Love Without Conditions

Love.

In its purest form, it is unconditional and yet we were taught as children that it is given upon certain conditions. If we behave "this way", we are rewarded with love and if we do not, the punishment is the absence of that love. Now, our parents meant well by this, teaching us right from wrong, and discipline is necessary to ensuring a strong sense of morality. However, well intentioned or not, it developed into a mindset of trying our entire lives to "earn" love through give and take.

This mindset doesn't allow for us to fully embrace all of what Love has to offer us, because the fear of losing love before we have even attained it, is present.

Letting go of that mindset and fear enables us to be enveloped in the full vulnerability of Love without condition. As it is intended to be. The same way you'd love a field of flowers for instance. You wouldn't go up to each flower and critique it to determine whether or not it was worthy of your love. Nor would you need the love you've given to be reciprocated by the flower in order to give it. You'd simply give, without condition, your love to it for being just as it is. A beautiful part of the collective existence.

So, if we can love flowers in that way, then I'm sure we can love one another in that manner as well.

Sometimes your eyes just leak a bit of the ocean to remind you how connected to everything you truly are. 

Rehumanize

Dehumanization.
We are very quickly becoming a society that does this all too easily and dehumanizing people is what inevitably makes it easy to harm them. We need to really stop that behavior of perpetuating hatred for someone so much so that we wouldnt mind seeing them hurt.

We need to start REhumanizing people. If we dont. We are quite easily headed to a judge, jury, and executioner society where just by collectively hating someone, we rationalize removing them from existence.

But understand this, when we hate, that hate is like a boomerang, it may feel righteous and we may rationalize it as natural because the person we hate "deserves" it. But it will come back to us, and take part of our soul. Part of our humanity. When we harm or justify killing another because they "deserve" it, a part of our soul does as well.

There is no win win with hate. Everyone loses. Humanity means "human beings collectively". We are one collective race and so if one is hurt, we all hurt. There is nothing you contribute to society that doesnt effect the entire human race. This is what Bob Marley meant when he said "When the rain falls, it dont fall on one man's housetop". We are extensions of one another. Our actions, who we decide to be, affects everyone in the entire world.

So why not lead with Love and empathy? It is hypocritical to hate someone for being hateful. Because all we've done then, is create more hate and more of what we dont like. We need to be the change, Collectively.

REHUMANIZE. Otherwise you'll find your own humanity slipping away from you and you'll become that which you once stood against.

 - bri