If I want love, I can’t have it. I am love, and as long as I seek it from you, I can’t know that. To love you is to separate. I am love, and that is as close as it can get.
And more:
To exclude anything that appears in your universe is not love. Love joins with everything. It doesn’t exclude the monster. It doesn’t avoid the nightmare— it looks forward to it.
Relates to something I wrote a while back on GF:
I don't know if this will make any sense to anybody but I'll put it out here anyway. I was just feeling that it's possible to include and accept other people and their behavior as being part of your own experience, your own self, and in that sense, you take responsibility for everyone (including RB or someone else that you strongly disagree with). Not responsibility in the sense that you have caused them to do something or responsibility that you should cause them to act a certain way, but responsibility in the sense that this, too, is myself, and it becomes a relief. There is no need to change others, because there are no others. Then it occurred to me for some reason that this is the actual meaning of the term "repent". Not in the literal Christian sense of being sorry and feeling remorse. That it has nothing to do with wrongdoing/sin/guilt. In this same context it then also started to make sense that "Jesus took on the sins of the world and redeemed the world" - another religious tenet that had never made any sense to me in its literal interpretation. But now it kind of has a meaning. So that's neat. :)
A propos, Adyashanti and Loch Kelly on the opening of the heart:
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