1 John 2:10 Meaning He Who Loves His Brother Remains

When you truly love another, you have recognized yourself in them, the same aware presence looking out through different eyes. This love is not an emotion the mind produces. It is what remains when the ego's sense of separation dissolves, and it is the very light of consciousness in which you then abide.

In that recognition there is nothing to stumble over. Stumbling comes from the friction of me against you, the grievances and fears the separate self generates. When that separation falls away, the obstacles fall away with it, and you move through life without the constant tripping caused by seeing others as threats.

Loving a brother is described as staying in a room already lit, and the one who does it stops tripping, because the obstacles were mostly his own hidden grudges. Resentment is the dark that hides the step, a private ill will turning an ordinary path into a trap for the feet.

The cure is to love the particular difficult person nearby, not love in the abstract. God is present as that light itself, so to keep loving is simply to remain where He already is, and the stumbling stones dissolve because nothing is left in the shadows to catch a heel.