Love Is the Recognition of Our Shared Being

Simply being is our primary experience. Before we have the experience ‘I am thinking’ or ‘I am feeling’, we know that ‘I am’. All experience is added to our being but is not essential to it. ‘I am and I know that I am’ is the first knowledge, upon which all other knowledge depends. Nothing is prior to this knowing. Our being, which is shared by all, is the only being there is. There is no other. To consider our self a separate being is to deny God's existence. Because the self of each of us is the same self, love is the recognition that our being is shared. Every time we so much as smile at one another, we are dissolving the sense of separation. In this meditation, we expand the circle of shared being until it includes everyone and we feel the other as our self.