Love Is:

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Everyone is acquainted with the kind of love that is celebrated in songs, poems, commercials, and high-school romances. This kind of love is beautiful, but I want to speak about love in its essence, in its most profound sense. Love is an important aspect of Truth. Without love, there is no Truth.
Without Truth, there is no Love.
Anyone who has been lucky enough to experience very deep and embodied love knows that love transcends all experiences and emotions. If you have experienced this love, you know that it is present even when you are not in the feeling state called love. If it is not real love, as soon as you fall out of the feeling state, you realize the feeling is all you had; it's like a car that just ran out of gas. That's not the real love, the deepest love, the foundation of love. When you really love, you know that love transcends all experiences. For example, a mother loves her child even when the child is driving her up the wall. She knows that even in difficult times when she is upset, there is still love. If you have ever loved a friend, you know there is love even when you don't feel it, even when it is a difficult time. The deepest, deepest caring transcends all experiences.
Of course there are many different expressions of love. But when you point to any experience of true love, you know love exists even in the absence of that experience. Every time you name it, or say "This is how love is" or "This is how love feels," you notice that it also exists in the absence of that definition. You can't really get your hands around it and say, "This is what true love really is," because it transcends that. It's kind of like a self. It can't be found. So you might say, "I can't find a self so there must not be one." And yet there is something that is awake and shinning and conscious, even if that something is radiant nothingness.
In the same way, the love aspect of Truth is always present when Truth is present. This love transcends the ebb and flow of emotions; it is a love that is always open. If you extract your openness, then love is dead, Truth is dead. This love is something that causes us to be deeply connected in some unspoken way, and it happens when we are available, really open. Words neither amplify nor take away from it. When we turn our attention to that which is unspoken, there it is. There is the connection~something beautiful, something intimate happening. When we are open in this unspoken way, we feel as though openness meets openness.
True love has nothing to do with liking someone, agreeing with him or her, or being compatible. It is a love of unity, a love of seeing God wearing all the masks and recognizing itself in them all. Without it, Truth becomes an abstraction that is sort of cool and analytical, and that is not the real Truth. The Truth exposes itself in the willingness to open to this intimate connectedness with everything.
It may seem a little strange to hear this because we were once taught that the connection of love is to be reserved for special moments, with special people, in special circumstances. It's taboo to have this connection be indiscriminate. You may have thought, "I'll save it for you, and you, and you~ but the rest of you are pretty scary." But this that is awake, this love that transcends all description, when it is known as a deep connection and deep unity, this love is indiscriminate. It doesn't know how to turn itself on and off. That switch is only in the mind. This love is always on. It loves saints and sinners equally.
That's real love.
Many of the stories of Jesus describe this kind of love. People around him were constantly telling him what wasn't lovable: "This prostitute, we'll stone her to death. God doesn't love people like that." But Jesus, totally connected, knew this love is indiscriminate. It doesn't come because someone is nice or noble. It just is. It love everyone indiscriminately. Most of his ministry was founded upon this kind of love. It was even expressed for those who were responsible for his death. He said, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." That comes from the love that just will not stop, even in the face of death. That is the voice of love. The mind may say, "Hey, they are going to kill me. I have a right to withhold love."
But the Truth doesn't operate by law; it doesn't play by the rules of the game that the mind would make up. It loves anyway. Make no mistake: this love doesn't have anything to do with you becoming noble, holy, and worthy. This is a love that's preexisting. It has always been here and always will be here. It's a love that simply is!
You had to discount this love to get on with the business of being a separate self, but still it existed. And this is actually our greatest fear, to find out that you love all sorts of things and people that your mind would rather not love. Possibly the only fear greater than death is love, real love.

So what have you forgotten all these years? It's rather simple if you think about it. You'll easily remember~ Who are you, really..deep down..before you were born? Without a name, identity? The people that put that name on you: Joe Blow, Terry Lynn, Jane Doe, etc.
Well, there's a conspiracy going on, that you musnt know about this. Were all God
They worked it out in Christianity, by cleverness that only one would be the almighty God. And nobody else could be....and he was swished up to heaven. He wouldn't bother us anymore.
And Jesus Christ said, he was Jesus Christ and everyone put him down for it. And that's what the whole system is doing with everyone on this planet.
So how strong is your belief system?

"You contain the knowledge of God without concepts."
A non-conceptional Blank Mind~thought, perception, any kind of sensory concepts. This is God.

We are "One!"

"Emptiness Dancing" By: Adyashanti