The Felt Recognition of Our Shared Being

"Experientially, love feels different with different people – with my child, my partner, a stranger. Even with the same person it fluctuates. How is this different from the love you speak about, from God’s love? Rupert says: ‘You’re associating love with a feeling, an emotion that fluctuates. When I speak of love, I mean the felt recognition that you share your being with someone – not an emotion, but an acknowledgement that what the other person is at the deepest level is what you are. Shakespeare understood: “Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.” If your relationship comes unstuck and you separate, the love does not change. You may need boundaries, you may not smile sweetly anymore, but in your heart the love doesn’t waver. Likes and dislikes belong to the mind – it’s natural to prefer some people. But love is deeper: the recognition that beneath the mind, we are one being.’"

From event 21 - 28 November, 2025 Seven-Day Retreat at The Vedanta, 21–28 November 2025

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