This page of the website (which will keep growing over time) is dedicated to words (including poems, verses, prayers, etc.), pictures, videos, or anything else that has to do with love and lovingkindness, the most powerful medicine. It is meant to uplift you and help you in your journey towards phenomenal health.
There are many other emotions/feelings that are related to love, such as acceptance, gratitude, joy, inspiration, and ecstasy. This page of the website will also include quotes covering such topics in order to encourage you on your path towards optimal mental/emotional wellness.
With love,
Dr. Sharif
P.S. For more healing, refer to the page on this site titled “Medicine and Humor” in order to have a good laughing session. After love, humor is one of the most healing medicines on the planet. We want you to feel loved and laugh right now and forever.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7
This love of which I speak is slow to lose patience. It looks for a way of being constructive. It is not possessive. It is not anxious to impress. It does not cherish inflated ideas of its own importance. It is not touchy. It does not compile statistics of evil or gloat over the wickedness of other people. On the contrary, it is glad with all good men when truth prevails. Love knows no limits to its endurance; no end to its trust; no fading of its hope. It can outlast anything. It is, in fact, the one thing that still stands when all else has fallen.
The Prayer of St. Francis
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Where there is injury, pardon.
Where there is doubt, faith.
Where there is despair, hope.
Where there is darkness, light.
Where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master,
Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console;
To be understood, as to understand;
To be loved, as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive.
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
And it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.
Amen.
Hafiz:
The subject tonight is Love
And for tomorrow night as well,
As a matter of fact
I know of no better topic
For us to discuss
Until we all
Die!
Life is not a race but indeed a journey. Be honest. Word hard. Be choosy.
Say thank you, I love you, and great job to someone each day. Go to church, take time for prayer. The lord giveth and the lord taketh. Let your handshake mean more than pen and paper.
Love your life and what youve been given, it is not accidental search for your purpose and do it as best you can. Dreaming does matter. It allows you to become that which you aspire to be.
Laugh often. Appreciate the little things in life and enjoy them. Some of the best things really are free. Do not worry, less wrinkles are more becoming. Forgive, it frees the soul.
Take time for yourself plan for longevity. Recognize the special people youve been blessed to know.
Live for today, enjoy the moment.
Bonnie L. Mohr
Love’s Speech by Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh
The speech of love soars beyond words and their meanings;
love speaks through a different voice, in a different tongue.
My rival challenges me, demanding that I speak of love,
but for a deaf heart, what answer is there but silence?
He whose heart is aware of the lovers’ world
hears only the whisperings of love and kindness.
Love speaks in a language unknown to ordinary people:
leave behind their tiresome chatter with all its headaches.
He who denies love will never grasp these words;
nothing we could say would ever move his ignorant heart.
In the way of loving-kindness, there is no idle talk;
only the bankrupt chatter behind every door.
Nurbakhsh, from love’s breath your speech is eloquent,
embraced by the heart of every clear-sighted gnostic.
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly – Sam Keen, from To Love and Be Loved.
Forgiveness and love are not feelings to live by–they are God’s commands to go by.
Unknown author
You’ve got to dance like there’s nobody watching. Love like you’ll never be hurt. Sing like there’s nobody listening. And live like it’s heaven on earth. – William W. Purkey.
Love is when you choose to be at your best when the other person is not at their best.
Love is when what you want is never important. But, what the other person needs and wants is always paramount.
By Wintley Phipps
Between me and You, there is only me.
Take away the me, so only You remain. Hallaj
People are like stained glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
What is love? Author: Unknown Persian poet
Oh you who ask, what is the sign of love?
Love is nothing other than the appearance of kindness.
Love is kindness without asking why or how?
Love means trying without any claim
. (the claim that you are trying
)
Love means hearing the words being spoken by her heart without exchanging words.
Love is
a desert covered by flowers.
a creek flowing on barren land.
a flower in a desert filled with thorns.
believing in Spring by witnessing one flower
In a yellow and harsh autumn that brings forth the fall of leaves,
Love is the twist in the last leaf hanging onto a tree
Love is the purification of ones soul.
Love is falling down numerous times and getting back up.
Love is being a flower instead of a thorn, being a bridge instead of being so many walls.
In the midst of so much turmoil and hubbub,
Love means the lessening of mankinds suffering.
Love means leaving the water for another who is thirstier, even if you are thirsty yourself.
Sometimes it is returning disrespect with respect.
And sometimes it is being forgiving and chivalrous, instead of seeking revenge.
Love means making another persons problem easier,
offering a remedy to sooth a sick persons illness.
In this World, you can find the footprints of love in anything good and lasting.
To the world you may be just one person but to one person you may be the world.
Brandi Synder
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
-Rumi
Mother Teresa’s Prayer
People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies. Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you. Be honest and sincere anyway.
What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight. Create anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, will often be forgotten. Do good anyway.
Give the best you have, and it will never be enough. Give your best anyway.
In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
Arthur Rubinstein
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
Rumi
I love you without knowing how or when or from where
I love you simply, without problems or pride
I love you in this way because I don’t know any other way of loving
But this, in which there is no “I” or “You”
So intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand
So intimate that when I fall asleep it is your eyes that close….
by Pablo Neruda
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Robert Heinlein
“Love means never having to say you are sorry.”
