Love is the perfect spiritual balancing of man’s own centre-periphery. We are instinctively self-centred, but when in love our partner becomes our centre, and we become their’s, permitting both of us to joyfully fade into the greater periphery. Love and God are the few times we happily forgo our own centre (ego), and they alone can lead us to perfect spiritual balance, and in-turn perfect happiness. It is for this reason that it is famously said, “God is love.”

The problem with love is not love itself, but our constant return to self-centredness. Initially we concern ourselves with our partner’s well-being, but that concern eventually gets turned inwards as we prioritise our own desires. Having tasted the fruits of love, we enter spiritual withdrawal, and we each try to fill the void in our own way – some more destructively than others. No longer seeing the other person as Centre, we become two individuals struggling with our own spirit, blindly forgetting that our struggles can be easily resolved together, as One.

When the couple from our story awoke to this fact, there was no material change in their life, yet they found profound happiness. This is to say that happiness and unhappiness are only ever within us; their source is never material, and never external. Happiness is about returning to the Other as Centre. No past. No future. Just now, and You.

Jim’s story illustrates the potential healing power of love. If they both give in and love selflessly; if they support each other through life’s hardships; if they make the other their all-important Centre, then they will get better. The balance will not always be perfect, and they will often give more than seems fair, but their selflessness will make them as strong as it will happy. We must love each other with the love that we desire for ourselves.

All true happiness is about spiritual balance, and selfless love is its ultimate realisation.


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