Love

"There is no Love but God's, and ALL of Love is His. There is no other principle that rules where Love is not. Love is a law without an opposite. Its Wholeness is the Power holding everything as One. If you achieve the faintest glimmering of what Love means today, you have advanced in distance without measure and in time beyond the count of years to your release. He HimSelf will place a spark of Truth within your mind wherever you give up a false belief, a dark illusion of your own reality and what love means. He will shine through your idle thoughts today, and help you understand the Truth of Love. In loving gentleness He will abide with you, as you allow His Voice to teach Love's meaning to your clean and open mind." -- A Course in Miracles; Workbook 127, 3:5-8, 7:1, 9:3-5

"There is no material truth. The physical senses can take no cognizance of God and Spiritual Truth. The senses of Spirit abide in Love, and they demonstrate Truth and Life. Divine Principle, Love, creates and governs all that is real." -- Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy; Page273, Lines 2-4; Page 274, Lines 12-13; Page 286, Lines14-15

How do we even begin to speak about what is All-Encompassing and so Beautiful that I weep as I write this? Imagine a time when your experience of love was so intense that there was no containing it. You may have thought it was because of a certain person or experience. It wasn't. In those moments we simply relax our defenses of mind and heart enough to glimpse the breathtaking Reality of Love. In any moment, in any experience when our undefended heart opens, the unimaginable experience of ever-present Love rushes in.

In the Tao te Ching, Lao Tsu wrote, "There is a Being, whose name I do not know, Who surrounds everything with Its Love like a garment." The overwhelming experience of Divine Love leaves no story unchanged. All that previously looked like pain or limitation is transformed, radiant with blessing. Every drop of blood, every experience of failure, every hateful experience becomes a source of gratitude and wonder. How is it possible? What mystery is this?

Our human stories about love really have very little to do with Love. They distract us from what IS. "Perhaps you think that different kinds of love are possible. Perhaps you think there is a kind of love for this, a kind for that; a way of loving one, another way of loving still another. Love is One. It has no separate parts and no degrees; no kinds nor levels, no divergencies and no distinctions. It is like ItSelf, unchanged throughout. It never alters with a person or a circumstance. It is the Heart of God, and also of His Son." (ACIM; Workbook 127, 1:1-7)

Love is not what we think it is. It is completely impersonal, without a story... and yet It is more intimate than any emotional or sexual encounter, more deeply fulfilling than any human relationship or attachment. There is no describing It in words, and yet It spills over into words, into this blog, into imagined time and space... It cannot and will not be contained. Forever ItSelf, It is Our Home and Our Self.

"No law the world obeys can help you grasp Love's meaning. What the world believes was made to hide Love's meaning, and to keep it dark and secret. There is not one principle the world upholds but violates the Truth of what Love IS, and what you are as well. Seek not within the world to find your Self. Love is not found in darkness and in death. Yet it is perfectly apparent to the eyes that see and ears that hear Love's Voice." -- A Course in Miracles; Workbook 127, 5:1-3, 6:1-3

"Accept the Truth about your Self, and go your way rejoicing in the endless Love of God. It is but this we are asked to do." -- A Course in Miracles; Workbook 139, 10:2-3