Can we ever really love unconditionally?

- Photo by Lisa Munkeby, Minnetrista, MN

When I taught a couple weeks ago a student came up to me and asked me this question “As humans, can we ever really love unconditionally?”

Inside of me there was a moment of choice, go up to my head for the answer or relinquish control to my intuition. I did the latter knowing that when I heard the answer there would be learning in the answer for me.

“Yes, when you are in the space you are near to right now, of loving yourself unconditionally, it is possible to love others in this way.”

Even now as I write them and read them, I know these words were not from me (from my head). They were too clear, too concise - too soothing.

I find this so fascinating… the question, the answer, the learning and shift inside of me as I spoke. Interestingly he didn’t ask more. He just nodded and moved on. Question asked, answer received.

What is this? A question out of the blue from a student I’d never spoken to before and wouldn’t speak to much during the remainder of the week. An answer pulled up from within me to remind me of something very important. It reminded me that I have the answers inside of me.

It’s like we are doing a dance that someone else is directing. That we are players on the stage. Each of us with questions and each of us needing the answers we have within us.

They say we need the advice we give to others. So I try to listen when I speak.

We also need someone to ask us the question.

This feels like the hand of the Divine. It reaches down and creates a question in the air… and a passerby picks it up … and delivers it.

How much magic is there in the world? I sometimes wonder if the world is really all magic and we are just playing “make-believe” that it isn’t.