Unconditional Love: Jesus
Illustration by ChatGPT Unconditional love is not quite humanly possible. That’s what I’ve learnt from experience. At least not consistently. We are finite, vulnerable, and shaped by many needs. Our love is inevitably entangled with expectation, hurt, memory, and self-protection. We withdraw when wounded, hesitate when trust is broken, and usually give in proportion to what we receive. Hence, unconditional love is hard to sustain. Perhaps great souls like Jesus and Buddha were capable of unconditional love. But even for them, it wouldn’t have been quite easy or natural. It would have demanded a terrible lot of discipline. Unconditional love is practised, struggled toward, and perhaps only intermittently materialised. Unconditional love requires a different grammar which does not expect reciprocity, recognition, or reward. I would like to look at how a man, who is believed by millions to be an incarnation of the divine, practised unconditional love, if only to help us understand t...
