u/FreeSelfHealing

The spirit of unconditional love best defines the nature of the Divine. It's equivalent to how a loving parent regards a newborn infant - a weird looking, smelly, noisy, weak, needy, and worthless being - and feels nothing but pure adoration for it. The Divine entails no judgment and imposes no demands for love to be available. The power of this spirit is the greatest medicine we can pursue for healing.

Too many religions are contaminated by the myth of a judgmental deity that evaluates us in order to determine what fate we deserve - during life or in the afterlife. These myths become a source of toxic fear, guilt, and shame that divide and sicken us. They also cause many to distrust spirituality altogether, throwing the baby out with the bathwater. But if a parent can regard a newborn with the spirit of unconditional love, how could the Divine not do likewise for our imperfect selves?

The spirit of unconditional love best defines the nature of the Divine. It's equivalent to how a loving parent regards a newborn infant - a weird looking, smelly, noisy, weak, needy, and worthless being - and feels nothing but pure adoration for it. The Divine entails no judgment and imposes no demands for love to be available. The power of this spirit is the greatest medicine we can pursue for healing.

Too many religions are contaminated by the myth of a judgmental deity that evaluates us in order to determine what fate we deserve - during life or in the afterlife. These myths become a source of toxic fear, guilt, and shame that divide and sicken us. They also cause many to distrust spirituality altogether, throwing the baby out with the bathwater. But if a parent can regard a newborn with the spirit of unconditional love, how could the Divine not do likewise for our imperfect selves?

The spirit of unconditional love best defines the nature of the Divine. It's equivalent to how a loving parent regards a newborn infant - a weird looking, smelly, noisy, weak, needy, and worthless being - and feels nothing but pure adoration for it. The Divine entails no judgment and imposes no demands for love to be available. The power of this spirit is the greatest medicine we can pursue for healing.

Too many religions are contaminated by the myth of a judgmental deity that evaluates us in order to determine what fate we deserve - during life or in the afterlife. These myths become a source of toxic fear, guilt, and shame that divide and sicken us. They also cause many to distrust spirituality altogether, throwing the baby out with the bathwater. But if a parent can regard a newborn with the spirit of unconditional love, how could the Divine not do likewise for our imperfect selves?