A Reflection on Universal Love
The Invisible Thread
There is a love that needs no name. It is unseen but unmistakably real. This love is not romantic, yet it is deeply intimate. Not selective, yet it sees you. Not loud, yet it echoes across galaxies, stars, planets, spacetime, energy, matter, physical laws, cells, molecules, atoms, subatomic particles, and quantum fields. Universal love could be said to be the apex of love which is the highest from of love that some say transcends ego, attachments, and conditions. Some call it agape love which is unconditional or divine love while others call it spiritual love that unites souls or consciousness no matter what some may refer to it as universal love is the most completed form of love that is rooted in truth and unity.
What Is Universal Love?
If Aries is the leader of the zodiac signs than universal love is the leader of love. This is an unconditional, selfless love that lets people forgive, respect, and serve others no matter what. Universal love could be said to be the glue that holds love together. It is the heartbeat of love. No matter what you call it by. It is known as unconditional love which in itself is a limiting and restrictive term making it subjective in nature, when it should be independent of ones opinion. As true universal love is void of conditions due to the fact that it supersedes us on a cellular level. This is a love that is all – encompassing containing everything within it. This is a deeper boundless love that extends to everyone encompassing the entire universe. Universal love is not a possession. It is not earned, bought, or begged for. It simply is. It is the love that does not ask: Do I like you? but rather: Do I see you? Do I recognize you as part of me? This is not the fire of desire nor the loyalty of blood it is the still water beneath both. Universal love is the spacious breath between all things, the golden thread that says: You matter because you are.
Where It Lives Across Time and Spirit
It is a state of loving where all aspects of love are present and having balance and harmony. Sacred books and broken hearts have signs of it. In Buddhism it is Metta: loving – kindness extended to all beings. In Christianity it is Agape: A selfless love that asks for nothing. In Sufism it is the spinning dervish becoming one with the divine. In Indigenous wisdom it is the knowing that land, sky, and people are one body. Even science whispers of it now – the truth that all matter is energy, that what touches one particle can ripple through the whole. Some call it divine others call it truth. I call it universal love the quite force that holds us all, asking nothing in return but to be known. It is not new, it is ancient and it is waiting.
Why It’s Essential
We live in a age of walls and borders segregating us from one another through opinions and screens. We are connected more than ever – yet somehow lonelier than we’ve ever been. Universal love honors differences not erase them. It also sees beyond differences too. It is the gentle refusal to hate. The daily discipline of empathy. The quiet resistance to cruelty. It does not shout and is not an escape from division, isolation, or fear but rather a solution that heals.
How Universal Love Moves
It moves, but because it is human to do so. It moves when we listen – truly listen to someone we disagree with. When we feed a hungry animal, it moves when we speak up for the voiceless, when we speak up for the voiceless, when we stop scrolling and start seeing. Universal love is not a theory it’s a practice. A thousand small choices that echo beyond what we can see.
Dispelling the Illusion
Universal love is not weakness. It is not pretending all things are fine nor letting injustices pass unchallenged. To love all does not mean to approve all. It means to include all in your field of care – even when saying no. Universal love has a spine. It can walk through fire. It can say: I will not become what I oppose. That’s power.
An Invitation to Feel
Pause where you are
Close your eyes, if you like – Breath
Think of someone you love
Than think of someone you don’t
Let the same warmth rise in you just for a moment
That warmth is not sentiment it is truth
That is universal love and it’s already yours