God is Love

I found this article floating around on my Facebook page. It talks about a Harvard neurosurgeon who had a severe case of meningitis that put him in a NDE (near death experience) – where he recounts visiting the afterlife in vivid detail. He made several descriptions of what he saw and experienced, but this is what stood out the most to me.

Love is, without a doubt, the basis of everything. Not some abstract, hard-to-fathom kind of love but the day-to-day kind that everyone knows-the kind of love we feel when we look at our spouse and our children, or even our animals. In its purest and most powerful form, this love is not jealous or selfish, but unconditional. This is the reality of realities, the incomprehensibly glorious truth of truths that lives and breathes at the core of everything that exists or will ever exist, and no remotely accurate understanding of who and what we are can be achieved by anyone who does not know it, and embody it in all of their actions.

Now regardless of the credibility of this “story”, Dr. Eben Alexander makes a profound statement. If you wish to know the Universe, know Love. I don’t know about y’all, but I am floored by this. I’ve always known it but can it really be that simple? I’ve questioned everything about my existence, and life in general.. and rightfully so. I’m a millennial, it’s what we do (lol, just kidding). In all seriousness though, I’ve always felt that love is the root of my being. To be one with God, would be to love unconditionally ALL of God’s creations. Heck, I don’t even think you have to believe in God as a separate entity, because to me God is Love.

So, to know yourself = know the universe = know love = know God. It can be is that simple.

What do y’all think?