And all of the relationships are symbiotic in that sense. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs.I’m not interested in being a ‘lover.’ I’m interested in only being loved.That's the space I entered when I met my guru. Then you and I are genuinely in love, the state of being in love. If I go into the place in myself that is love, and you go into the place in yourself that is love, we are together in love.Then I looked up, and he was looking directly at me with unconditional love. So I looked at the grass, and I thought, 'My God, he's going to know all the things I don't want people to know.' I was embarrassed. I remember my first visit with my guru.Love is the most transformative medicine for love slowly transforms you into what psychedelics only get you to glimpse.Yes, we have to beat down the separateness. As we grow in our consciousness, there will be more compassion and more love, and then the barriers between people, between religions, between nations will begin to fall.But subsequently, I realized that it was really his love that pulled me in. At that point, I was impressed with the power. Maharaj-Ji, in my first darshan, my first meeting with him, showed me his powers.No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success – none of that matters. You don’t have to do anything to earn it. You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing.The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing. The third one is the one that is the shared awareness that lies behind the two of them. When I used to perform weddings, the image I always had was the image of a triangle, in which there are two partners, and then there is this third force, this third being, that emerges out of the interaction of these two.Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.

Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being.It’s not ‘I love you’ for this or that reason, not ‘I love you if you love me.’ It’s love for no reason, love without an object. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. Unconditional love really exists in each of us.Richard Alpert talked about love and relationship issues.

Ram dass remember be here now