I was visiting with along-term friend the other day, and she said " Love is what is left when you lose everything you love". It took me a while, but I came to see what she was saying. The formless circumstance IS the Love, when much of the time, what we "love" is actually a form of clinging to what will eventually go away. "Truth" is not just what is good, beautiful and peaceful. Suffering is not error,
but Love lives on.
what a simple pleasure to come to understand in my heart, that "isness" and my personal dharma are essentially the same energetic movement, and the more I experientially live out my "isness", the closer I get to the centering ground of being. Thank you for this post.
There have been many many "helps" along the way of coming gradually to this realization of unity and oneness. Perhaps the most practically helpful has been studying Advaita Vedanta, especially the Upanishads, as they lay out a framework for just this.
On Jun 16, 2025 robert caldwell wrote on Love Itself Was Gone, by Leonard Cohen: