What is Love?

There are as many loves as there are people. Love is a hierarchy, from the lowest rung to the highest, there are many, many layers, many planes of love. It all depends on you. If you are existing on the lowest rung, you will have a totally different idea of love than the person who is existing on the highest rung.

At the lowest, love is a kind of power politics. Wherever love is contaminated by the idea of domination, it is politics. And millions of people never know anything about love except this politics - the politics that exists between husbands and wives, boyfriends and girlfriends. The whole thing is political: you want to dominate the other, you enjoy domination. And love is nothing but politics sugar-coated, a bitter pill sugar-coated.

You talk about love but the deep desire is to exploit the other. People are falling in love with horses, dogs, animals, machines, things. Why? Because to be in love with human beings has become a continuous conflict - nagging, always at each other's throats. This is the lowest form of love.

If you can watch it, if you try to understand it, in that very understanding you will reach another rung, you will start moving upwards. Only at the highest peak, when love is not a relationship any more, when love becomes a state of your being, the lotus opens totally and great perfume is released - but only at the highest peak. At its lowest, love is just a political relationship. At its highest, love is a religious state of consciousness. I love you too, Buddha loves, Jesus loves, but their love demands nothing in return. Their love is given for the sheer joy of giving it - it is not a bargain. Hence the radiant beauty of it, hence the transcendental beauty of it. It surpasses all the joys that you have known.

Love is a state of being. It is unaddressed: you don't love this person or that person, you simply love. You are love. Rather than saying that you love somebody, it will be better to say you are love. So whosoever is capable of partaking, can partake.

Whosoever is capable of drinking out of your infinite sources of being, you are available - you are available unconditionally. That is possible only if love becomes more and more meditative. `Medicine' and `meditation' come from the same root. Love as you know it is a kind of disease: it needs the medicine of meditation. If it passes through meditation, it is purified. And the more purified it is, the more ecstatic.

Everybody has their own idea of love. And only when you come to the state where all ideas about love have disappeared, where love is no more an idea but simply your being, then only will you know its freedom. Then love is God. Then love is the ultimate truth. Let your love move through the process of meditation. Watch it: watch the cunning ways of your mind, watch your power-politics. And nothing else except continuous watching and observing is going to help.

When you say something to your woman or your man, look at it: what is the unconscious motive? Why are you saying it? Is there some motive? Then what is it? Be conscious of that motive, because this is one of the secret keys for transforming your life: anything that becomes conscious disappears. It is as if you pull up a tree and bring the roots to the sunlight: they will die, they can exist only in the darkness of the soil. So the only way to transform your love is to bring all the motivations from the unconscious into the conscious. Slowly, slowly those motives will die. And when love is unmotivated, then love is the greatest thing that can ever happen to anybody. Then love is something of the ultimate, of the beyond. That is the meaning when Jesus says, "God is love." Love is God. Love is the bridge. Apart from romantic love there is a more existential love if you like – a global love which has no boundaries, no religion, race or age. This kind of love will nourish yourself and others, whoever they may be.

Do you want to do something different for Valentine’s this year, then this event is for you.

Global Love Letters - Let’s send some LOVE into the World

We are meeting on Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 February at noon until 5pm. Meeting place on Saturday: Gugar Bar at 89A, in Republic Street, down the hill from the waterfalls on the right with red doors - moving onwards wherever the journey takes us.

Simon Paul Sutton, ambassador of Global Love Letters Malta explains why an anonymous love letter

Global Love Letters is a simply profound act of connecting to unconditional love by writing an anonymous love letter named (For You) and signed (I love you).

It is the simple acts which have the most impact. When you move into a simple, more gratified and consciously aware space of reality, your whole life changes.

Love isn’t just for a certain time of year...it’s eternal, it’s infinite. Can you open to the vastness of what and who you are?

Join us to continue the Global Love Letters 2nd Birthday - we plan to meet up write anonymous love letters, spread love, offer random hugs and hit the streets together dropping the love letters along the way. Bring paper, pens and envelopes and come and have fun, bring children, bring grandparents, bring everyone!

Join us in Valletta next weekend and let’s have fun in a loving community.

If you don’t know about this global movement the fastest way to familiarise yourself is to visit the website: http://globalloveletters.com/

The global event is here if you want to invite friends:

https://www.facebook.com/events/211151269081658/