Unconditional Love for self and others

With full appreciation to Neale Donald Walsch for his wonderful Conversations with God books, I learned so much about 'love' while reading them, and realised I really hadn't understood it very well before. I used to have a 'slogan' for myself in terms of physical awareness of sometimes extended empathic feelings that over-reach my own physicality and make real the oneness of all beings - My rights end where another's begin. After reading the CWG books I made an adjustment - Our rights start deep in our humanity, they end where another's begin.

This adjustment was made to acknowledge that my own boundaries, needs and desires are as precious as anyone else's. I collated gems from the CWG books to acknowledge my new(er) understanding of love, what it is, and isn't.

Unconditional love excerpts from Conversations with God Neale Donald Walsch

"Love is that without condition, without limitation, without need.

Because it is without condition it requires nothing in order to be expressed.

Because it is without limitation it places no limitation on another.

Because it is without need it seeks nothing not freely given, to hold nothing not wishing to be held, to give nothing not joyously welcomed.

And it is free.

Love is that which is free, for freedom is the essence of what God is, and love is God expressed. 

Love is the freedom to express the most joyous part of who you really are. The part that knows that you are One with every thing and every one. 

This is the truth of your being , and is the aspect of Self which you will most urgently and earnestly seek to experience.

And honesty is the highest form of love.

Loving another does not mean that you must stop loving (honouring, cherishing, respecting) yourself.

Granting another full freedom does not mean granting them the right to abuse you.

Nor does it mean sentencing yourself to a prison of your own device in which you live a life you would not choose, in order that another may live a life that they do choose.

Yet granting another full freedom does mean placing no limitation of any kind upon another.

You limit that which you choose to experience, not what another is allowed to experience.

This limitation is voluntary and so not a limitation at all. It is a declaration of Who You Are. 

It is a creation, a definition.

This does not mean you must submit to abuse. It means that love for yourself and for the others is always the solution.

Love asks nothing in return. It withdraws nothing in retaliation. It knows no ending but goes on forever.

Love gives a soul back to itself." 

Understanding love in this way, it's easy to recognise when it is, or isn't, the energy that is powering our 'doing', our feeling, our thinking and our relating.


(c) J.Cooper / the words in purple are ND Walsh's