Most of us start out thinking of love as something we feel for “our” people.
Family. Friends. Partner.
Maybe a pet or two.
Everyone else is background.
The stranger on the bus.
The person packing your groceries.
The driver in the car you will never meet.
Universal love is a different lens.
It asks you to see each of those people as a full human, not just part of the scenery.
It is not about liking everyone.
It is about recognizing that every life is as real on the inside as yours is.
Spiritual teachers like Marianne Williamson and Deepak Chopra talk about love as more than an emotion.
They say love is your natural state, and fear is what piles up on top.
They describe a deeper “field” that we all share.
A kind of invisible fabric that connects everything that lives.
In that frame, love is not just a feeling in your chest.
It is the way the universe leans toward connection.
You are not separate from that.
You are one point of view inside that field.
So is the person you disagree with online.
So is the person who lives on the other side of the world and will never know your name.
When you look through this lens, universal love sounds less like
“I have to care deeply about everyone all the time”
and more like “I remember that every person I see is carrying a whole world inside, just like me.”
Some thinkers say the universe is made not just of matter and energy, but also of information.
Your life is not just random events.
It is patterns and signals.
A text that arrives at the right moment.
A stranger who says something kind on a hard day.
It is easy to go to extremes.
“Everything is a sign” can feel overwhelming.
“Nothing means anything” can feel empty.
Universal love walks a middle path.
It lets you feel connected, without losing your own choice.
It lets you say, “We are part of the same field,”
and still decide what is healthy and safe for you.
Think about standing in a busy airport.
You look around and see hundreds of people.
Different ages, languages, styles, moods.
On the surface, you have nothing in common.
Underneath, every single person wants the same few things.
To feel safe.
To feel seen.
To know their life matters to someone.
Universal love is remembering that, even for a second.
Not to fix everyone, and not to ignore them.
Just to hold them in your mind as real.