Love is an energy that is addictive, contagious and free. Earn it, chase it, give it to those in need.

Teach your children, “love your neighbor like your family”, but “not because it is a Christian thing to do, rather because it is a human thing to do.

We become neighbors when we are willing to cross the road for one another. (...) There is a lot of road crossing to do. We are all very busy in our own circles. We have our own people to go to and our own affairs to take care of. But if we could cross the road once in a while and pay attention to what is happening on the other side, we might indeed become neighbors.

We are what comes to us and by what we choose to fulfill. We learn love by experiencing other people loving us and by cultivating compassion for all humankind.

All of Christ’s philosophical ideas can be compressed into one simple phrase – Love thy neighbor.

Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'