Category: Love

Love Is Not Divided

1/3/2022

I'd like to share this wonderful article by Charles Eisenstein
(link below)
which is about Love and Peace, Freedom and Joy
and how we sometimes lose sight of all of that
as we look at others with suspicion and judgment.

Those unvaccinated sometimes look with judgment
toward those who are vaccinated
and those who are vaccinated sometimes
look with judgment toward those who are unvaccinated.

The other day as I was thinking about all of this this is what came to me, "How I live is more important than that I live."

Divide, Conquer; Unite, Heal

Freedom From Free Reveals Love

4/19/2021

Freedom from fear involves freedom from trying to control both what's going on internally and externally.

When conditioning yells “Be afraid!” and then tries to control what's going on internally it’s time to inquire about what is true.

When others dictate “Be afraid!” and then try to control what's going on externally it’s time to inquire about what is true.

Falling in line with any fear based ‘inner or outer’ voice
clouds our understanding and sensing of freedom and love.

Fear and control march in lockstep to confuse and veil
and
Freedom and Love flow as one to clarify and reveal.

"To be free of fear is to be full of Love." Adyashanti

If You Like Butterflies Please Don't Do This

1/11/2021

There's a saying “If you like butterflies you don’t go around stepping on caterpillars.”

With what’s going on in our country at the moment with all of the divisiveness it’s easy to point fingers at others views or actions and not consider anything deeper.

When we are in pain we do hurtful things. There is no way around this.
In order to live well we must come to a place where we are no longer suffering.

When we look at what people do (or even at what we do) and judge them (or ourself) as bad it's similar to seeing a caterpillar - and only seeing a caterpillar.

Eyes turned inward see the butterfly in every caterpillar.
It is already so - at the very same time it is becoming so.

Sometimes it takes some time
for us to shed enough layers of our 'cocoon'
in order for the warmth of What Already Is to be revealed.

Love Without Borders

6/15/2020

It’s so easy to love when others do what we think they should
but if love is really unconditional then it has no borders.

What's easy doesn't mean it's true.

Waking up to our true nature is a call to the knowing of this love.
If we’re selective with love - if anyone at all is excluded –
then that's an invitation - an opportunity - to look deeper.

Our thoughts tell us love has limits -
certain people at certain times seem outside of our love.
Thoughts know nothing about love - how can they?
They're only thoughts ...

but our Heart knows.

Thankfully, we can always choose what to trust.

Why Look For What Is Unconditional In Conditions

2/20/2020

Why is it that although we seek unconditional peace or love
we believe we will find it within certain conditions?

If we seek to find what is unconditional
why not then be open to the possibility
that what we seek is actually now unconditional –
which is to say that it is fully here now regardless of any condition ...

rain, sleet, an insensitive person, an unconscious politician,
an empty bank account, an illness ....

Soften your eyes. Notice your breath.
Sense Life Directly.

Love says, "I see the real you - do you?"

1/26/2020

The movements of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Gandhi were not only to free the oppressed but also the oppressors.

They saw clearly that those oppressing others were ignorant - not only about those they were oppressing but also about who they actually are.

There is a saying, "I want to be who my dog believes me to be" but maybe dogs sense the truth that some of us don't yet realize ourselves.

When All Strategies Exhaust Themselves What Is Here?

11/17/2019

I used to be very stressed out. I enjoyed making lists and checking things off –
the busier I was the better I felt. I had daily goals and long term goals and I thrived on getting things done. During this time I accomplished much and felt good about it all even though there was a lot of stress in the doing of it. My mind raced, my heart pounded and my body was often tense and for a time I thought that stress was a normal part of life.

When we forget our innate Wholeness we believe we either have to earn it, demand it or withdraw to find it. And even though most of us use all three of these strategies at different times we are often programmed to favor one.

For me it was largely about earning my way back to Wholeness. I felt there was something wrong and to make it right I needed to be the responsible one, the good one, the helpful one.

Believing we need to earn our way is a bit different than believing we need to demand or withdraw our way. Although all three strategies come from a sense of lack – a forgetfulness of Wholeness - in some ways the earning strategy can be more difficult to detect and see our way out of than the other two.

When we try to earn our way, our conditioned self image may come across as
kind, loving, funny, successful, competent, energetic, or spiritual. Although we continue to be confused and stressed out, the image we have of ourself may, at a certain level, seem positive to ourself and others. And sometimes the positive feedback we get from others keeps us stuck in this false self image for quite some time.

Honesty is what helps pave the way out.

When we are truthful with ourself and admit that we are using our humor, success, helpfulness, busyness, kindness or charm to try and get what we believe we do not yet have, we open to the possibility of sensing what is ‘beyond’ that false self image to what is always here now.

Opening to the truth of what is here is a letting go of what is false -
and initially there may be quite a bit of discomfort in the letting go.

It may feel like a kind of death as we allow the discomfort that may come when
responding from the heart rather than reacting from a sense of lack.

When we feel that something is lacking we use our humor, helpfulness, busyness to try and feel whole, to try and get others to like us or appreciate us in a certain way. And when we know Wholeness those strategies no longer make sense and gradually fall away.

As we stop reacting to the false sense of lack we may then not appear as helpful or loving or competent or busy as we used to which may upset some people and for a time be uncomfortable for us.

Allowing the discomfort that often comes as we let go of those strategies,
allows us to more fully sense our true Self and finally respond rather than react to Life.

Love is free of all strategy

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