This is a beautiful piece written by a dear friend and it seems appropriate to share on this thread as it surpasses all boundaries of science, religion and spirituality.
For me this really sums up oneness from a man's perspective and it brings joy to my heart and soul to see that a man who considers himself to be very much a man's man, can write such a beautiful explanation of love with such great humility.
LOVE
It's only fairly recently that I've come to understand how Love relates to creation and to material energy. So for many years a lot was said in such spiritual texts which my eyes just glazed over with. Take this quote above: How can this thing, the sphere in Julian's hand, or our lives continue to exist now, "through the love of God"? And I never REALLY understood "God is Love".
I've come to understand that when East and West talk of the Trinity (Father, Son, Holy Spirit; Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva; etc), it's a key to the physics of the whole universe. Yet to use the term "physics" implies material, clock-work processes, and I don't mean that. All apparently material energies, processes, and objects are related to Consciousness.
Getting back to Love. I now have the understanding, IMHO, that God can be described as Love, Life, and Light, the foremost of which is Love. For out of Love comes Life, and out of Life comes Light including the whole physically-known electromagnetic spectrum which creates known energy and matter. All originally stems from what in words we can only call Divine Love.
You see, I used to think "love" was just a "feeling" and therefore even something insubstantial. How wrong I was. Why, the very electrons and atomic particles will follow one's projection of Love in the way all the bees of a hive will follow the queen. It's the key behind how things manifest, and it's the key behind miracles too. In place of Love one might use "Right Desire". What we project our desires toward, which is really to love that desired thing, attracts matter and energy to it and hence it can appear. (Yes, some people 'love' or desire and therefore receive wrong things too.)
How wonderfully this relates, then, to the Love of God creating the Universe, or that He/She formed us by 'His' Love! But I always like to be practical, not just metaphysical without purpose, so there's always the thought of, "What does this mean WE can DO, or should do? And the key is within Love, for by it we make things happen, grow, come to us, heal.
So once I thought that love was an insubstantial 'feeling'. Now I know Love to be an Energy, a Quality, a Consciousness, a Beingness, a Light, a Substance, a Flame. Just one concrete example: it relates to gravity (the attractive force), which otherwise is a totally mysterious force, yet is affecting all who read this in this very moment. So Divine Love is everywhere and eternally imminent.
Gradually, through the understanding of Love, all the sacred texts such as Catherine's Dialogue, "Conversations With God", Julian of Norwich, the Bhagavad Gita, and on and on, all reveal their clues and secrets....
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Love beyond measure
Kimxxx