An Essay on Our Times
This Is How
Love
WE CREATE
It is my longing that makes me love you intensely,
For I yearn to be loved from the heart.
It is my eternity that makes me love you long,
For I have no end.
– Mechtild of Magdeburg,
German mystic of the Beguines, 1282
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ove is mystical in the sense that science is not yet able to
quantify it. But science does agree that how we view
reality is held within our brain.
We don’t really know what real love is until we experience it
clearly. Many times we fall in love and then wonder, “Was that
really love, or was that love false?” We get baffled by love, we
get betrayed by love, we get let down by love, and then our
human story of loss unfolds and disappointment becomes our
belief of love.
Clarity of Love Is the Resurrection in the Faith of Love
We are now on the precipice of a great change, a great
momentum in the history of humanity- The Age of Surprise.
We’re seeing globally what the lie of love looks like, what false
promises look like, what false judgment looks like. We are
seeing the lie in front of us so we can learn how not to lie. The
essence of true love cannot lie.
We Are Here to Love
We were born to flourish in the potential of our birthright, love.
Love is the dream you cried out as you birthed from your
mother’s womb screaming, “I am here, I am here, I have
arrived!” We spend the rest of our lives trying to find our
true voice, the clarity of love, again.
There Are Many Kinds of Love
There is the great love of the Divine Presence, the bliss, the
Oneness of All. That love actually transcends our human
experience. It is the state wherein the one are many and
the many are one. The experience of the oneness of being
is the blissful experience of communion with a Greater
Reality and is the most wonderful and fulfilling kind of love.
It is still not enough, though, because we are human. Even
experiencing that incredible place of oneness that the
Yogis speak of, we are still left with a longing for the human
experience of love, the closeness of a companion, the
warmth of a community. Having experienced the
transcendental state of love many times, I’ve come to
believe that to truly transform as humans, to be truly
enlightened, we must experience both of these types of
love- the divine love and the human love. To deny oneself
of one or the other is like eating a piece of cake while
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