Love is the purest of interactions. Pure love creates no threat and no confusion. Pure love is a sweet and deep and true embrace that is understood and that has nothing to do with relationship. It has only to do with love.

In this place of the truest love, you are not holding a man or a child or a woman; you are holding yourself, and you are holding spirit. There is no question in your mind or your heart or your body. Anything else is not pure love. Anything else is an appeasement to body, to mind, to self. It leads to the confusion — is this a man, a woman, a child, a partner, a friend?

Pure love does not recognize the names of a relationship. It only recognizes the spirit of each sacred being. It recognizes that the gift of love honors that sacredness and empowers that being towards their sacredness. When the heart knows the purest of divine love within it, which is absolutely human and attainable, then all beings receive this love over and over. Love will tell you how. Does it mean to embrace, or not? Does it mean to speak, or not? All these are outer forms of expression. The continuity lies in the heart that feels the beauty and the sacredness of each being and does not bother with position or questions.

Pure love, when given, is recognized as pure love. Love or affection or desire that comes from a less pure place of self and self’s needs will lead to confusion, definition and boundaries. Learn to recognize the experience of pure love, for it is the same as appreciating the beauty of a flower, or the beauty of a man. It is a recognition of beauty, with no desire from the self. It is a recognition of the pain or the need or the emptiness in that flower or man and how to tend to it. For it may not be an embrace. It may be a word. It may be nurturing in terms of a meal, or in terms of listening. Pure love serves only to serve that being, not to serve the self.

So, in its true definition, there is no relationship, for a being giving pure love is not giving from a point of self, but only from love itself. This being is not acquiring or developing relationship for himself or herself, only towards building more love in the world. A relationship is necessary to evolve the self towards love. As long as that self does not fully understand love, a relationship must be chosen to evolve that being towards a true experience of love.

You must choose relationship with integrity and with honesty, recognizing the need in your being to exercise, experience and give love. You must differentiate between the self relationship, where you are learning to receive and give love, and the love that is offered through your being to all beings. This love is not to fulfill self, but only to fulfill love.

Ultimately, and even now in your days, a marriage should be based on the purest of love and have no fear or insecurity towards the outflow of love to any other being. For then it is not based on love, but on fear and insecurity. A being in marriage of pure love should be freed by that very marriage to be a channel for pure love to whoever needs it.

Ultimately, the experience of being in relationship is to be in relationship to love itself, apart from you human brethren, experiencing the tremendous flow of love within your own being, alone. Relationship to love itself is relationship to the divine presence of creation. In that relationship, all aspects of creation are to be embraced.

I am here. Please allow the words now. You ask of this love, it is the entirety of every cell, of every cycle, of every step. It is all you live for, it is all your eyes open for, all that you reach for. It is all existence, it is all cycles and all phases. It is what you break for and what you are born for. And I would challenge you to find a single act that is not a striving for love. It is all you ache for, and all you deaden thy ache for. And when you eat food, your being is wanting to consume love. And when you take in that breath, it is because your being yearns to take in love. The cells know love as the purity of oxygen, and the organs know love as the vitality of substance.

Love is the force, it is the power, it is life. It is what underlies all manifest creation and unmanifest creation. It is this force of love that calls the unmanifest into the manifest. And calls the manifest back into the unmanifest. It is love that sets the cycles and sets the seasons and the phases and the eras of all manifestation. And the word love is utterly inadequate. The word — if there could be one — would include all creation and all uncreated creation. And if that word could be uttered into your consciousness, you would be unconfined, you would be in an explosion of knowing. And yet that explosion occurs in the moments of enlightenment, when just one leaf will serve as an absolute map of all creation or an absolute entry point to total realization of love. One leaf can do this. One stem of one leaf.

As I said last time, I am not above, I am not larger. It is absolute illusion, this large, this bigger than thee. That is your veil, that is your wall that traps you into a half light of knowing. If you were to know who you were, you would also have the answer “what is love”. If you were to let go of this veil, as you will, the answer to that question would be “why, I am love”, and there would cease to be the aching and the yearning and the breaking. There would cease to be the hurry, the tomorrow, and the tomorrow being better than the today. The answer to all those questions is so intricate to your being, to who you are — it makes us cry. You are a capsule of that answer. Those eyes, each of those eyes is the answer, those Lightfilled, beautiful, innocent eyes that each one of you has.

