Special love - Words in A Course in Miracles

Love is of God, and like God, there is nothing real that is outside of it. The ego's attempt at replacing the universality of Love with special and separate relationships is really a fear of the all inclusiveness of Truth.

The demand for specialness, and theperception of the giving of specialness as an act of love, would make love hateful. The real purpose of the special relationship, in strict accordance with the ego's goals, is to destroy reality and substitute illusion. For the ego is itself an illusion, and only illusions can bethe witnesses to its "reality."      T-16.V.9:3-5.

Whenever any form of special relationship tempts you toseek for love in ritual, remember love is content, and not form of any kind. The special relationship is a ritual of form, ... There is no meaning in the form, and therewill never be. The special relationship must be recognized for what it is ... the sign that form hastriumphed over content, and love has lost its meaning   T-16.V.12:1-4.

The special love relationship is an attempt to limit the destructive effects of hate by finding a haven in the storm of guilt. It makes no attempt to rise above the storm, into the sunlight. ... The special love relationship is not perceived as a value in itself, but as a place ofsafety from which hatred is split off and kept apart. The special love partner is acceptable only as long as he serves this purpose. T-16.IV.3:1-5.

In Heaven, where the meaning of love is known, love is the same as union. Here, where the illusion of love is accepted in love's place, love is perceived as separation and exclusion.    T-16.V.3:7,8.

The meaning of love is the meaning God gave to it. Give to it any meaning apart from His, and it is impossible to understand it. God loves every brother as He loves you; neither less nor more. He needs them all equally, and so do you.    T-15.V.10:3.