Meher Baba, the Avatar says: Love has to spring spontaneously from within, it is in no way amenable to any form of inner or outer force. Love and coercion can never to together. True love is unconquerable and irresistible. It goes on gathering power and spreading itself until eventually it transforms everything it touches. Humanity will attain a new mode of being and life through the free unhampered interplay of pure love from heart to heart.
The Conscious Activist: Where Activism Meets Mysticism by James O’Dea p. 226.