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I find that Love is probably the hardest concept in life to master. Strip away every bit of artifice that you can place upon Love, and when you do, what remains is something quite simple and nearly impossible to define. We speak of Love for country, for family, for our partner, for ourselves, for innocents, even for the condemned, yet, rarely does our Love approach the un-ceasing Love that God grants us without compromise.


Ask yourself this question:

“What is Love to Me?”

If your answer includes anything conditional, then it is not Love. In therapy years ago, I mentioned that I felt unconditional love for someone. My therapist started laughing out loud, and said that such a thing does not exist with the human race 99.999pct of the time. He went on to explain that we place conditions on our love relationships, no matter how magnanimous we think we are. His question to me was, “Would you love this person the same if they murdered your whole family?” I had to pause to think about it, and that moment alone proved his point. My conditions for Love were laid bare in my hesitation.

Let us assume that, if there is a Heaven, then God accepts all sinners there, no matter what their crime. Let’s evolve that idea to God not recognizing anything but Love, so He doesn’t know what a sinner is. Let’s evolve that up to God being oblivious in His perfection to the silliness of His children. Let’s evolve that up to ‘none of this is happening and it is all a dream’. Let’s evolve that up to the idea that this whole cosmos is just a single teardrop from God’s eye. “How are any of these ideas helpful?” you might ask.

Because each thought should nominally provoke a small response in you set against what your belief system is. I say, does it matter if we know what is happening around us or within us if we cannot accept the basic principle that all life is based on Love?

Take a relationship in your life that is puzzling or difficult, and approach it strictly from the standpoint of loving that person unconditionally. Your #1 goal then should be to help in any way possible to demonstrate Love in the forms of boundaries, or support, or encouragement, or even silence. If you can find the courage to Love someone as they are and not who you wish them to be, you will find them within a whole new light. The Universe will support your thinking by allowing miracles to occur among your interactions, and you will learn to enact change properly. Love has no shortcuts, and that is why our partnerships are our great teachers. They force us to understand properly that Love cannot be manipulated. Love is a condition of Is-ness, always becoming, widening further, until you feel you just might burst from too much.

by WilliamPatrickCorgan

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