Love. There is nothing but love. What is called the “shadow” and the “darkness” and what is called the “hate” or the “evil” is only a thickened wall, a trapped being, a prison, a great veil against consciousness. So that consciousness condenses down into a little point of I amness. I am alone. I am separate. I am strong in my aloneness and in my separateness. There is only me, there is no-one else. These are the words of the darkness. You don’t want to know the words of the darkness in people. They are the absolute opposite. And they are only the wall thickened, and cemented — like a little enclave within the vastness and the eternity of the presence of love. Love surrounds and penetrates even the capsule of darkness with grace, with peace, with allowance and with compassion. There is nothing but love.

And perhaps this is the greatest question of all, in each of you as individual souls, your journey is seeking that answer. It is seeking, not only the answer “what is love”, but who am I, who am I in this fabric of creation around me? When the answer begins to emerge in you, you will also know the answer of “what is love”. You will know the answer “what is creation”, “what is the universe”, “what is God”, you will know all those answers in one sentence, in one breath, in one place. And that place is in that pulsing, living, eternal core. That seed, what you call the heart. Which is actually the living core of your soul being that inhabits that part of your being which you call the heart. If your body be stripped away, which it has been and shall be again and furthermore when your self be stripped away this remains, that pulsing core, eternal essence. In that core essence, in that place you call the heart, you have no name, you have no boundaries, you have no conditions. Your home is the entirety of all time and all creation. And your relationships are all beings within all time and all creation.

You begin to be aware of the tremendous vulnerability as you view this state. And this leads us to the question of unconditional love, and relationship. Relationship is the crucible for your learning of who you are and what is love, and what is creation. It is relationship that is the crucible — the means. Relationship mirrors to you exactly your occlusions, your veils towards your beauty. And it is in relationship where you continually can see into that mirror, continue to be pushed against that mirror at all times, and evolve. The beings with who you are now in relationship, you think you look into them and see that being, but actually you see yourself. You are seeing yourself. And if you see that being as a beautiful being, a beautiful one, it is because you are seeing yourself. And if you see that one as a one of disorder, it is because you are seeing yourself. And vice-versa. Your relationships are events of resonance. They are situations where your entire being-ness is in resonance to that entire being-ness. It is a great dance, a great interplay. And it is through this mirroring of your resonance that you learn of who you are. It is the immature who points the finger and says “it is you who is disordered, it is you”, it is the mature soul who sees that relationship as the mirror of their own being and knows that they will not see or react to that disorder unless it be their own. At this phase in your being your relationships are based on a conditional state of love. Love is resonance, love is experiencing your own being in the fabric of creation — how it mirrors to you, your own being. Your experience of love is completely conditional to your state of being-ness within. In other words, your experience of creation is conditional to your individual sense of Self within creation. Conditional is in place because of the conditions you put upon your own being, upon your own awareness. I am smaller, I am nothing, I am a being of doubts, I am unworthy. How many of these sentences do you find in your own being. How many conditions do you put upon your experience of creation?

You will experience love to the measure that you can experience yourself as a being of beauty, as a being of worthiness. Can you court the possibility that you are a divinity. That you are as expansive and as wondrous as the night sky? Can you court that thought? When you know the answer “who are you”, you will know the answer “what is love”. And to the extent that you answer, “who am I” with these words, “I’m not much”, “I am sort of ok”, “I am a little bit smart”, “I’m pretty, sometimes” — so your experience of love will be an absolute matching of that. And your experience of consciousness, of the universe, and of the great — what you call “mystery”, it is limited by what you say about yourself. You are a portal — each of you is a portal into the entire presence of God. Each of you is a cell within the entire presence of God. And that entire cell is the entire presence of God. That portal is the whole universe — there is no size, there is no reduction. There are only spherical folds of experience. There is only a vast and intricate, continually unfolding, undefined, nonlinear, no size, no position.

Let it go! If you want to know the answer to “what is love”, let go. Let go of small, let go of big, let go of ugly, unworthy, let go of stupid, let go of fear. What do you fear? Do you fear a field of flowers? That’s what you are! What do you fear? You fear the state of unconditionalness, you fear to lose your veil, your wall, your prison. And yet you pound your wall and you yearn behind your wall, and you eat because you want more. Or you go asleep and you become complacent because the wall doesn’t break. What is unconditional love? Unconditional love is the state of absolute trusting, beyond self, beyond the wall. Absolute trusting, that the entire universe, the entire creation is within your being. That the entire presence of all manifest creation is beautiful, is joyous, a field of flowers. That the intention behind the being speaking here is from there. That the intention within every one of you is ultimately that field of flowers, that beauty. That you take this little globe of distrust and see it as a bitter stone that weights you. Your heart is as wise and as deep as the most awesome teacher upon the earth that you could even conjecture in your storybooks. It is you! Your heart! Do you believe that? Do you think you are thirty or forty, do you believe you are that small, that narrow, that little?

