“True Love” is a very beautiful concept, though not as many can comprehend it. The phrase “True Love” is made up of two words and that in itself is a very peculiar thing. First, if “Love” needs to be prefaced with “True”, is it truly love in it’s fullest expression?

“Love” is a word and words are used to understand something deeper, which is what “Love” truly is. “True Love” is something very deep, but the very words get in the way of what is so sacred and beautiful.

“I love you” is another one of those phrases that is a very odd thing. You feel the warmth of embrace of ever-pervading love inside of yourself with another, and you then take a moment to tell the other about that warmth inside of you, using disconnected concepts like a word that represents who you are (“I”), and a word that represents who they are (“you”).

There is separation there from what “True Love”, or more simply, “Love” truly is, and it truly is a beautiful gift.

There is nothing really wrong with those three words, it’s just that they get in the way of a more sacred communion with Love in all it’s totality.

There is something about “True” too that is fascinating. Computer code is “True”. It’s just keywords, methods, and variables arranged that have no feeling and do exactly what the arrangement of those symbols do when arranged in that pattern.

And this is the misery of real True Love. It is said that God is Love. But God is just a word that describes another concept. What truly is God is undefinable, and when you come close to this undefinable reality which is present at all moments and at all times, you can get lost in the computer code and forget Love.

Below is a famous passage from the Bible about this very problem:

Corinthians 13 – NIV:

If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Something about finding the Kingdom of Heaven within brings this problem to the forefront.

There is a territory that becomes apparent to the enlightened soul where “True” finds itself right next “Love”. Maybe that’s where the term came from anyway.

This soul is able to see the mysteries of life itself and understand all things (and yet understands nothing), very similar to being able to write a computer program. But what is all of this without Love? And what is Love if it’s only an idea or a word and not expressed and given in all your actions?

The point is this. Don’t get lost in the computer code, because it can be very addicting and you forget the whole point you were writing the computer program in the first place: for Love.

Do you know who Love is? She has a name, and her name is Love, just as your own name is Love. Let go of all your other names and ideas, and concepts, and be Love. Feel love fully and don’t let anxiety or pride or any other reason take you away from it, bask in the radiance of its warmth daily, and practice soft and benign, yet all-pervading, love in all your actions in every moment.

This universe is beyond comprehensible in it’s vastness in all directions. You can go in any direction, on any path, on any trail and travel forever in that direction, or change directions a million times, get lost, get found, and get lost again.

It’s is mind boggling huge. Find a way to remember your anchor for every single moment of your very life. Silently repeat to yourself at all moments in every action, before and after every thought you have and say it softly: “Love”. Don’t ever lose this word, and more importantly, don’t ever lose Love, because there may be no going back.