The Relationship Between Love and Being

"You say that love is the nature of being, but I often don’t feel loving. How can love be my essential nature when I experience its opposite? Rupert says: ‘Love isn’t a feeling that comes and goes; it’s the very nature of being. What we call the feeling of love is actually the dissolution of the apparent separation between subject and object – between yourself and another person, or yourself and an experience. When that separation collapses, being recognises itself, and this recognition is what we experience as love. When you say you don’t feel loving, you’re experiencing the apparent separation that the finite mind superimposes on reality. But this doesn’t negate love as your essential nature. Just as the sun continues shining behind the clouds, love – which is being’s recognition of its own unity – remains present even when obscured by thoughts and feelings of separation. Love isn’t something you need to generate; it’s what you are.’"

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

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