Just a little warning to start off this blog post. What you read that follows may have the taste of insane hippie, or might shake some of those assumptions by which we all live our lives. So if you want your world to remain intact and without some questions being introduced to it, then you might want to skip this post.
Still, it is just discussing Love, so maybe it will be easier to read and accept than you might otherwise think it could be. I mean, whenever I have experienced Love it has brought more happiness and peace than anything else, even when it has challenged me.
Buckle down, we are going to take a little ride with each other, but just the first steps. This is just like taking those first few steps when you were younger. You are designed for it, so it won’t be too difficult.
Taking a moment to wander down the trails of thought
You’ll notice that we drop a lot of references to Love around the site, and yes the capital L is intentional. Since this term has many definitions and understandings around the world, we feel it worthwhile to define the Love we refer to, and what adopting certain assumptions of that level of Love really means.
The love of which we speak can be most easily defined and understood with the word unconditional. Unconditional is simply broken down: with no condition. This means accepting the conditions of lives that exist outside of our own.
Strangely enough, it is this kind of Love that can be seen to be taught within nearly every single religious frame. But what of this, when the religions also preach tenements of violence and greed, and the finding of superiority in oneself over another.
Unconditional means not judging people from within the condition you live your own life. That narrative in which you live is just a condition, and though it may fill you completely, there may be a condition outside of the one which you have embraced that fills another person.
This seems like an extreme form of Love to some individuals, and that can be understandable, because allowing space for a way of thinking that is not your own can seem to endanger the truths and the life you have lived and held to. But it is this kind of love that we are all drawn to. For perfect logic, feeling, and being points to Love at the center of all we want or need.
So if all we need is Love, how come it is so difficult to show Love to every single human around us? It clearly cannot be our deeper desires, since all of those will be directed at Love—it is, rather, the systems and the orders that we try to imbue on the world around us that create conflict. Attending a dance that is supposed to be all Salsa and then to have classical music be played for half the time as well can frustrate people. The thing is: you don’t have to obey the orders that exist with either musical form. You could invent a completely unique way to move within the classical music, or consider listening to the Salsa music in an analytical way you have never used before.
Unconditional Love teaches us that the only thing that matters is the whole thing, the entire ecosystem in which we live. The one thing that unites us all is the globe beneath our feet, and yet we have such a tendency to forget about Her and forget to extend to Her the same Love She extends to us.
It is sad to think that the heart exposed to true Unconditional Love can still turn to anger and fall prey to those fluctuations, but if it is the principal we are all always striving for, then when someone has a moment of struggle it would be possible to Love that person back to a feeling of peace and reason. But if not, Love can never have any reason to strike back, it requires us to accept when a person takes advantage of our Love, since it can only be caused by an outside form, and cannot come from the pure Loving interior.
I’m plodding too close to the edge of preaching. There is no reason for me to claim any sort of authority to speak on Love, aside from the fact that I can see that it’s capable of creating solutions for the struggles that ill mankind. At the same time, I know people much more intelligent than myself, and also individuals who are more capable of love and patience than myself.
The world is full of beautiful people living on the face of a beautiful planet, surrounded by life in so many beautiful varieties. This is the realization that makes it easier to live in Love, though the systems from which we come will continually want to pull us back into a way of thinking that provides an easier order for the world around us.
Still, there can be nothing of ease in a life that is dictated by work and rewards a closed mind to the many varied voices being carried around it. Chaos is a method for the universe, but Love is the key to overcoming that chaos.
Perhaps I spoke a bit too heavy this time around, and yet I titled the article “Baby Steps,” and that it is, because the conclusions that are brought through considering the world in a lens of Love can cause considerations that many people find disconcerting. That is even at the simplest level of accepting Love.
But if Love is the answer, how can we be disconcerted? Unconditional Love is merciful, so if that is the greatest law of the universe, then will we not also receive the mercy which we show through our Love?