You Are IT

Eternal bliss without having anyone to share it with is hell. Private pleasure without love is meaningless, so the World was created out of that primordial loneliness. The One made us because it was “not good to be alone.” (Or rather, it is not good to drink alone!) The One is always singular, always apart, always solitary. The eternal stirring to plurality in Oneness is the striving to sacrificial love because mere pleasure offers no meaning. Here One is already Two, and Two relate together as Three. Love requires Oneness split into a plurality that must be overcome as a new kind of unity. The suffering God made friends to tell each other what God also needs to hear: you are not alone. When we alleviate the suffering of other human beings, it is the suffering of God (and ultimately our own suffering) we heal. Private pleasure pursued for its own sake brings neither happiness to oneself nor meaning to others. As such, the two greatest commandments — to love your neighbor as yourself and to love God with all your heart — are one and the same. To see our truer self in the panoply of responses we evoke in others: THAT — not how you feel — ART THOU. Everything is perishing except for His face.

~ Silo McGundy