Love is…like a spring coming up out of the ground of our own depths. “I am gift.” All that I am is something that’s given, and given freely. Being doesn’t cost anything. There’s no price tag, no strings attached. Thomas Merton
I’m not going to call the True Self “life” or “being.” More basically, I’m going to call it “Love.” Love is what we were made for, and love is who we are. There is increasing evidence that love is the very physical structure of the universe, as revealed in all things existing in orbital, contextual and magnetic ways. The Song of Songs (8:6) says that love is stronger than death, and the flash of love is like a flash of fire, a flame of Yahweh. Richard Rohr