you are love

In my blog entry yesterday I made the comment:

If it needs a human mind in order to exist then it is not true. There are some things that we only think we need our minds to exist but that is because we do not understand what they really are. Love, for example. What we believe to be love is not love at all. It is a creation of our minds; it is a creation of dependence and of selfish need. Even the purest form of Human love is quite conditional in contrast to real love; which is a thing that cannot be described or even discussed. It simply is, and because there are not two things, it is God.

Love is the state of God simply being. Love is not between God and something else for there is nothing else.

Today I was thinking about this and I thought I’d like to talk more about it. I think there are a lot of people in the world who would take exception to being told that they do not know how to love, just as there are people in this world who take exception to the idea that there is no such thing as evil. People do not like the suggestion that they are on the same level with characters like Adolf Hitler or Jeffrey Dahmer.

When we do reach our destination, though, and we are able to transcend space and time, we will “see” that none of these things ever really existed. We will see that any pain we ever thought we knew, either as a race or an individual, was nothing when compared to the eternal love of being with God, as one. Once we see this we will know that we had never actually left and that all of this that we have believed to be real was nothing more than a fleeting dream.

When we offer our love and forgiveness to our brothers and sisters, we offer it to ourselves; because we are one. When we offer our judgment and our hatred we offer that to ourselves, as well. When we judge one another we judge God and his intentions.

We do not have to work for the love of God and we cannot do anything that will cost us the love of God for that is what we are. We do not understand what we are.

There isn’t really a path for we are already there. If everything is one thing then the journey is the destination and so we are already surrounded by the God that we seek. We are already one with God and we have already arrived in Heaven. We never left.

Love is not ours to give and take from one another. Love is undying and the only choice we have is to accept that we are loved or to deny it; though, to deny that we are loved is not to change the truth; that we are. To love another is to remove ego from the equation and allow, within your own mind, another to receive the love of God, which it is not yours to decide to begin with. This is only for yourself that you can make this choice, which is really a choice between happiness and despair. It is really the choice to allow yourself to feel the love of God that is already yours in the first place.

When we love another in our human way it is a selfish love and it is not real. We equate love with wanting and they are not the same thing for to want is an illusion because we already have all that we could every truly need.

Love is not within our control for love is what we are, not something that we do.