The clearer you see someone without distortion - your own ideas and preconceived notions about them - the more you will love them as they love themselves, because loving them as they love themselves is equal to loving yourself.

There is something deep within each of us which knows itself to be fundamentally worth loving. Despite our obvious and many flaws, it cannot be erased.

If one can meet another at that level - at the soul level - love is the only thing left. There is no room left there for hate and division.

If we are all "One", then it is all the same essence moving through separate individuals. If I manage to see someone without distortion, and they manage to put away their conditioning and meet me as that pure essence, loving them is as easy as loving myself.

If I consider myself worth loving and fundamentally good - despite my obviously unlovable traits, then I must also see that in another when I meet them at that level as I meet myself most deeply. We tend to forgive our own flaws because we have access to our own internal context. We know our "intent" was good, or we know we are struggling. When we look at others, we often only see the behaviour (the flaw). By granting them the same internal depth we grant ourselves ("soul-seeing"), we extend the same grace to others as we extend to ourselves.

Seeing then is crucial for the ability to love. I should perhaps clarify that it is not actually about visual seeing, but rather "soul-seeing", or simply "understanding".

If all is consciousness, then it all comes down to awareness. Everything comes from seeing. Loving, resenting. It all depends on how we see the "other".

Love then is awareness, or consciousness. Awareness is the condition under which love becomes unavoidable. The more conscious we are or become, the more we love the "other" because the more it is seen that it is not other at all. Love does not cause clarity. Rather, clarity dissolves the structures that obstruct love. Infatuation may be blind, but love is 20/20 vision.

Therefore, the pursuit of love is actually the pursuit of truth. If you see the truth of a situation or a person completely, you cannot help but love them, because you understand the causality that led them to this moment.

In Sanskrit this is called "Namaste". "The divine in me, sees the divine in you".

Baruch de Spinoza also expressed it like this:

"To understand something fully is to approve of its existence."

To approve of its existence like that, is love.

One must assume that God knows me, as I know myself - seeing as he moves me. That may be why God is love. In Spinoza's words, he understands me fully and therefore approves of my existence. If that is so, there is no judgement at the end of our lives at all. What is left to say, that is not already known and loved? God does not “approve” in a moral sense. Rather, he understands completely.

If Love is Awareness, and God is infinite Awareness (Omniscience), then God must also be infinite Love.