Impersonal Love
We love our parents, our children, our pets, our partners, and our dear friends. And perhaps chocolate too.
But what prevents us from loving a stranger and telling them, “I Love You”?
The majority of us give and receive love personally. We’re selective about who we love and how we love them. And there’s nothing wrong with that… it’s what we’ve learned!
We have different types of love for our different relationships. We love our children one way, our partner another, and our friends in yet another way.
And then oh, when our teen or partner pisses us off, that love disappears. It becomes conditional. And when the right conditions appear again, we feel and transmit that love once again.
Love is the heartbeat of the universe. It’s the pulse of life.
Impersonal Love
Love is how we can exist. Love underlies all of creation as we know it here on Earth.
Imagine if that Love was conditional? Imagine if, when we polluted our bodies or the Earth, that Love was withdrawn? The very heartbeat of our race would cease to exist.
But the Love of creation is all-encompassing. It’s unconditional. It’s impersonal. When we goof up, Universal Love is not withdrawn, it keeps pouring forth (whether we’re open to receiving it is another story). It doesn’t discriminate the thief from the saint. Just as the sun doesn’t shine differently upon them.
My hope for you on this Blessed Valentine’s Day is that you experience and embrace Impersonal Love. A Love that does not differ whether you think of the beggar on the street or your children.
It is this Love that is unending and unconditional.
It is this Love that fills our bodies and life with passion.
It is this Love that heals this world and lifts the human race into its limitless potential.
Happy Valentine’s Day.
I Love You.
Hi Christine,
This is a wonderful concept to “love the stranger” also. It is sort of along the lines of the Christian ethic of “welcoming the stranger”.
Hi Dave,
Yes. We are all brothers and sisters on this planet. Cells of the same body. Imagine if our heart cells fought with our lung cells? Yes, they appear separate with different functions, but they are both uniquely necessary for the functioning of the whole. And so it is with each individual. When we embrace the other as though they were our own, our world will transform. xo Christine
I too love this concept đź’ˇ we all need to love each other and yes we would all be happier and would feel lighter and not congested with with negatively. I love you Christine!
Beautiful, Tracey! Thanks for sharing! And it’s wonderful to know that you’re out there being an impersonal love machine! xoxo