Richard Rohr's new book and podcast on the Universal Christ explore Love as the energy that sustains the universe, moving everything toward resurrection.

Contemplation is not so much a matter of transcending mundane existence as it is becoming present to the realities of the human experience. — Mirabai Starr Read Feminine Incarnation: Weekly Summary

Authentic love is of one piece. How you love anything is how you love everything. How you love is how you have accessed Love. — Richard Rohr Read How We Love

Conscious love is “love in the service of inner transformation”—or if you prefer, “inner transformation in the service of love.” — Cynthia Bourgeault Read Love in Service of Transformation

Love calls forth the reality of the beloved, and the act of loving calls forth our own most authentic and dynamic center. — Cynthia Bourgeault Read Laying Down Our Life

Even as we set necessary and healthy boundaries, we are also invited to forgive what is, to weep over and accept our own interior poverty. — Richard Rohr Read Love the Contradictions

Love is the ultimate reality. We can probably see this only through the inner dialogue we call prayer. For love is first of all hidden. — Richard Rohr Read Love Is a Mirror

Love becomes a path of awakening—rousing us from unconscious patterns into living more fully in the present, in accord with who we really are. — John Welwood Read The Heart of the Universe

If you don’t choose daily and deliberately to practice loving kindness, it is unlikely that a year from now you will be any more loving. — Richard Rohr Read Conscious Love: Weekly Summary

True holiness and wholeness come when we allow God’s love and grace to unfold in the present moment and we respond to what is before us. — Richard Rohr Read A School of Love

As our hearts overflow, we find that love can naturally extend wider, until it encompasses caring for all things and connection to everything. — Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg Read Giving Ourselves