On Love
“Love is a state of being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.
In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. you look beyond the veil of form and seperation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.
Love is not selective, just as the light of the sun is not selective. It does not make one person special. It is not exclusive. Exclusivity is not the love of God but the “love” of ego. It is only the degree of intensity that differs [between people].
For love to flourish, the light of your presence needs to be strong enough so that you no longer get taken over by the thinker or the pain-body and mistake them for who you are. To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.”
-from The Power of Now, Eckarte Tolle, p.154-155 (re-ordered by Fi)