Love is unconditional

Consider the alternative. "Conditional" love. What is that? Oh, I love you because you are good....pretty.... rich etc. That is not love, it is illusion or attachment or avarice. So, we can say that real love is unconditional. Not that it does not engender a condition within us but that it is not dependent on a condition of us.

Even maternal love is instinctive in nature and passionate love is destructive in nature. They exist to show us the extremes to which human nature can extend and occupy. So what then is the reality of love? Despite the many expressions of this state, its definition is often more descriptive than explanatory.

Our presence, in the here and now, is a necessary pre-requisite of our evolutionary existence. The presence of the other represents our way of delving into the unknown and hidden parts of our make-up. To bridge that gap and to enable a more intimate and informative contact, we need a state of being that is able to overcome the various internal resistances.

Real love, unconditional love, is the ability to receive without expectation and to give without intention. The state of sharing what we have without reserve and without condition.

That is its unconditional nature.