Mi Altar de amor eterno Para Los Fallecidos y Nuestros Ancianos
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Armando Vazquez. Courtesy photo.
By Armando Vazquez / Guest contributor
Unconditional love is not so much about how we tolerate and endure each other, but rather how we welcome and embrace each other, no matter the circumstances.
Unconditional love is about how we promise ourselves to never under any conditions stop bring the flawed and humble truth of who we are to each other.
Much has been said about unconditional love today, in the noise of the egos it has been badly misconstrued as an extreme form of turning the other cheek; pathetic advise to anyone who has been abused or suffers in pain. This exaggerated passivity is quite different from the unimpeded flow of love that nurtures, strengthens and guides who we are.
In truth unconditional love does not require passive acceptance of whatever happens in the name of love. Rather in the real spaces of our daily relationships it means maintaining a commitment that no event, condition or circumstance will keeps us from bring all of who we are to each other with pure unadulterated honestly.
— Armando Vazquez, M.Ed., founding member of CORE and the Acuna Art Gallery and Community Collective.