What is love ?

What is love?

This has been a pestering question that has plagued humanity since the dawn of time. We think we understand it. I know I believe that my definition of love is correct yet I will argue that yours is not. This lack of acceptance of another's opinion demonstrates that I do not understand love. So much has been done in the name of love. Such as buying flowers at Valentines Day, or building a world wonder ( The Taj Mahal) by Shah Jahan in honor of the woman he loved.Yet in the name of love a man was willing to sacrifice his country to protect the one he loved, there are many examples in history, let's remind ourselves of Troy.  Love is used as a shield to protect one from violence as a mother jumps into harms way to protect a child in danger. 

People are torn apart in the name of love for their ideas or ideals. People come together for the love their ideas and ideals such as relationships in both personal as well as professional circles. Love for a relative can lead to sacrifices that they would never have addressed in dire situations. 

Love is pure energy resonating at an extremely high frequency. It permeates every cell of every body and can travel across a universe with the speed faster than light. Love is a ubiquitous and formless. It is not dependant on anyone or anything. Love is infinite and is maintained within every atom everywhere. I would present the case that it is truly the glue that holds the building blocks of matter together. The lack of it, is what tears things apart. 

Love exists. You were born into it, through it, and from it. Had the universal mind of intention not had love for you then you would not exist. Love is thought, word, action and transmission instanteously and simultaneously present at all times. When  you see the sun, you do not differentiate the sun rays coming at you from the sun rays traveling in the directions further from you. Such is the nature of love. Love is the sun that transmits continually and omnidirectional. 

Our fears come from the separation of our identity of love and in doing so the path we travel becomes slippery and negative. Love is the destination that we all long to reach. Unfortunately, we fail to realize that love is not a destination but in fact love is the state we already are in and not outside of us in what we seek. 

You are love. Don't believe me? Look in the mirror and find yourself.

Spring

Spring. 

The cold winds pierce my ears. The white of the snow blinds my eyes. The arctic chill freezes my bones. I lay dormant within. Not all is gloom and doom as another cycle is forecast and awaits its turn on the ferris wheel of seasons to emerge. Just below the ground is a knowing of nature to turn the clock and respond to the alarm bells of an awakening. The seeds germinate, the grasses will grow, the flowers will emerge beautiful and bright. The birds will sing their melodies galore, and the animals shall partake of the feasting of life.

As the invitation of spring awakens my heart, I find that the seeds of love planted so long time ago as an innocent child begin to now germinate as I let go of the wintry  past of old experiences. The cracks of timelines of afore have been sealed and a new mold emerges with the season of my heart's awakenings. The landscape is unknown yet the tools to forge it are. Patience, and lighter footing I will tend this spring garden with care and ease.

The pulsating beats of the earth's slow movements stirs my heart and my senses to allow me to metabolize all that I have detested and transform my mind into one of tolerance. The blossoming flowers of my thoughts emboss visions of a greater future that is ever known. The songs of birds are fine pieces of music of my soul that permeate through every cell and nerve fiber as I resonate now with the brightness of the sun. 

The cycles of nature and me are synced. As they are for everyone on the planet as we are part of nature. Our own cosmic awakenings are timed to our own choices. We choose when to hit the snooze button or when to respond to the alarm. Yet once awake, one cannot help but begin the process of clearing up older programming and cleaning up false ideas from older timelines. 

You? How is your spring clean up going?

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I love you

An altar offering

An altar offering

This invitation was unforeseen, and took me for a surprise.  It was an offering unlike any other. It was necessary and deliberate. I have walked far and wide to reach this point and to my gentle gaze I came upon an altar that has long awaited my homage. It called out to me as it has done so for decades and yet I ignored its presence. It was the  altar of despair and desperateness . Crying out with shame and pain I succumbed to its call and surrendered. 

I humbly  surrendered my heart and soul to the burden of this abode as I had no where else to place it. Far too long we hold on to the denial of the aliveness of our hearts and believe that there is no hope in the face of mounting stresses of our busy and hectic parade of life.This time it accepted this sacrifice without question. To my astonishment the altar responded. My heart that once lay bare upon its stony feet burned with  a new metabolized offering of love. 

