Love as Collapse of Relationship

A woman says she notices Rupert sometimes says ‘peace, joy, love’ and sometimes ‘in love’, and describes feeling inundated with love when considering ‘what if God was so in love with me?’ Rupert affirms this feeling, quoting William Blake: ‘Eternity is in love with the productions of time’. He explains that God is so intimately one with us that there isn’t a hair’s breadth between us – God is our very being. When the woman expresses confusion about how being can be ‘in love with’ being, Rupert clarifies that love is not a relationship between subject and object but rather the collapse of relationship. Love is the absence of otherness, not something a separate self feels or has. Love can be expressed in relationship, but love itself is the collapse of the felt sense of ‘me and you’. The separate self dies in the experience of love, which is why we all love love.

From event 09 - 16 March, 2025 Seven-Day Retreat at Mercy Center, 9–16 March 2025

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