Evolution of love

Emptiness Dancing

Many of the stories of Jesus describe this kind of love. People around him were constantly telling him what wasn't lovable: "This prostitute, we'll stone her to death. God doesn't love people like that."
But Jesus, totally connected, knew this love is indiscriminate. It doesn't come because someone is nice or noble. It just is. It loves everyone indiscriminately. Most of his ministry was founded upon this kind of love. It was even expressed for those who were responsible for his death. He said, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do."
That comes from the love that just will not stop, even in the face of death. That is the voice of love. The mind may say, "Hey, they are going to kill me. I have a right to withhold love." But the truth doesn't operate by that law; it doesn't play by the rules of the game that the mind would make up. It loves anyway.
Make no mistake: this love doesn't have anything to do with you becoming noble, holy, and worthy. This is a love that's pre-existing. It has always been here and always will be here. It's a love that simply is.

Imagine what would happen if you suddenly found yourself without thought and without the possibility of thought. How would the world appear to you then? Would you see any world of separate objects? Could you recognize this room, this page, these words? Could you experience emotions?
You would not recognize any separate objects, and you would not see anything apart from yourself. Your own awareness would constitute the whole of reality.
The so-called objective world; that is, the world that is apparently full of separate objects, is really an illusion. It exists only as names and forms. The mind is not the cause of that world- projection; it is only the mechanism through which the divine power (pure knowledge or universal consciousness) is working. That consciousness is all-pervasive and so it is the underlying reality of the apparent objects, including the apparent person who perceives them.