much more than the unity achieved within sexual pleasure. It is the force that holds all aspects of reality as wholes or 'holons' - within that infinity that we refer to as the Whole.

The force of gravity is what holds physical reality 'in place'. The same attraction urges us to overcome our separate existence. The same attraction drives the mystic to seek her/his union.

Experience needs to be transcendent as well as of the here and now if we are to function holistically. That is we have to provide ourselves, and those we care for, with opportunities to sense the Wholeness as well as the parts. But it doesn’t necessarily have to be within one particular religious context.

Happiness and peace and development would be greatly helped if we recognized that there are many paths to the summit of the hill.

From Christianity, amongst other sources, we learn that ‘God is love’. But what else is supreme reality and how does it relate to learning and knowing? Perhaps the following quotations indicate that love (affect) and what we choose to identify with determines, or at least shape, what we come to know. Learning ultimately takes place within a love relationship:

"A person is only as good as what they love." Saul Bellow.

"Love revealeth with unfailing and limitless power the mysteries latent in the universe."‘Abdu’l-Baha.

"Love is the beauty of the soul." St. Augustine.

"Knowledge is love." `Abdu’l-Baha.