It is the nature of love to look upon only the truth, for there it sees itself, with which it would unite in holy union and completion. As love must look past fear, so must fear see love not. For love contains the end of guilt, as surely as fear depends on it. Love is attracted only to love. (A Course in Miracles T-19.IV.A.10:2-5)
When we fall in love romantically with a special partner, we want to be with that partner all the time. We see only the perfection in the other. And we are filled with joy.
In this circumstance, this perception is focused on a special individual. But if we take away that limited focus and let it be all inclusive of all our brothers, imagine the joy and peace we would experience. We would be seeing the Love of Christ in everyone. This Love would be reflected back to us and we would feast on it with joy, for it would fulfill our need to remember the Love we are.
The need to be joined with our brother is the need to remember we are one in the Self that Love created. The seeming ecstasy of the romantic love partner is but a small taste of the pure joy that comes with joining with all our brothers in the one Self we share. Love sees only Love. There is nothing else to see.
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