The Key to Everything is Love.



Jesus identified completely with love, and he is absolute about it: “By this sign everyone will know that you are my disciples, that you love one another.” (John 13:35) Love is certainly the word most associated with Jesus.

Jesus treats love as something radical, a life-changing event. Love will bring God back into our existence. Love will make peace with our enemies and bring joy into our hearts.

What makes love new? This question needs to be posed in every generation; it’s the seed of the spiritual quest. If you cannot discover what divine love actually is, no temple can supply it for you second-hand. Like every organized religion, Christianity long ago abandoned love as a radical path to transformation, paying ceremony and respect to Jesus’s words about loving thy neighbor while sanctioning war and intolerance. In this way the Church succeeded in becoming acceptable to society, with its age-old habit of violence, but it never solved the riddle posed by Jesus’s cardinal tenet: How could a person possibly love anyone else—neighbor, enemy, or family—as much as he loves himself?

At the level of the ego this challenge is impossible to solve. “I” will always be more important than “you.” Even deep romantic love, which in the beginning seems to merge two people completely, can turn to division and hatred if my beloved betrays me. The intensity of a mother’s love for her child can be self-serving or turn the child into a spoiled brat. The root of the problem is that divine love is divided from human love by a great gap. As we have already seen, this is a chasm of consciousness, and only consciousness can fill it.

Human love depends upon relationships. The people who are closest to me get my love; those who are far away from me don’t. In my relationships, I expect to give and to receive. Others must deserve the love I hold out, and if they don’t, I withdraw it. By contrast divine love is freely given and unearned. God’s grace trancends any relationship. God cannot relate any differently to one person than to another. Jesus makes this point very clearly when he says that God loves and forgives the wicked. They haven’t earned love through any action or love directed toward God. All they had to do was to exist. To be is to be loved by God.

The only viable way to follow Jesus’s teachings on love is to match them with your own level of consciousness.

Reality changes in different states of consciousness, and the same holds true for love. At lower levels of awareness our experience is dominated by the need to survive, and there are many threats to well-being. Love is experienced as temporary and far to weak to overcome the threat of violence. At this level we feel victimized; we see no sign that God is watching, much less caring for us. In the midst of such experiences, divine grace seems a remote promise, at best. In order for grace to work, life must change, and for life to change, consciousness must change first.

This is why love provides the perfect litmus test. Each of us begins with an awareness that love has failed in many ways. We know we don’t love our enemies; at times we doubt that we love our nearest and dearest as much as we should. We often act out of motives totally contrary to love, such as greed and selfishness. We look around and see little evidence that God loves us in the redemptive way that Jesus says he does. Evidence of our inner growth is elusive and sometimes deceptive; we can pretend to be better than we really are or to see God in every cloud or flower. But Jesus’s love is far more than a feeling of well-being and contentment. Its truth is connected to power. Its dawning is a radical experience and a sure sign that consciousness has been raised to the highest level.

Jesus’s teachings are truly learned only when you become the teaching. There is already something deeply instinctive about love in all of us. Yet innate as love may seem, we didn’t become love. We pick and choose whom to give our love to, but when the switch is turned off, we can be completely unloving. The lesson about divine love that Jesus taught is that love is so full of grace, it leads to transformation: it changes a person’s whole being.

Grace Abounding

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be children of your father in heaven; for he makes the sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous.” (Matthew 5:43-45)

This passage presents in capsule form everything that makes divine love so beautiful and yet so hard to live by. How can Jesus expect us to be like God and express love everywhere? The clue lies in the two images he chose: the sun and the rain. These are the basis of life, the very source of nourishment. Jesus is pointing us to our own source. There is a level of awareness inside everyone that is as steady as the sun and as life-giving as rain. This is pure Being, and without a connection to it, loving your enemy is impossible. For me, this passage is one of the clearest dividing lines between everyday consciousness and the higher state of consciousness that Jesus was teaching about. In another place, he says, “What is impossible for mortal is possible for God.” Those words apply to loving your enemy, but instead of leaving it to God, we ourselves can rise to a level where love of everyone is spontaneous and natural.

Love Should Be Total

‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.” This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second is like it: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. (Matthew 22:37-40)

As beautiful and famous as this passage is, it’s also one of the most divisive. Christians have split between the select few who can devote their whole lives to loving God and the vast majority who spend an occasional hour on Sunday loving him. But this is a false division, because the underlying assumption is that Jesus was talking about enormous amounts of time and effort. What he was actually talking about was wholeness. If your whole mind is given to loving God, a change occurs. The mind is no longer fragmented and distracted. It has found its source, which is God, and thus loving God is completely natural. To imply that this is a struggle is like saying that love of music is a struggle that leaves time for nothing else. The opposite is true. If you deeply love music or anything else, your love comes as naturally as breathing. This is what Jesus intended when it came to loving God.