The offering and surrendering of our deepest and most secret of selves to the universe is always met in kind with the grand gesture of relief. A lifted burden is an immeasurable gift. Now the radiant heart with lightened load is returned as a gift of light from the transformed altar. This time is was my turn to accept the offering. The giver becomes the receiver just as the receiver becomes the giver. The majesty of the moment was the alchemy of love. An unconditional gift of Me or You at a time when every cell of the body screams to the mind to hold back. It is this leap of faith and surrender that catapults the gift to merge and return magnified. 

The salty earth and the unbound transparent sky bears witness to the exchange. And with it my spirit allowed the experience to unfold. The altar and I are one. We always have been. I chose not to see it, accept it, and denied its existence for what seemed like an eternity. No more. It was time to come home.

Your own altar calls. Are you willing to make an offering of your heart?  

A life of opposites

A life of opposites

We run our lives with the definitions in a 2 dimensional fashion. Everything that we know is identified based on an understanding of its opposite. Up and down, front and back, good and bad, love and fear. Yet only one of these opposites is incorrect. Love. 

Our nervous system is attacked in every direction by some stimulus. We define it initially by what it is not. Then we react to it with equal vigor. And so stay and remain in the state of oppositional reactions. When fear comes rearing its ugly head we define it as being "not-love." I find myself reacting to it "not-love" with more "not love" as then bring upon my psyche more "not love." However this is where I have discovered my fallacy. Perhaps you have too. " Not love" or fear is not in fact the opposite to love. Simply because "Love" has no opposite. 

Love is complete.  Love is togetherness. Love is whole and surrounding. Love is pure energy of a higher vibrational frequency than anything else in the universe. It travels faster than the fastest thing that we believe. It travels faster than light. Love is eternal and has no beginning and no end. It is infinitesimal  and infinite all at the same time. There can be no opposite of something this non dimensional. 

It is when I allowed my heart to break and engage the magic of the moment I discovered this to be true. The shaking of fear is replaced by the embrace of love. Fear is dissipated  not because it can in some way be misconstrued to be an opposite of love, yet more because a blanket so large can always cover the entire bed without ever seemingly be a part of the bed at all. The opposite of fear is safety. Feeling secure. Just one of countless qualities that lies within the all encompassing myriad of the energy form called love. 

Love has no opposite. Allowing this word and its definition rekindle your cells into an old knowing is empowering in itself. Happiness for me began when I chose to no longer live under the out of date idea of living with definitions of opposites. 

Happiness began by enveloping love. I hope it does for you too.

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I love you

The gift of you

The Gift of You.

Exchanging gifts. A time honored tradition on special occasions. We are always excited to receive gifts and many a time even more enthusiastic to give a gift. Yet some gifts are eventually returned, some gifts are frowned upon, and then most  are accepted graciously. The gift is tangible. An object to be experienced. However what if the gift is an invitation of yourself. 

Wrapped in the moment of now lies a gift that is worthy to all without question. It is the presence of You or Me that is offered unconditionally. The connection of being is hastened by love just as the invitation of separateness is soon withdrawn. The aliveness of the spirit resonates infinitely when it is then offered to another. It is then in the holding of the space of the moment that the worlds disintegrate and time is dissolved into the sink hole of nothingness and what remains is the illumination of love. 

The desire to offer one self is a great initiator of transformation for both the giver and the receiver. As the essence of being identifies the other, just as an old friend  is found, it rekindles a long lost relationship that begins anew. The nervous system comes alive with love that emanates from another and the gap is filled with the void of joy. A recognition of a former life amongst the cosmos is immediately accepted when the gift is offered. 

Looking at your own pure heart is the powerful integration of this wrapped gift of love that is eternally awaiting to be opened and released. You are the greatest of all gifts that can be placed on the alter of gratitude, and in doing so you are unwrapped by the universe and scattered amongst all living hearts of consciousness. You are an unreturnable and an invaluable gift of Divine conception given and received to all you meet. 

Perhaps the best gift of all,  is that given to yourself as you honor the process of You and accept it  in its completeness and wholeness for that which you have always longed, is  the tangibility of your Cosmic Self. As the bows of fears of rejection are pulled apart, the perfection of the Light within is revealed, and you emerge from your embodied form into the true nature of You, ready to be given and received time and time again ad infinitum. 

What can be a better gift, than the gift of You. 

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i love you