"Unconditional love" is a phrase I've read in nearly every spiritual book . It's an appealing enough set of words that flows very nicely and makes a fine new age mantra. If you're into that sort of thing.
Me? I find New and Age to be at odds with itself. But I've got to start this inquiry somewhere, so why not approach it from a more practical perspective. Like a dictionary.
It seems, after pondering the above for quite a while, that "unconditional love" is a completely redundant phrase. Because "without conditions" would mean that anything and everything is accepted, as it is. Not a single condition can apply. Not even the Acceptance because that, itself, implies a condition of welcoming.
In thinking this through, I've never experienced anything without conditions. Or, maybe it's more accurate to say that the "I" has never experienced without conditions because the job of the Me seems to be to judge and classify everything in its path. Relentlessly. So, what is the only thing that doesn't judge? Well... that would seem to be what I'd call LOVE.
By my own definition, Love itself, then, is unconditional. The two words first define each other and then ultimately cancel themselves out. When looking at this closely, the canceling out leaves me still and silent. The only thing remaining is THAT which IS. And absolutely nothing more can possibly be said because to do so would be to spin back into conditions.
It's suddenly grown really very quiet around here.
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