Article January 31, 1983 Issue

Love the underived

JOHN HARGREAVES

Human experience appears to derive from many sources. Jobs are supplied by employers and subject to various personal qualifications. Home and happiness seem to revolve around the availability of housing and personal companionship, and health to be dependent on a range of conditions. Material circumstances of every kind claim to be decisive in determining the quality of our lives.

This picture emerges from the premise that we live as fragments of life called mortals, in a world where other mortals are competing for an apparently limited amount of good and where our lot, at best, is a precarious tenure of good; at worst, a portion of satisfaction that falls short of expectation. But this is a false premise.

The remedy, of course, is to understand the allness of Love that both constitutes all being and holds within itself its own limitless, undivided knowing of good. This Love, which we call God, needs and could experience nothing outside its own substance, and what Love knows is expressed in the real man.

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