Human love usually has a particular focus: a person, a place, a shared history. Its tenderness and generosity are real. So, often, are the expectations that accompany it—the wish to be understood, the fear of loss, or the need to be loved in return.
Divine love seems less dependent on these conditions. In the moments I recognise, it does not wait for circumstances to suit me. Nor does it seem to arise from my judgement that someone or something deserves to be loved. There is a freedom from personal preference that makes the experience feel quite different from my ordinary emotions.
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Before we address ‘divine love’, let us look at the one syllable, one-word state we call ‘love’. There are probably more paintings, music, poetry and artworks created that have love as their theme than almost any other emotion. However, because the machine is naturally subjective, when one person utters this word they mean one […]
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Rainer Maria Rilke[1] advises us that love is difficult. One reason for this is that our being is inclusive of others. We can see in each other only what we have in ourselves. As a contemporary spiritual teacher put it, “We are disappointed in others with what we are disappointed in ourselves.” Sharing one’s instinctive and […]
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Be brave, be strong, but be mostly kind; To heaven look but leave not earth behind. Our friends encircled are the air we breathe; Walk with care so you are not deceived. Love is the honey that feeds our life. It pours into moments and makes ease our strife, Imbuing cares into life which reality […]
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How clearly we perceive, express, and abide in Divine Love depends upon our transparency—how freely Love shines through us. I believe we are transparent by nature, yet our minds can grow cloudy with anxiety, judgment, and craving until we become absorbed in ourselves and lose sight of what is always there.
As the mind becomes quieter, Love reveals itself in simple awareness and direct experience of being alive.
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Real Love is directed toward the Divine and gradually dissolves the sense of separation.
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By letting go of all the imitation that one has picked up in one’s life. If taken far enough, one can discover the Self one was born to be–and experience the limitlessness of divine love.
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What are the forms of love coming down to us from the works of the ancient Greeks? The phrase “ἄγαμαι ἄγαν – agamai agan” signifies “αγαπώ άκρως – agapo akros”–loving intensely, being filled with ecstasy, and marveling at the whole of Being in a single moment. The Light of Love Love acts as a driving, unifying, and revitalizing force—permeates […]
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Conscious Love is not the love that rises and passes, but the current beneath all currents, the single thread upon which the stars and the human heart are strung.
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“We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.” ~ Bernard of Clairvaux
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From Rodney Collin: Really, we can only love each other for any length of time in relation to what we are going to become and to what we serve. As we are and without common allegiance to the highest, however many different forms that may take, we can neither give nor merit lasting love.
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"The friendship of those in esoteric work must be a human one, but I feel that if it is only a human one—however understanding—it is doomed to degenerate. Really, we can only love each other for any length of time in relation to what we are going to become and to what we serve."
Rodney Collin, The Theory of Conscious Harmony
"Real love does not stop at a person or an object; if it is real, it goes on to God. Nothing real ever disappears. If it disappears it is not real.”
Rodney Collin, The Theory of Conscious Harmony
