Love while I can't fully define it or simply explain it, I know for sure without a doubt is what we are and encompasses all our aspects: the dark, the light, the joy, the hurt, the aggressor, the carer, the guide, the lost, the needy, the needless...unconditional in our experience shows up as "without judgement". The greatest pain to me is realizing I withheld love from myself, I judged myself. That's so far where I am when it comes to unconditional love 💖
💖 You write so beautifully, it really read like a poem. In particular the first parts. Thank you for this exploration of what love isn't and what love "might be". I have come to realize, all I can say with certainty is what unconditional love isn't (all of what you said including judgement), but that's where I stop. I can say what it's not but unconditional love is undefinable at this time for me. There is one part I would explore with you, where you wrote "Right and wrong, should and shouldn’t. Good and evil. This is what we got. This is as much a function of nature as pain and fear." I'm certain this duality is not natural. It is artificial. That knowing is liberating. 🙏🏼
Thank you Bita, and I love the point of recognizing that you could honestly only say what unconditional love is not.
Since I read Karl Popper’s theory of falsification back in university 2010, it actually became one of my strongest influences for reasoning, when doing my best to deal with the awakening experience that later followed. That works for me personally .. it doesn’t however for the drivenness in me to reach others. I find love to be the most important principle. And nearly impossible to speak.
How do you go about conveying unconditional love?
Or is your focus something else entirely?
I’m gradually moving towards surrendering any attempts to speak anything. To simply unapologetically be myself. And with others: simply listen and ask, listen and ask.
Love while I can't fully define it or simply explain it, I know for sure without a doubt is what we are and encompasses all our aspects: the dark, the light, the joy, the hurt, the aggressor, the carer, the guide, the lost, the needy, the needless...unconditional in our experience shows up as "without judgement". The greatest pain to me is realizing I withheld love from myself, I judged myself. That's so far where I am when it comes to unconditional love 💖
Beautiful! ❤️🙏
💖 You write so beautifully, it really read like a poem. In particular the first parts. Thank you for this exploration of what love isn't and what love "might be". I have come to realize, all I can say with certainty is what unconditional love isn't (all of what you said including judgement), but that's where I stop. I can say what it's not but unconditional love is undefinable at this time for me. There is one part I would explore with you, where you wrote "Right and wrong, should and shouldn’t. Good and evil. This is what we got. This is as much a function of nature as pain and fear." I'm certain this duality is not natural. It is artificial. That knowing is liberating. 🙏🏼
Thank you Bita, and I love the point of recognizing that you could honestly only say what unconditional love is not.
Since I read Karl Popper’s theory of falsification back in university 2010, it actually became one of my strongest influences for reasoning, when doing my best to deal with the awakening experience that later followed. That works for me personally .. it doesn’t however for the drivenness in me to reach others. I find love to be the most important principle. And nearly impossible to speak.
How do you go about conveying unconditional love?
Or is your focus something else entirely?
I’m gradually moving towards surrendering any attempts to speak anything. To simply unapologetically be myself. And with others: simply listen and ask, listen and ask.