A line from the movie “Love Story”
Acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place or thing, or situation- some fact of my life- unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment.
From the “Big Book” of Alcoholics Anonymous
Feeling the oneness of yourself with all things is love.
Ekhart Tolle
Oh good scholar, I say to myself, how can you help but grow wise with such teachings as these–the untrimmable light of the world, the ocean’s shine, the prayers that are made out of grass?
Author: Unknown
Perfect love casts out fear. If fear exists, then there is not perfect love.
Love will immediately enter into any mind that truly wants it.
From the book called “A Course in Miracles”
When a situation has been dedicated wholly to truth, peace is inevitable.
From the book called “A Course in Miracles”
What is happiness?
We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.
Frederick Koenig
From the book titled “Happy” by Dr. Ian Smith, MD
It takes only a little light to dispel our dark feelings, but it is in our darkness that we find our light. Beyond our anger, resentment, and pain is a sea of love so great and so vast that it can wash away any wound.
By Debbie Ford
On the subject of being blaming versus taking responsibility:
Taking responsibility that this is your life, your emotions, and your negative feelings creates an internal movement that supports in becoming free from your pain and from repeating it in the future. As long as you continue to blame someone else, youre stuck in the illusion that you are powerless over your condition. Until you take total responsibility for the circumstances you find yourself in you remain powerless to change them. Once you embrace your own part in your circumstances, you can begin to face and embrace what is within you . Any trace of denial or self-protection keeps us stuck blaming others and unable to move forward with our lives.
By Debbie Ford
All of our pain and suffering is created by how we view our present circumstances.
By Debbie Ford
On the subject of resentment versus forgiveness:
We are spiritual beings who love to love, and when we deprive ourselves of the energy of love, we starve our soul. Forgiveness is the greatest act of courage because it breaks down the walls that we thought would protect us. But, in fact, there is no better protection than that which comes from complete and total love for all of mankind…. Willingness is vital to the process of forgiveness. If you are unwilling to forgive, there is almost no chance that it will happen….. An innocent heart never holds resentment or dwells in the pain of guilt… No one deserves to carry the weight of a hardened heart. Pride prevents us from opening our hearts and forgiving… Forgiveness is the key that opens the door to our hearts. Forgiveness is there waiting for us the moment we are ready to surrender our will, claim responsibility for our circumstances, and trust that there is a plan for our lives beyond what we can see… The consequence of refusing to forgive is that we block ourselves from receiving unknown gifts. It is extremely difficult to feel our own self-worth when we are burdened with resentments. When we feel unworthy of happiness, we deny ourselves the everyday miracles that are available to each and every one of us. Inside our psyche, shame and resentment share a difficult dance…. When we hold on to our resentments, an unknowing shame permeates our entire being and sabotages our feelings of worthiness. What we do to others we also do to ourselves. The resentments we hold on to so that we can punish others wind up punishing ourselves. Keeping a tight grip on the crimes of others leaves us with a burdened heart and diminishes our chances for receiving all the joy that life has to offer.
Forgiveness is the shortest route to God.
By Debbie Ford
My worries and doubts were all a result of my limiting beliefs.
By Debbie Ford
How can I tell the difference between my ego and my soul? Its actually quite simple.
Your ego always knows, and your soul doesnt need to know.
Your ego lives in fear, and your soul lives in trust.
Your ego resists when things arent going its way, and your soul surrenders, trusting that the river of life is taking you exactly where you need to go.
Your ego dwells in the past, and your soul lives in the present, with the profound knowledge that this moment is all there is.
Your ego will do anything to be right, and your soul knows that it will gain strength, knowledge, and wisdom from all the times it is wrong.
Your ego is serious, and your soul is light and joyful.
Your ego blames and your soul takes complete responsibility for co-creating every circumstance.
Your ego stands in judgment, and your soul comforts you with compassion.
By Debbie Ford
Life is not the way it’s supposed to be, it’s the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.
Virginia Satir
The foundation of adult trust is not “You will never hurt me.” It is “I trust myself with whatever you do.” We will still be stunned, confused, and grieved by the betrayals of those we trust. But “Please don’t ever hurt me” strikes a note of victimization.
David Richo from the book “Daring to Trust”
Our job is love. (It is implied that they mean their day-to-day occupation is loving all of creation.)
(A line from a sufi poem.)
Love is choosing the highest good for the other person.
Brad Henning
In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
From the book “The Art of Forgiveness, Lovingkindness, and Peace” by Jack Kornfield
Carl Jung has said that as society becomes more and more chaotic, our only hope is for individuals to make a conscious consolidation of opposite forces within themselves to serve as a counterbalance. Medicine can play an important role in helping individuals to make this transformation, if it recognizes the existence of its own inner conflicts and finds a way to resolve them.
From the book titled “Dreams, Symbols, and Homeopathy” by Jane Cicchetti.
“10 years from now, you’ll be more disappointed by the things you DIDN’T do, than by the things you DID do.”
Mark Twain
Love All,
Trust a Few,
Do Wrong to None.
William Shakespeare
Love is the blazing flame which burns away everything except the Beloved.
Rumi