Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Wisdom is knowing I am nothing,  Love is knowing I am everything,
and between the two  my life moves

Does love act deliberately? Yes and no. Life is love and love is life. 
What keeps the body together but love? What is desire, but love of the self? What is fear but the urge to protect? And what is knowledge but the love of truth? 
The means and forms may be wrong, but the motive behind is always love —love of the me and the mine. The me and the mine may be small, or may explode and embrace the universe, but love remains

When you are hurt, you cry. Why? Because you love yourself. Don’t bottle up your love by limiting it to the body, keep it open. It will be then the love for all. 
When all the false self-identifications are thrown away, what remains is all-embracing love

Since time immemorial you loved yourself, but never wisely.
Use your body and mind wisely in the service of the self, that is all. 
Be true to your own self, love your self absolutely. 
Do not pretend that you love others as yourself. Unless you have realized them as one with yourself, you cannot love them. Don’t pretend to be what you are not, don’t refuse to be what you are.
Your love of others is the result of self-knowledge, not its cause. Without self-realization, no virtue is genuine. 
Where you know beyond all doubting that the same life flows through all that is and you are that life, you will love all naturally and spontaneously. When you realize the depth and fullness of your love of yourself, you know that every living being and the entire universe are included in your affection.

The search for reality is the most dangerous of all undertakings for it will destroy the world in which you live
But if your motive is love of truth and life, you need not be afraid

Your weakness is due to your conviction that you were born into the world. 
In reality the world is ever recreated in you and by you. 
See everything as emanating from the light which is the source of your own being. You will find that in that light there is love and infinite energy

When you love the Self and nothing else, you go beyond the selfish and the unselfish. All distinctions lose their meaning. Love of one and love of all merge together in love, pure and simple, addressed to none, denied to none. 
Stay in that love, go deeper and deeper into it, investigate yourself and love the investigation and you will solve not only your own problems but also the problems of humanity

You are love itself —when you are not afraid