Love knows no reward.

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Love knows no reward. Love is always for love's sake. The Bhakta loves because he cannot help loving. When you see a beautiful scenery and fall in love with it, you do not demand anything in the way of favour from the scenery, nor does the scenery demand anything from you. Yet the vision thereof brings you to a blissful state of the mind; it tones down all the friction in your soul, it makes you calm, almost raises you, for the time being, beyond your mortal nature and places you in a condition of quite divine ecstasy.

Source Vivekananda, Para-Bhakti or Supreme Devotion, The Triangle of Love, §3 · 📖 Read the full passage

✨ To meditate on today

According to Swami Vivekananda, the bhakta — the one who loves God — loves without asking anything in return, just as we admire a beautiful landscape that, demanding nothing, soothes and uplifts the soul. Today, stop before something beautiful (the sky, a tree, a face) and simply let it fill you, then offer someone a gesture of affection without expecting anything.

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