(Nimue)
It's a concept that has tended to bother me - my feeling is that the universe is neutral and impersonal and sometimes existence is challenging. However, I also think that those vague spiritual memes are going about this all wrong.
We are all tiny parts of the universe. We each get to make some decisions about how the universe behaves and how it treats others. If you like the idea of a benevolent universe, you can choose to embody that. Be the love that the universe shows to those who live in it.
We're small and finite beings - we are certainly limited by time and by our physical bodies. The idea of love might be limitless, but the ways in which you can embody love are much more constricted. But you can choose to embody love, and choose to bring love into the world in a meaningful way. If you are undertaking love as a verb, as something you do rather than something you just feel, then you will have an impact on others.
It feels powerful doing this in a deliberate way. Saying to yourself 'today I will be how the universe shows love' and taking on that role. There's beauty in it, and room to feel meaningful and to experience your own significance, and those are all really good things.
As you are not the whole universe, you don't have to try and love everything and everyone. You can just reach out to those around you, human, non-human, animate, not so animate… love in whatever way makes sense to you. Manifest care on whatever terms make sense. Feed something, speak kindly to someone, smile warmly at someone, help someone, give your time or other resources to aid something. It all works.
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