Unconditioned love doesn’t mean that everything is just so. It means that you love anyway. It means that the love you feel and the love you give are not dependent upon fluctuations in the outer dimensions of life. Your inner heart is your ballast, not the world. The world bounces you up and down like a basket ball. You can depend on the world for that.

You can’t rely on the world to feed your heart. Let the world rely on you. Let the world be sure of your love. Master the art of love by letting go of dependence upon what enters your world. When your love is dependent upon circumstances, circumstances bounce you hither and yon.

Great love is not what you think. There is an ordinariness to it. Learn to take giving love for granted, and give it. Come from the premise that you will love and only love no matter what. Despite anything, you will love. Not gooey love, not supercilious love, but an inner beat of your heart that won’t stop love emanating because of one thing or another.

Love from your heart is not like money from your wallet that you are careful about spending. There is no saving love for a rainy day. Love surrounding your heart is set to ever-flowing. No ring has to go off.

Love isn’t something you have to dig into like your pocket. Love is an eternal light. Decide, once and for all, that the lamp of love in your heart will be left on. Like a porch light, the love in your heart will light the way for everyone who walks by. You would not flicker your porch light on and off dependent upon who walks by. Know ahead of time, it is always a representative of Me who walks by, and you are a representative of Me who always leaves the light on.

The porch light of love does not have to be a search light that calls attention to itself. It just has to be a light on. Let your heart be the lighthouse that all sailors in life are looking for. Beloveds, the world is dependent upon your heart. And you also are dependent upon the love in your heart. You are dependent upon it, and yet you are the decider of it.

How much love do you want to flow through your heart? Do you want to clamp it periodically to teach someone a lesson? Beloveds, that sends an untenable message. It sends out a fake. The inadequate message a closed heart sends is:

“I am on break. That is, I am learning heartbreak. I will break my heart in an attempt to set someone straight. I have decided that someone or no one is worth my love in this moment, they don’t deserve it. I have decided that they must earn my love the way I say. No matter how hard I personally may make it for someone to love me, I have decided they must love me first. I will tease them a little now and then, I will flash my heart for a moment so it may peek out, and then I will wrap a winter coat around it again, repress it again, deny it its existence again, banish it again, all for the sake of some debt I imagine I am owed.”

Let your heart know the meaning of what it is to forgive a debt, especially when you yourself are the debtor. Let there be no foreclosures on your heart, beloveds. Make your heat beat for all. Let your heart follow its true inclination.