Another aspect of affinity with another form is male/female. You have a love toward your mother that might be called ‘personal’. One being that this form has come out of another form – called your mother – and so there is an affinity of this form with that other form. It sometimes happens that the form has an affinity with other forms. The human is the form, the being is the formless, the timeless consciousness itself. The two dimensions that the human being embodies are the ‘human’ and the ‘being’. We are in the relative as form, and in the absolute as formless consciousness. We need to remember to understand true love and other forms of so-called love. Maybe one or two at this moment are “in love”, and those who have experienced it have also experienced “falling out of love”. For example, “falling in love”…perhaps most of us have experienced it. There may be substitutes, things that are called “love” but are not true love. As long as the conditioned mind operates and you are completely identified with it, there’s no true love.

The recognition of the other as yourself in essence – not the form – is true love. If you cannot recognize the formless in yourself, you cannot recognize yourself in the other. Without recognition of the formless within yourself, there can be no true transcendental love.

Q: If we’re all one, why do we feel drawn toward certain individuals in an expression of “personal love”?ĮT: True love is transcendental.

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