Similar to believing we are ‘separate’ from each other, we also believe we are ‘separate’ from God – ‘separate’ from the Whole. When we understand the meaning of ‘God is love’ then we understand the Whole is Unconditional Love. We like to think our “affection for a few persons nearest to us” is ‘love’, but this ‘conditional love’ is just attachment which is related to the fear of ‘loss’ and firmly rooted in the delusional belief in ‘separation’. In a perfect example of Orwellian doublethink (‘war is peace’) we’re taught that ‘attachment is love’.

There are, of course, many degrees of attachment. Some are willing to die for their attachment to: family; imaginary ‘borders’ and ‘countries’ (‘patriotism’); or a religion (‘faith’) – but they would probably not be willing to die for their attachment to chocolate. While attachment springs from belief in ‘separation’ (separated from the rest), unconditional love springs from the sage realization of the Indivisible Wholeness, the Interconnected Oneness of All-That-Is ~ Infinite Unity.

Love never separates – love binds All into One. To love a part is to love the Whole – you can’t love one ‘part’ more than any other ‘part’ because there are no ‘parts’ – just the Whole. Love cannot be limited to a ‘part’ – to love is to love the Whole. To say “I love you” implies others not loved, exposing the separation/attachment. To love is to simply BE love. Love is never ‘conditional’ -‘conditional love’ is a total contradiction. Love is always unconditional – love is blind to borders, countries, religion, race, sex, class and even evil. To be ‘in love’ is to be ‘ in Oneness’ / ‘ in God ’, for God IS One / IS Love.

I´ve thought about your examples about the times we get irritated when someone delays us at the traffic, stopping us to say hello, etc. It may be an interesting experience to ‘interrupt’ that moment of irritability to recall that the person who is there (driving us crazy at times) is not just what they appear to be at that moment but a fully-fledged human being as you said, wishing to be happy and to avoid suffering just like us. That reminds me of an anonymous quote I read the other day – something like ‘we should always be kind, as everyone is fighting their own battle’.

Aldous Huxley: “We can only love what we know, and we can never know completely what we do not love.

What is all this slobbering and sobbing for love?
For hellsbent sake, let’s let it go and live.
Love is that. It is not February and angst.
Some rosy hearts box of cream-filled weak chocolate
And a lousy card that goes on and on.

Love. Gotta have it! Can’t live without it.
Need for sex and open mouthed words
Hanging on the tip of tongue
And already been said.

Let’s get real here and just stop for a bold moment.
Look around and feel the air.
The bite of passion is there.
A lick of over the rainbow and Toto
Nipping at your throat.

Put it all down. Swallow and fly.
This is another day and you are in it.
Alive, dark, dizzy with now.
Feel the love brothers and sisters.
It’s you.

Kate Booth
1/23/09