I suspect the reason unconditional love is so difficult to do is because it requires us to go against our pseudo "survival" instinct. The reasoning mind will always legislate for itself, and getting our own wants met masquerades in our mind as survival. Putting another's needs before our wants just feels wrong...especially when the other is someone who has just stepped on our toes or who makes us uncomfortable in any way.
On paper, unconditional love is like my budget on paper...nothing but good, personally beneficial and reasonable into the bargain. Doing unconditional love, like sticking to my budget, is a horse of another color.
Everybody wants to get
unconditional love, everybody thinks they want to give it. It is in the trying to do it that we learn the truth...it requires a total denial of self.
The paradox of unconditional love: We cannot get it, we can only give it, and the only thing standing in our way is our willingness to do it.
Thank You.
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