Ah yes! Love, my favorite topic. This is the topic where I shine the brightest. What better way to start the day than seeing the perfection in everyone and loving every moment of it. This afternoon, I would like to get to the world’s most important expression… Love.

Going back to my previous topic about “A Dialogue with God”, one of our readers (ra) said that: true love is full of hardships and sacrifices. Now, I believe is the right time to talk more about this so I can bring light unto the darkness.

First and foremost, let us first consider what is love. If we ask a hundred people what their definition of love is, we will get hundred different answers. All of which is correct. But then, we also have to open our eyes and be true to ourselves that there exists a Greater Truth… that True Love is more than most of us make of it. Now, as one of the Masters of Love… I shall share this Greater Truth that which God has inspired others to teach of.

Love is that which is unlimited. Thus there is no beginning and end to it. No before and after. Love always was, always is, and always will be. So, love is also always. It’s the always reality.

For if love is unlimited, and always, then love is… free. Love is that which is perfectly free.

Now in the human reality, you will find that you always seek to love, and to be loved. You will find that you will always yearn for that love to be unlimited. And you will find that you will always wish that you could be free to express it.

You will seek freedom, unlimitedness, and eternality in every experience of love. You may not always get it, but that is what you will seek. You will seek this because this is what love is, and at some deep place you know that, because you are love, and through the expression of love you are seeking to know and to experience Who and What You Are.

You are life expressing life, love expressing love, God expressing God.

All these words are therefore synonymous. Think of them as the same thing: God, Life, Love, Unlimited, Eternal, Free.

Anything which is not one of these things is not any of these things.

You are all of those things, and you will seek to experience yourself as all of these things sooner or later. It depends on when you get over your fear.

Well, this is fundamentally the general essence of Love. But how does this apply to any of us? How does it apply to our daily lives?

Your own experience teaches you one thing — that loving everyone full out is the most joyful thing you can do. And when it comes to loving, you have to realize that Love has no requirements. That’s what makes it love. If your love for another carries requirements, then it is not love at all, but some counterfeit version.

Within the context of marriage, for example, there is an exchange of vows that love does not require. Yet you require them, because you do not know what love is. And so you make each other promise what love would never ask.  The way I see your construction of marriage, it is the ultimate announcement of fear.

If marriage allowed you to be unlimited, eternal, and free in your love, then it would be the ultimate announcement of love.

As things are now, you become married in an effort to lower your love to the level of a promise or a guarantee.

Marriage is an effort to guarantee that “what is so” now will always be so. If you didn’t need this guarantee, you would not need marriage. And how do you use this guarantee? First, as a means of creating security and second, if that security is not forever forthcoming, as a means of punishing each other, for the marriage promise which has been broken can now form the basis of the lawsuit which has been opened.

You have thus found marriage very useful — even if it is for all the wrong reasons.

Marriage is also your attempt to guarantee that the feelings you have for each other, you will never have for another. Or, at least, that you will never express them with another in the same way (sexually).

Hmm… I think we are getting a little side-tracked here. How about going back to ra’s statement: true love is full of hardships and sacrifices. Why is that so when You were describing love so beautifully?

Love is indeed beautiful. It’s just that many of you choose to lower it into something less. It also appears to be full of hardships and sacrifices because you have yet to re-member the Truth. The Truth will set you free.

The Truth is you and I are One. He, she, and you are One. We are all One. And thus in order to truly love another, you have to first truly love yourself. Only when you truly understand this Truth will you be able to realize that love is indeed not difficult nor full of sacrifice. Loving yourself is the first step and you will understand more as we talk about the Ultimate Truth on our next entry.

But wait… how can You and I be One? How can I, who is weak, limited, and powerless be equal to You? How can he, she, and I be One, when we exist separately?

That is what we call the Divine Dichotomy. That two things which appears contradictory to each other, exists at the same time, at the same space. We will talk more about this on our next entry.

Alright! We’ll do that. Going back to love, there are so many questions… so many things yet to discuss. But I guess, we’ll have to talk about them on future entries. Let this be our first entry about Love. Then as more questions come in, we will create more entries for this.