By Gonny 
Rupert Spira says something very simple and very radical: reality is Love. Not love as emotion, not love as romance, not love as attachment, but love as the absence of otherness. Indivisible being.
If there is no “other,” there is no conflict….no distance….no negotiation. There is only seamless presence.
In that sense, Love is not something we feel toward someone. Love is what remains when no separation is imagined.
Now here comes the interesting part:
When that indivisible Love is filtered through perception, multiplicity appears. The One seems to become many. The indivisible seems to divide. And in that apparent division, relationship is born.
Relationship, then, is Love under a veil. (Isn’t that a beautiful way
to say it? 
)
According to A Course in Miracles, the separation never truly happened. It was “a tiny, mad idea” that was taken seriously. The One Son of God seemed to fall asleep and dream of fragmentation.
But the dream did not change Reality.
So what are relationships in ACIM? They are the classroom…they are the mirror….they are Love, trying to remember Itself.
When Love forgets Itself, it experiences relationship as lack. As need. As dependency. As bargaining. “You complete me.” “You hurt me.” “You owe me.”
But when Love begins to remember Itself, relationship shifts. It becomes a reflection rather than a rescue mission. It becomes shared Being rather than mutual survival.
And here is something very tender: Even when people hate each other, Love is still the foundation !
That sounds almost offensive to the ego. “How can hatred be based on Love?”
But look carefully….Hatred only arises when separation is believed. And separation is only possible because Love is veiled. The intensity of hate is the intensity of the forgotten unity. It is distorted longing.
ACIM would say: every attack is a call for Love.
In other words, beneath every broken relationship is the same indivisible Reality, waiting to be recognized.
Reality does not divide…….Perception divides.
Reality is One Self……………Perception sees separate selves.
Reality is Love………………….Perception translates that Love into “me and you.”
And here is the miracle: relationship can dissolve back into Love, not by ending the relationship, but by seeing through the illusion of separation within it.
You don’t have to leave your partner or withdraw from the world.
You don’t have to escape the classroom. You simply look again.
When I believe I am a body relating to another body, relationship is negotiation. When I remember I am Awareness, and the other appears within the same Awareness, relationship becomes recognition.
Not “I love you because you are good to me.” But “I recognize myself in you.”
That is what forgiveness really is in ACIM. Not pardoning a sinner, but seeing that no separation truly occurred.
Relationship dissolved is Love. Love veiled is relationship. Reality remains untouched throughout…and perhaps the most liberating insight of all is
this:
You are not inside a relationship.
Relationship is appearing inside You, as Awareness.
And once that is gently felt, even a conflict becomes softer. Not because behavior changes immediately, but because the ground has shifted. The foundation is no longer two struggling fragments, but One Reality exploring Itself through apparent duality.
The ego wants relationship to prove separation The Holy Spirit uses relationship to undo it.
Same situation. Entirely different interpretation.
Reality is Love. Relationship is Love in disguise.
And the moment you see that, even for a second, something relaxes, not because the world changed, but because you remembered what it is made of.
L O V E ……Always Love.
With love and light,
G.