Unity exists only in Love. If in our seeking of unity, Love is not the key, the means, and the space, it is doomed to fail.
These words are not merely the fruit of my reflection, but they have their source in my personal experience of Unity in Love, which causes all divisions to lose their power. In writing these words, I entrust this process to the One from whom I draw life, so that It may work through me.
We are one at the deepest level. All existence springs from the One who is. Every consciousness is participation in the very awareness of the Creator. It is He, Love, who grants us the possibility of being and of loving.
The suffering we experience here stems primarily from our inability to recognize our participation in the life of God, and from our lack of surrender, so that the One who animates us may express His beauty through us and in us.
The mystics have spoken of this truth for centuries. So few of them understand it and take their words to heart.
The Church, at its deepest level, is one. The Church “without denomination” of those who worship the Father in Spirit and in Truth. Our divisions will not yield without love in our striving for Truth. Often I am ready to kill with a word to stand firm.
Love is above every distinction. She is the unity of creation that enchants us with its diversity and vastness.
Our entire existence comes down to this: to let Love release the most beautiful version of ourselves. There is no more beautiful me than the one who offers Love the least resistance.
Sin is not, in its nature, a transgression of certain moral principles. Sin is the denial of our beauty. It destroys it above all in the sinner, and invites the wronged to an equally destructive response in pursuit of justice.
Our ego, even that which independently tries to be “good,” must trust in Her guidance. We are not the source of beauty within us. She is.