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When we limit our love to a specific
person (we do not mean sexually, but rather emotionally, mentally
and spiritually), it is difficult to experience love in its highest
expression. We love this person and not others. We tend to focus
on a specific person, "loving" them often because they
offer us security, pleasure or affirmation; or because we consider
them to be "ours."
Pure love is universal. It can express
itself toward any particular being, but it cannot limit itself
to that being or group of beings. If it does, then it is love
mixed with conditions. Each individual is one of the countless
waves on an ocean of consciousness. The ocean is the One Universal
Consciousness, which is temporarily taking the form of those
specific waves
and then disappearing into the formlessness of the ocean again
before reappearing as billions of others. All waves are expressions
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When we single out one specific
wave from the ocean of beings and limit our love to that, we
are, in essence, loving an illusion. That being which we love
is just a temporary manifestation of the one Universal Being,
which manifests as all the other beings simultaneously.
That form on which we focus is
a temporary physical, emotional, mental
manifestation that will dissolve back into the ocean. When we
love the water in that wave, that is, its spiritual essence,
the spirit within, we begin to love all waves. The same water
is in all the waves. The same spiritual essence is in all beings.
Then we love the spiritual essence
in others and not only their form or the specific benefits that
we receive from them. We love the spirit within.
Our love now becomes both unconditional
and universal. It is unconditional because it does not depend
on what others do or do not do, and universal because we start
to love more and more people independent of their appearance,
character and other superficial factors. We love the spirit within
them. We as spirit are one with the spirit, which is within them.
So we can love the wave or we
can love the ocean and thus all the waves. This is our choice.
Love is like the gold ore that
is brought up from the earth; it is mixed with other metals (emotions,
needs). Our job is to purify that gold through our efforts to
love unconditionally in all of our relationships, no matter what
the other does or does not do.
Only then will we truly be happy.
Only then will experience our true Self.
Be sure to look for the remaining
the parts of this series:
1. What
is Love ?
2. Love
or Need for Security ?
3. Love,
Pleasure or Affirmation?
4. Selfless
Love
5. Spiritual
Universal Love
6. Loving
the Wave or the Ocean |
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