Love and the mystery of creation

If we do not give our complete attention (i.e. if we do not attend to life completely)- because all our ideas, preconceptions, and words form walls between us and the 'suchness' of 'what is'- that is when we are separated inexorably from the intimate whole; that is when we are not 'in' love.

We need only be absolutely conscious at every moment, wholly divorced from judgement, memory, expectation, right and wrong, and need and ...we shall become the moment; we shall find communion in everything we do; in communion we will attain to union, thus unseparating the divided parts of life, and returning ourselves and others to the health of wholeness.

To forget the old truths, to pay attention to the new life, to live by the heart which does not 'know' but instead 'feels', this is all that is needed to bring about unknowable unseparation of love. For Love, after all, is naught but the Mysterious Creator fully intimate with the Mysterious Creation.

"When there is love". Krishnamurti tells us again, "there is neither good nor bad, there is only love." (talks in Bombay, Feb27/55)^{^[19]}

In other words- the absence of the distance of 'truths' and words, is the intimate wonder called love; here there is no right and wrong, there only 'is'; and the 'is' has feeling, and it is feeling, not knowing, which leads us towards beauty.

"Don't ask for a lineage of revelation, or explication of texts, or rules of morality", says Rumi's son Bahauddin, for "There's nothing here but love and mystery."

This reality- i.e. the complementary existence of love and mystery- has been semantically apparent for a very long time, but we have refused to acknowledge it. Let me explain. It is the case that the word 'agape' means all of the following: to love with great spiritual intensity, to be wide open, to inexorably wonder, and to eat a religious meal. I say that these are not separate definitions for the same word, but are integral nuances of a single definition for ‘agape’: it is food for the soul: it is the blessed marriage of mind and not‑mind; it is the love of each other; it is absolute intoxicated awe; it is the cerebral consummation of the only possible onto‑epistemological relationship that could exist; which is to say, it is the infinite unknowable aspect of our being which we can only become by unknowing our unknowable beings. Wonder is the immanent love of the mysterious Great Soul, awakening to itself in the manifest.

[19] Corroborating this subtle point, Eckhart Tolle states: “Love, joy, and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself from mind dominance. But they are not what I would call emotions. They lie beyond emotions, on a much deeper level. So you need to become fully conscious of your emotions and be able to feel them before you can feel that which lies beyond them. ...Love, joy, and peace are deep states of Being or rather three aspects of the state of inner correctness with Being. As such, they have no opposite. This is because they arise from beyond the mind.” (The Power of Now, p25)