When I read Marianne Williamson’s A Return to Love for the 2nd time, I began to realize that most of the time she was talking about love in a spiritual way. In a follow-up careful study, I saw that she was meaning agapé.
So I decided to go thru her book one more time and change ‘love’ to ‘agapé’ whenever the context gave that meaning. Doing that gave enough of a profound lesson in agapé understanding that I will now list those re-written sentences.
Agapé is what we were born with. Fear is what we have learned here. Agapé is the essential existential fact. It is the ultimate reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience agapé in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. We came here to co-create with God by extending agapé. We’re on earth to share agapé. The only love that completes us is God’s agapé, and God’s agapé is to be shared with everyone.
Agapé is within us. It cannot be destroyed, but can only be hidden. Agapé merely becomes clouded over, or surrounded by mental mists.
God is the agapé within us. When we choose to share agapé, or to allow our minds to be one with God, then life is peaceful. When we turn away from agapé, the pain sets in. Once we get to the point where we realize that God is agapé, we understand that following God simply means following the dictates of agapé. By affirming that agapé is our priority in a situation, we actualize the power of God.
Agapé is energy. The return to agapé is the great cosmic drama, the personal journey from pretense to self, from pain to inner peace. The perfect you is the agapé within you. Your job in life is to allow the Holy Spirit to remove the fearful thinking that surrounds your perfect self, just as excess marble surrounding Michelangelo's perfect statue is removed.
The agapé in one of us is the agapé in all of us. There’s actually no place where God stops and you start, and no place where you stop and I start. Agapé is an infinite continuum. We are all one, we are agapé itself. Anything other than agapé is an illusion. The only thing lacking in any situation is agapé. The experience of agapé is a choice we make, a mental decision to see agapé as the only real purpose and value in any situation.
Until we make that choice, we keep striving for results that we think would make us happy. When we relax and sense agapé active within the core of our being and keep to that as our focus in every situation — that’s the meaning of working with agapé in charge of life.
God, as agapé, is constantly expanding, flourishing and creating new patterns for the expression and attainment of joy. When our minds, thru focus on agapé, are allowed to be open vessels thru which God expresses, our lives become the canvasses for the expression of that joy.
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