Spiritual Love
What Love Isn’t
Most of us were raised thinking we acquired a loving nature through effort or as a result of a good upbringing. Many also see it as simply innate in some and not others. People now judge the extent of our love by how they feel about us and our actions, which can vary between people and shift based on what we do and say. That is the oscillating human picture of love.
What Love Is
There is of course a love not dependent on environment, rearing, or human goodness. This love shines forth in those rare moments when we are able to drop back from the density of our personality and humanhood—relaxing away from the identity that was built in our early years.
This love is spiritual. It doesn’t have to be developed, upheld or maintained—just realized. It’s also not here today to make you happy and gone tomorrow to yield your disappointment. This love is you—it is the only love there is. It knows no bounds and has no requirements of your life. It doesn’t even require that you acknowledge it. It simply is. That said, when you acknowledge its surpremecy, life gets a whole lot more fun, as your awareness of it will begin to show you it outside in every circumstance, every person, and every change of the tide. It is utter perfection. Love is the true body of life—not the human body. Love is the energy pervading all. What we see with limited human eyes is just that, a finite sense of the one reality of love, which is an energy. It is here, just as you would hope love would be, always available and never taken away. No condition for its presence in your experience and no withdrawal for any action you may take.
An Invitation
This spiritual love is you in that inner place nobody can reach with human senses. In these coming days, when you find yourself judging humanly what is good and loving about yourself or another, drop back from the human scene, open to this spiritual love, and then see if you might also open to it in another. You will find there a love far more still, permanent, and unconditional. You will find there a stillness and peace that assures you only love is real.
Only human conditioning would say otherwise. Human sense would tell us of tragedy in losing a job or “parting” ways with a partner. Love would say, I love you, and I thank you. Love would say that your love for all in your world is unbreakable. Love would say that all things you have loved will never leave you, even if they appear to “move” from you human sight—they remain where they always were—in the grand and infinite body of Love. In the life you are. In your very Self.
