AT LAST I made it here! My name is Eric but Huggie says something more about me.
Back in the seventies, I deceided that Unconditional Love was the most important lesson we need to learn in this life, so I created workshops to teach that and how to use the energy of Heart-Centred Love.
I really had a ball with that. As they came in, I would hear someone say "This guy thinks he can teach us about Love-Ha Ha" but half way through that would change to "This is what I have been looking for all my life!' Yeah to that; and so has everybody else!
I have a lot of stuff to share. I will post most days if this old computer will let me.
I would ask for definitions of Love. Some were awful and all were too narrow. Here's what I came up with (received),
"LOVE IS THE WILLINGNESS TO BE AT-ONE WITH ANOTHER BEING!
A true story to show this,
When this four y.o. boy heard the neighbour had lost his wife, he went over to him and climbed on the old man's knee and stayed a long while.
When he went home they asked, "What did you say to him?"
Te boy replied"NOTHING! I JUST HELPED HIM CRY!
What insight, what compassion, what willingness to be at-one with the old man and his grief. What Unconditional Love!
With Love,
Huggie

Love is not always easy and to love unconditionally is even more challenging at times. I have to tell myself (often) that everyone has a right to be who it is they are, & that everyone is the best person he can be right now. I remind myself to respect everyone and I can then love everyone.

When I first began to figure this out, it seemed too simple. Puting it into practice became a full-time job. Now, it's a part-time job. Hopefully, with more practice, it will just be volunteer.

While leading a group on 'Happiness' I used a book, "Secrets About Life Every Woman Should Know" by Barbara DeAngelis. In one of the secrets she recalled being in love with a man who, as it turned out, was just a stinker. She remembered how much love she felt during this romance and then realized that it was not coming from him--it was in her. It had all originated from her. This revelation really opened my understanding of loving myself 'unconditionally'. Peace, Robin

Hi Huggie and Robin,

My definition of UNCONDITIONAL LOVE is to love myself under every condition and its opposite.

And since words describe all conditions, that definition can be stated as:

Love of myself as every word and its opposite.

And since all names are words, that definition can also be stated as:

Love of myself as all names.

Example:
I love myself as all words or names
so that I automatically love myself no matter what words or names others see me as or call me,
and
so that I automatically love all people no matter what words or names people are or are to me.

I learned this in 1981, and have been teaching it since then.

With all Love and Respect,
Oliver