Love has to spring spontaneously from within; it is in no way amenable to any form of
inner or outer force. Love and coercion can never go together; but while love cannot
be forced on anyone, it can be awakened through love itself. Love is essentialy self-
communicative; those who don't have it catch it from those who have it. Those who
receive love from others cannot be its recipients without giving a response that, in
itself, is the nature of love. True love is unconquerable and irrestible. It goes on
gathering power and spreading itself until it transforms everyone it touches. Humanity
will attain a new mode of being and life through the free and unhampered interplay
of pure heart to pure heart.
Excerpted from Discourses of Meher Baba
Compassionate Father.
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