"Being-in-love." Of all the objects, concepts, ideas, or whatever language you choose to describe the thing you are in love with, it's most likely that your word of choice would refer to another person, another human being or two-legged animal. This is the most common usage of the term "being in love." But within this mutuality is conflict. "What conflict?" you may say. "Isn't being in love the most mutually harmonious state of existence we can be in"? Well yes, one would suppose, if we are talking about the human scene, the limited world of many two-legged animals. Clearly there is conflict here, (a) we are mixing being and being (the verb and the noun), (b) we are assuming two individuals (each with two legs), (c) we are sinking into the quicksand of dualism.
However enticing the term "being-in-love" sounds or feels, it just isn't true except in the premise of human paradox; metaphysically speaking, it is a non-term. Now "Be-ing in Love," or Love-Being, "Be-ing in Mind" (Mind-Being), "Be-ing in Soul" (Soul-Being), "Be-ing in Spirit" (Spirit-Being), would convey a more correct conception of our (Your/My) oneness with the One Infinite Being which is All, engendering the absolute heavenly harmony which is forever ours (yours and mine) in the infinite cosmos of everywhere, now. Yes, NOW, because in Being there is no limited human concept of time, no on-again, off-again misrepresentation of true spiritual relationship. How powerful also, and how comforting, to realize that Love-Being levels the paradox of morality/immorality, poverty/wealth, sickness/health, weakness/strength, gender/no-gender, and that when we are in Love-Being, or Being-in-Love (which we always are), we stand irrefutably and immovably on neutral ground between right and wrong, love and hate, war and peace.
When I was a youngster in post-war UK, my parents used to shift into neutral gear to save gas, turning the engine off and letting the car freewheel down hills. When we are in neutral relationship (Being) with each other, we too can save energy which can be utilized effectively in a different way. Achieving a neutral and peaceful relationship is possible when we position ourselves "in the secret place," in the Oneness of Being, in Love-Being, Truth-Being, Principle-Being, Life-Being
"We" are always one, and that is the only position we can take, now and always. It is true now, that "white-robed purity will unite in one person masculine wisdom and feminine love, spiritual understanding and perpetual peace" [Eddy, S&H, p. 64]. "In being Man as impersonal thinking - you are being Love ?" [Laird, All Is One, p. 20].
Recently we attended a wedding reception for about 700 people. All except for a half dozen or so were of Eastern Indian culture. The food was hotter than hot, the music louder than loud, the dancing vibrant. Standing above all the din and density of moving bodies, there was unconditional concern for our welfare, a welcoming love irrespective of colour, race, or religion. We were seated at one of the top tables. When my husband ate several hot chili pepper beans and subsequently lost consciousness, the loving care by those around him for his Well-Being was immediately evident. No judging, no criticism, no suggestions of beans (et al.) being-in-the-wrong-place were even hinted at. There were only genuine and unconditionally loving offers of assistance, and the freedom for us to do whatever we felt was necessary to take care of the situation, which in this case was to sit quietly and then leave graciously. Next day we received a friendly phone call to ascertain that all was well, which it was/IS, and acknowledging the fiery punch of the peppers. "Sick or well, good or bad, Man is what he is -- the conscious identity of Good." All experience is conscious identity -- Mind disclosing the infinity of Good! All happenings ...are consciousness consciously being? Good is what is being and what you are experiencing the live-long day" [Laird, All Is One, p. 12]
Isn't there only One Life, One Principle, One Truth, One Love? This experience taught me a great deal about breaking down the barriers of racial hatred and prejudicial judgmentalism, and that there really are no such barriers because All is One and we are all One in Being. Neutralizing any relationship-tangles with the realization of My/Our Oneness is one of the greatest lessons of My Life. My unbroken and beautiful relationship with the "My" of My-Being is all there is and can be, now and always!
