Human perfection resides in this, that the love of God should conquer a man's heart and possess it wholly.

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The love of God is the highest of all topics, and is the final aim to which we have been tending hitherto. We have spoken of spiritual dangers as they hinder the love of God in a man's heart, and we have spoken of various good qualities as being the necessary preliminaries to it. Human perfection resides in this, that the love of God should conquer a man's heart and possess it wholly, and even if it does not possess it wholly it should predominate in the heart over the love of all other things.

Source The Alchemy of Happiness, Chapter VIII, §1 · 📖 Read the full passage

✨ To meditate on today

According to Ghazali, a Persian theologian and mystic, the love of God is the highest of all topics, and human perfection is for it to fill the heart, or at least to come before everything else there. Today, before an important choice, gently ask yourself: “Does this leave room for the love of God in my heart?”

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