THE REAL VERSUS THE IMAGINED

Instead of simply experiencing love, being love, our narrators explain how love should feel: what makes us worthy of love; who should love us and how they express it; what we need to do or achieve to love ourselves; and what others need to do to receive our love in return.

When we begin to believe the narrators’ analysis of what love should be and become attached to that belief, we begin to impose it on ourselves and others, thus creating a distorted reflection of love. The narrators can convince us that if we can achieve an imagined perfection, we will be so full of love that life will be smooth going from that point on. But what has really happened is we have just made love conditional.

Practice

Unconditional love occurs the moment we stop labeling, judging, and discerning that which appears in our field of awareness. Everything is perfect exactly as it is. This includes you, too.

Living a Life of Awareness

~ Don Miguel Ruiz Jr.