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"Even if we do not suspect it, love is the supreme law of the universe. It is a mysterious law that governs and rules every existing thing, from the lifeless atom to the union of any couple. All our thoughts and actions go to it as to a divine center of irresistible attraction."

Love is what gives people the power to dream and follow their dreams. Love gives birth to the mysterious aspiration of self-knowledge.

If you feel you no longer have this wonderful feeling of love towards a person, or something really important in your life, then it can only mean one of two things: either you were never able to love, or that you forgot how to look inside of you, where this love is still present.

Love knows that the things of the mind are fickle and are subject to change. Therefore, pure and overwhelming love can turn even the most pitiful person into a champion.

You may think you can only perceive love in your moments of joy and happiness, through your loved one. But, love does not really need that to manifest.

Love does not rule over anything and does not want to be ruled. Above all, love offers something and it requires nothing in return. See its divine simplicity in action and in life.

Love is an earthly reflection of heavenly love, and therefore it does not have any boundaries or limits.

If there is love, it is everywhere. And if there is love, it will exist from now on, forever.

Love is the ineffable, overwhelming, and divine feeling that makes us expand our consciousness and makes us feel that we are one with the infinite. Love is mostly manifested through the sublime aspiration of uniting with the "object" of our love, with the being we love dearly and deeply.

The emergence, persistence, and development of this feeling in the sphere of each individual are intimately connected to the formation and crystallization of one’s personality.

The yogis have always considered the feeling of love as extraordinarily important and often characterized it as an essential value/criteria of the degree of a human being’s spiritual evolution.

It is a measure of the fact that in the most intimate part of a person, he or she who loves has the possibility of acquiring the qualities of love itself, which are infinity and divinity. Consequently, true, genuine love is a very simple way of overcoming or transcending one’s ego.

"The most beautiful love one can experience is the love of God. He is our eternal lover and our souls are his beloveds, and when the soul meets the greatest lover in the whole universe, then the divine love will truly begin." (Paramahansa Yogananda)

"Oh, Lord, when I dwell in the house of my mortal consciousness, I think I love my parents and friends; I imagine I love my birds, animals and possessions. Now, after I entered the temple of omniscience, I know you are all I love, manifested in the shapes of my parents, friends and all the creatures and things around me. By loving you, my heart knew how to love everyone. Being loyal to you, I am loyal to all of them. And I love everything." (Paramahansa Yogananda)

For a better understanding of Anahata chakra, we will explain the following terms:

Harmony - concordance, accord, matching the composite elements of the whole. A philosophical category that expresses the adherence of the parts, the coherence of the interior and exterior, the unity of form and content and the unity of contradictions. Harmony is often considered as the foundation, attribute, or the effect of beauty.

Transfiguration - a procedure of inner alchemy that makes it possible to resonate with subtle divine energies from the macro cosmos. Through transfiguration, the elements of the outside reality, distilled by a noble vision, imagination, and power of expression of the person capable of transfiguring are transformed into a new, elevated, spiritual reality, a source of ecstasy.

Through the example of artistic expression, transfiguration represents the proof of the active and creative role of consciousness. The sublime artistic expression, capable of recreating the reality with new and deeper meanings brought art the name of "the magic mirror of reality". Transfiguration plays an important part in sexual continence and in the art of divine lovemaking as well.

Empathy - resonance that is awakened and amplified through the yogic practice, allowing a superior psychic and affective communication with other people, or sometimes with beings from unseen worlds.

Generally speaking, we all know that a mother intuitively knows her baby’s needs and feelings. This apparently mysterious connection between the mother and her child is naturally related to the fact that initially the child was one with the mother.

Empathy is an intuitive way of knowing others, because it ensures a form of affective communication and immediate, sentimental transposition, enabling the possibility of identification with other beings, in various situations that life presents.

Through certain psychological techniques and even better through certain yoga techniques, a person can normalize and improve his or her experiences and perceptions. A powerful, beneficial, positive emotional experience "charges" the person in question with positive energy, stimulates their mind, and euphorically "colors" their soul.

The study in the field of psychosomatic confirms the fact that disturbing, negative emotions cause various heart, liver, and/or brain diseases, and at the same time they deeply affect the consciousness of the physical body.

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