Unreasonable Love

"Even if someone says, 'I love you because...' there is reduction of the sacred to the profane, there is an implicit act of debasement and manipulation. The order of because is always the order of functionalism.

-- Justus George Lawler

Have you ever met a person whom you immediately loved? Instantaneously your heart was opened, even if it was crusted, or clouded, over just a moment ago. Love poured through you towards them, and you had no idea why!

When that happens, it's downright embarrassing! And so, you begin to make up reasons why you're feeling the way you do. They remind you of someone from your past, they're beautiful, you're overly emotional, the moon is aligned with Venus -- whatever! All the reasons are ridiculous and redundant. Love just Is. It catches us unaware, and that is indeed part of its' beauty.

Love needs no because. In fact, as Mr. Lawler points out above, because debases love. Love exists. Love is the heart and soul of who you are. Love is the ultimate joy.

The mistake we make is in thinking that love is personal. The person who instantaneously opens the doors to your heart is not your soulmate, your long lost love form the continent Atlantis, or even your guru. They are simply a catalyst. A person whose chemistry is such as to release the love that already lies dormant inside of you. Honor them, cherish them, love them, but don't take it all so personally!

I remember hearing Ram Dass say once that ultimately you should be able to walk down the street, make eye contact with someone, fall deeply and completely in love, and walk on without missing a step and without looking back. True love is impersonal. It is without rhyme and without reason and without it we might as well curl up in a ball and die.

So, just for today, love uncontrollably, unreasonably, in a wild, because-free way. Let the love pour through you -- through your heart, through your eyes, through your actions. Passionately and impersonally to the One in All.