Personal and Universal Love With the constraints of attachment fallen away, all that remains of what we think of as personal or focused love is love in the universal, transformational sense. It has been there all along, within (and usually obscured by) the "emotional relationship of affection, attachment," "a still small voice" pointing beyond (yet inclusive of) the personal. Is this beautiful commonality not also bodhisattva? (An excerpt from - Listening-I email list)