Love.
Could there be a word that is more confused in society than this idea of ‘Love’ and what it really is.
We grow up with the expression ‘I love you’. We don’t question it. We think, like everyone else, that there is an ‘I’ and there is a ‘You’ which gives rise to ‘two’ people. Someone to love and someone to be loved.
We watch films and listen to music that sing of the torture and joy of love… the pleasure… the pain… the ‘falling in love’ and then the ‘falling out of love’.
We never question if everything we heard about Love is even true. Until one day, we do.
Love is what we are.
Love simply Is.
Love is not personal.
Love is reflecting back to you, all day, every day. Love is not owned by anyone. It cannot be lost, nor gained.
The greatest love of your life is your own divine Self.
You love everyone else in your life to the degree you know and love your own true nature.
Once you realise this, you can love anyone and everyone. Such is the depth of Love, that by Grace alone, it can withstand cruelty, hate and attacks.
You realise that anyone who does not love themselves is simply confused about who they think they are.
Love them, especially, unconditionally.
Be Love.
Be loved, dear Beloved.
“Personalities don’t love. They want something.”
“Our job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else is to push our buttons!”
“Love loves to love. It’s nothing personal.”
“When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, then your work is done.”
“One must find the truth of one’s own Self and be that.
Unless you know yourself, you will not know what true love is.
Love and Truth are one.”
Recommended Reading:
I Need your Love - is it true? By Byron Katie
The Illuminated Hafiz. Love Poems for the Journey to Light.
The Intelligence of Love - Manifesting your Being in this World. John de Ruiter
The Essential Rumi. By Jalal al-Din Rumi (Translation by Coleman Barks)