Re: Loving and Surrendering

"The only real love, is holy love, for everything, all the time." I think your whole entire last paragraph is what love is ...


Love is the connection we feel with others. Furthermore it is the connection between all things. The stronger we love, the stronger we feel love when we are loved. A person who cannot "love", is likely never to feel love, no matter how much s/he is loved. It seems that there are so many people who are constantly waiting for love to happen to them. I think when you have love for others, you feel the love that others have for you. Its all the same intense love whether its a parent, a sibling, or other relative, a friend, or a lover or for the birds, trees, rocks, planets ... all things. I think that all love begins with self. In order for you to love others with your whole heart and being one must love oneself. This includes forgiving oneself for one's faults. True self-love is not a fault or a hinderence, indeed it is a requirement for true enlightenment.

While there are other aspects within relationships that nourish the ego (or not ...) love ultimately is what binds us to one another -- it is (imo) the Christ -- the only begotten son of God. Jesus earned the title Christ because, as you write, he epitomized God's love for mankind. His sacrifice was devoting his life to teaching us how to attain life everlasting -- how to free ourselves from the prison of our senses. He did not deny the material world. He taught that each has its place. But, we are all born of God and of love (we are all brothers in Christ). This is one of the teachings of communion. To the extent that we lose that connection w/God and/or one another -- we lose our ability to love and to feel the love that others have for us.

p.s. "te amo" in Spanish denotes what you term "holy" love.

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