Love Is Innocent

But when Jesus saw this, he was indignant and said to them, “Let the little children come to me; do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of God belongs. Truly I tell you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will never enter it.” (Matthew 10:14-15)

As if to underscore that love of God should be natural and spontaneous, Jesus compares it to the love of a child for his parents. By implication, everything we have learned about love as adults should be unlearned. Love that is selfish, conditional, and demanding cannot be turned into love for God. It must be transcended instead.

Live with Grace

“But love your enemies, do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return. Your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked. Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.” (Luke 6:35-36)

Aware that people need to rise from their present state to a higher one, Jesus told them to live as if they were already there. Both aspects must be taken into account. It takes time to follow the spiritual path, gradually shifting one’s beliefs and perceptions. Yet God supports any effort in the right direction, and therefore the best way to live at this very minute is with the knowledge that grace is real, even if that knowledge is not truly present without a shift in consciousness.

Love as I Love You

“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another.” (John 13:34)

The Old Testament already commands peope to love one another, so what is new about this commandment lies in the words just as I have loved you. Jesus is emphasizing that it is important to love in God’s fashion, not in the ordinary way. The Gnostics understood this, which is why their version reads, “Love your brother like your soul, guard him like the pupil of your eye.” (Thomas 46) Only when another person is as close to you as your own soul is your love like Jesus’s.

Love Earns Forgiveness

Then turning toward the woman, he said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I entered your house; you gave me no water for my feet, but she has bathed my feet with her tears and dried them with her hair. You gave me no kiss, but from the time I came in she has not stopped kissing my feet. You did not anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with ointment. Therefore, I tell you, her sins, which were many, have been forgiven; hence she has shown great love. But the one to whom little is forgiven, loves little.” (Luke 7:44-47)

Jesus loved the humble because they did not set obstacles before his love. They served without ego, having no social status to lose. But the broader lesson here is that the ego blocks spiritual growth. Just as pride keeps some from greeting Jesus with love, it will keep them from greeting their own souls. Jesus also said on several occasions that he was sent to help those who needed love, which included not only the poor and weak, but also the wicked. He compared himself to a doctor whose attention goes to the sick, since the well don’t need healing.

“If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask for whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit and be my disciples. As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete.” (John 15:7-11)

This is one of the longest and most eloquent passages in which Jesus describes divine love. Here he invites the reader to become part of Jesus, uniting with him in  a love as intimate as the love of oneself. What is most moving, however, is the final part, when Jesus says that our love for him makes his joy complete. Too often we assume that Jesus is complete without us, that we need him but he doesn’t need us. In a very human way Jesus says otherwise. His purpose is to fulfill God’s will by bringing love to everyone, and the birth of a new humanity will ultimately make Christ fulfilled.

Nothing is more important, then, than rescuing Jesus’s teaching of love for his sake.

All of the above, taken from: The Third Jesus by Deepak Chopra

“It is the combination of thought and love which forms the irresistable force of the law of attraction.” Charles Haanel

There is no greater power in the Universe than the power of love. The feeling of love is the highest frequency you can emit. If you could wrap every thought in love, if you could love everything and everyone, your life would be transformed.

In fact, some of the greatest thinkers of the past referred to the law of attraction as the law of love. And if you think about it, you will understand why. If you think unkind thoughts about someone else you will experience those unkind thoughts manifested. You cannot harm another with your thoughts, you only harm You. If you think thoughts of love, guess who receives the benefits—-you! So if your predominant state is love, the law of attraction or the law of love responds with the mightiest force because you are on the highest frequency possible. The greater the love you feel and emit, the greater the power you are harnessing.

The above taken from: The Secret by Rhinda Byrne

“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.” (1 Cor 13:13)

“If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal,” (1 Cor 13:1)

“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails,” (Cor. 13:4-8)

In order to achieve this type of love, we need to raise our consciousness. How do we do that? Simply ask our Father to unveil our minds to the truth, ask him to enlighten our understanding, then everyday spend time alone in a quiet place and let him begin to speak to our true identilty, the seed within, your inner man or woman. “Be still, and know that I am God” (Psalm 46:10)