For the love that expresses itself in creative action is something much more
than an emotion. It is not something which you can feel and know -
remember and define. Love is the organizing and unifying principle which
makes the World a Universe and the disintegrated mass a community. It is
the very essence and character of mind and becomes manifest in action when
the mind is whole. For the mind must be interested or absorbed in something,
just as a mirror must always be reflecting something. When it is not trying
to be interested in itself - as if a mirror would reflect itself - it must be
interested, or absorbed, in other people and things. There is no problem of
how to love. We love. We are love, whether it is to go straight out like
sunlight, or try to turn back on itself like a candle under a bushel. Released
from the circle of attempted self-love, the mind of man draws the whole
Universe into its own unity as a single dewdrop seems to contain the entire sky.
