Question: After a meditation and during a discussion, one man said: “I want my mother to love me, and I expect her to do so. But it’s a one-way street relationship.”

(Note that the following reply comes in the context of one wishing to end all suffering. For this reason, it’s not a therapeutic reply. It’s, instead, a reply coming from the nondual teaching.)

Should it be a two-way street? Who says this? Who believes it?

Whose demands are these? Who expects others to meet those demands?

And, above all, who feels unloved? Who wants another–whoever that may be–to make him whole and complete?

Notice that, right now, what you are is wholeness. There are no streets of any sort–one-way or two-way–running through Being. There isn’t, right here, love for one and not for another. Being is universal love.

You are Being. You are universal love.