Eckhart Tolle speaks about love in a very simple way, cutting right through the cultural baggage that we have collected around the word love throughout human history. He demonstrates that we tend to “feel” love from either one of these two places – Ego or Soul.
“To the ego, loving and wanting are the same, whereas true love has no wanting in it, no desire to possess or for your partner to change.” – Eckhart Tolle
Loving from our Ego equals wanting, needing, a desire to possess, to become somehow more by adding something from the outside. And so “falling in love” really means that my Ego’s “want” has increased in its magnitude.
Whereas getting beyond our ego, we experience that love is the default state of our Soul.
“Love is a state of being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it and it can never leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.” – Eckhart Tolle
You might have heard questions and answers that try to explore love by describing what the opposite of love is… is hate the opposite of love? Is it apathy? Or maybe fear?
“True love has no opposite. If your love has an opposite it is not love, but a strong ego.” – Eckhart Tolle
Love doesn’t have an opposite. Love just IS! What is all-encompassing can have no opposite…
But even though you can never lose love and it can never leave you, you can absolutely feel disconnected from the love that is “somewhere” inside of you. And being disconnected from love can certainly feel like hate, and apathy, and… fear. Definitely FEAR. Being disconnected from love is a scary place to be and then, is it any wonder the lengths that people will go to in order to try and reach for something or someone to try and feel connected to love again?
“Love is the recognition of oneness in the world of duality.” – Eckhart Tolle
“To love is to recognize yourself in another.” – Eckhart Tolle
“Feeling the oneness of yourself with all things is true love.” – Eckhart Tolle
These last three quotes speak of a deep experience of SELF. A deep knowing of SELF and then recognizing that what I have found in SELF, I am finding EVERYWHERE!
Isn’t it just so clear and so simple?
What you have been looking for, IS the one who’s looking! You ARE the love you have been seeking and when you truly get this… you will be IN LOVE (in a state of love) with everyone and everything around you <3
A few guiding mantras to step into your radiant truth:
- Love isn’t found, it’s recognized.
- You are whole, complete, already love.
- See yourself in all, and love will overflow.
Have a BEAUTIFUL Friday!
– pierre –
Today’s LIVE meditation is: Sharing love.