I Am You

"If our love is dependent on looks, when looks fade, our love fades. If our love relies on feelings, when feelings weaken, our love is threatened. If our love is attached to stories, when stories cannot be remembered, our love is forgotten. If love clings to form, then when form dies, as it must, love dies too.

Is there a love that is not dependent on form or feeling? Is there a love with no conditions? Is there a love untouched by disease and death?

Of course there is. It is this loving presence that welcomes every thought, every sensation, every sound as it's very own child, clinging to nothing, resisting nothing, saying, "I am what you are, so we cannot be divided."

And so, dear friend, I do not love you, I am you, beyond hope, beyond fear, beyond all conceptions of love and death..."

~ Jeff Foster