Love then comes in the middle, and man begins to approach God.

Excerpt

We all have to begin as dualists in the religion of love. God is to us a separate Being, and we feel ourselves to be separate beings also. Love then comes in the middle, and man begins to approach God, and God also comes nearer and nearer to man. Man takes up all the various relationships of life, as father, as mother, as son, as friend, as master, as lover, and projects them on his ideal of love, on his God.

Source Vivekananda, Para-Bhakti or Supreme Devotion, Conclusion, §2 · 📖 Read the full passage

✨ To meditate on today

According to Swami Vivekananda, we begin by seeing God as a separate Being, then love bridges the distance: man lends Him the faces of those he loves, father, mother, friend, master or beloved. Today, choose one of these relationships and turn to God, or to what is sacred to you, with that same tenderness, in a short prayer or a thought.

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