Unconditional love is absolute trust, absolute trust in every pair of eyes that looks upon you. Even if that pair of eyes holds a gun. How can that be? Because that gun is in the hands of the entire being-ness in which you trust, and your moments are moments of trust, your moments are conscious. There is no chaos, there are no victims. There is no question. And what could that gun ever do to that eternal core of your essence. That gun will only shoot your fear. It will only hit your agony. Even those eyes, then, can be unconditionally loved. You know what happens when you unconditionally love the eyes behind the gun? They break! They receive the only gift they’ve never received yet. They receive a bomb, in return for that gun. A bomb of love! A bomb of realization. That you trusted them. Unconditional love is trusting your partner — every move! Not because this partner is an enlightened being, but because you are and every moment in your day is a conscious moment. No chaos, no victim, no distrust, no conditions. The entire fabric of being-ness around you, a part of it, a cell in a totally whole body — you are.

We are not saying there will be no pain, and we are not saying there will be no challenge, we are speaking of trust. And in this phase of your evolving now, anything that is part of your veil will be mirrored to you. And so your partner will create actions that you don’t like. In unconditional love, you will see that as your veil being held in front of you. And what would you do with it? You recognize it and you love that that being placed it in front of you. That it made it clear to you, so that you could break a little further, move into trust a little further. This is the conscious relationship. This is the purpose of relationship — to bring you to this place of responsibility and to your own tremendous beauty. To no longer point fingers; to nolonger distrust. To distrust that one that you love, that you live with; you could trust nothing. Could you trust the night sky then, could you trust the one with the gun? Learn trust with the one you’re with. The one who you choose. Trust. Learn to trust within your own being, within every moment. Unconditional love is a state of kinship. Kinship within yourself first. And kinship with life — kinship with all. In this blessed state of kinship, which the human being is evolving towards, there is the softness and the silence. There is no above and no below, and there is no threat and there is no power. There is just besideness, withness, parallels. There is just the flowing lines — all beings knowing all beings as themselves. Every pair of eyes carries your own.

Can you look at everybody in this room and see you in every one of those eyes. Or do you see them as separate beings that you may or may not trust. Try to understand kinship in this light. Kinship is knowing that all beings are part of you. Including the one with the gun. And the one with the gun or the one who tortures — which is part of your reality in this world — is a soul in full scream, who is so intensely starving for love. And if there were a child in front of you, screaming for food, would you close them into a closet and give them nothing? There is a way to heal these beings that scream. But you must take that quantum leap into trust, trusting that the universe is a composition of grace. At this phase of your evolution, you must be willing to cast aside all thoughts that pertain to that smaller self. Will my body be safe? Can I trust here? Will I have enough food? Will I have enough money? All those pertain to this reduced sense of self behind the veil. And you’re required to break that veil, it will break thy self, it will break that safety net. How poor can you get? How hungry can you get? Have you ever tried?

What is eternal in your being, can you find it, do you know where it is? And can you commit yourself to that eternal part in your being — in your heart — and be willing to risk the rest? Maybe you can for another being, in order to demonstrate absolute trust. If you reflect stories into your world, you will find the individuals who have done these things and that have changed entire patterns of thought, of spirituality, of political reality. You will find those ones who have acted from that vibrant core. We have a vision — we call it the temple of unity. The temple of unity is a state of consciousness within your being. A temple that you enter inside, where you live as a holy presence within the temple. Your great crying, and your great abyss is left behind because the abyss is the self trapped behind its veil, saying “there is just me, I am small, I’m alone, I’m scared, I’m abandoned, I’m alone”. That’s the abyss. And there is one more thing we would say, as you leave that abyss, as you allow that self to break, remember one thing — the universe, all creation is a being-ness of grace. And you’ll be met, every toe, every elbow, every part of your first steps, every step of the way. You’ll be met, by song, by grace, by celebration. You’ll be ushered to that temple of unity.