The first commandment is to love God above all things; upon this commandment, I place Christ’s “follow Me.” To follow the principle of Christ, the one supreme God.
Love: when I think of loving, I think of the beauty of actions, of feelings, toward one’s neighbor. Love is the unmistakable feeling of deep affection; the recognition of this feeling is admirable and moving. Everything comes down to this, and the most important commandment of all is this: to love, to love, and to love.
No feeling, except love, is permitted; the measure between what we can and what we ought, what is fitting for us, is only love. We have the free will to choose everything, but love is the essence of God. To feel love is to become ever more like God; the greater the love you carry, the more like and closer to God you will be.
We must cultivate love for everything and everyone and allow ourselves to feel it. Not to seek to receive love, but to feel it for God, for others, and for oneself. Love is infinite; the love we ought to feel is a calm, serene love. All that matters is this, because life does not lie in the quality of experiences, but in the quality of how we feel, and everything we feel is something we ourselves create.
Fragments of an awakened soul 