He that loveth not, knowth not God, for God is love. ( 1. John)
These words sound so eternal that most of us cannot connect them with daily life. What , we ask, do personal relationships have to do with the divine? I would reply that it is by discovering the unity between ourselves and others that we find our unity with God. We don't first get to know God and then, by some miracle of grace, come to love our fellow human beings. Loving others come first. In this sense, learning to love is practicing religion. Those who can put the welfare of others before there own small personal interest are religious , even if they would deny it.
Ekkanath Easwaran
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