“God is love, and whoever lives in love lives in God and God lives in him.” (1 Jn 4:16-17). When we meditate, as we transcend and move beyond the limitations of our own desires and fears, of our ego, of our individuality, we break out of this culture-bound understanding of love only as an erotic, egotistical force that leads to tragedy, to loneliness, to disappointment, to despair even, when it fails, when it dies. We break out of that into a vision of love that is of God, a vision of love that we find in the New Testament, a vision of love that enables us, incredibly, to equate God and love: “God is love.” (1 Jn 4:8) And I think this can only happen through our experience.
( Aspects of Love 1 by Laurence Freeman OSB )
