We talk a lot about ‚love’, but do we really know, what Love is?

We use the word in many occasions but do we really act and understand Love?

In my humble opinion we have to understand that for all of us, the word love will imply something different as we all have different opinions, different views, different upbringing, different conditioning and different expectations.

When we look at the four letters of de word you can hardly believe that this word can start quarrels, fights and even war! All coming from those different believes, backgrounds and opinions. So to come understand the word love we have to let go of our own ideas about it and at least respect what others believe, so they may find there own truth.

 

As we try to find an explanation for the word we can say love is; respect, feeling, emotion, sometimes detachment, sometimes attachment.  Words of love can be correcting people, but also stimulating them. Love can be letting go of someone, but also accepting people as they are. Love is an energy, a vibration touching our lives, changing it from time to time as we learn and grow in our understanding of the word, of that energy.

But we have to realize that as long as we look for the answer what Love is… we still ARE not the Love. Love is a word as long as we don’t make it an action.

Only in the Being-ness of the action we find the truth of love, as it will transform us from the human comprehension of the word into the spiritual awareness of being Love.

In this awareness we see the truth of our Being, our oneness in which we overcome the struggle of separation, as we know that we are all One.

In this oneness we have no needs, no judgment………as we understand that every struggle is a struggle against ourselves.

 

As long as we put conditions on our love, as long as we think we know love, as long as we try to be love, or to send love, we are far away from the truth.

Bringing love into action is the first step of recognizing the Divine inside, as your first action will be, loving yourself. When you are able to do so, it will be not possible anymore to hate others, as you rediscover your connection with All. In this awareness your actions are filled with the love vibration coming from that Truth.

 

 When we look at our lives we see that we still have problems dealing with our emotions coming from our conditioning, from our expectations and in this awareness of Love we have to forgive ourselves first to free ourselves from those feelings, those emotions to give ourselves the opportunity of growing into more awareness of Love and Light.

Love is a state of being, not a process, not an action, but the essence of our spiritual being, which we have to rediscover in the process of living this human live.

 

We can only reach this state of being as we are in peace with ourselves, than we may radiate this Love into this world. As long as we feel the turmoil, the needs inside we see them reflected in our world. Love and peace in this world can only be reached as soon as we find them inside ourselves. As soon as we start paying gratitude to all what we receive instead of expressing our ‘needs’, we see the abundance given to us. All is there, we only have to accept………….

We have made the first start in recognizing Love as we understand that Love IS.

Love is the essence of our being. Now we have to accept this truth.

It looks very simple, but can we accept this or do we struggle in our disbelieve of such a wonderful truth? Do you feel worthy of this truth? Many of us cannot even find one good quality of him or her self. We are experts in judging ourselves, we are too fat, we did not accomplish the things we wanted, we are experts in needing things, a better job, a nice house, the love of your life etc…..  and now we hear this truth, that everything is there for us, being this spiritual being, with Love as our essence ????

 

Difficult, isn’t it??

Only when we understand that we can hardly believe this truth, because of our conditioning, we give ourselves the chance of recognizing truth.

How many times are we corrected by good willing people as our parents, teachers etc to adjust into this world, to behave, to listen, to fit into this community, this environment, to be ‘normal’, as everything or everyone who is not conform the standard is separated and called ‘strange’, silly, or mad?

 

As we know there are many emotions but always related back to 2, Love and Fear.

In fear we separate from love, from peace. In acting differently from the rest, we feel the judgment of others and we immediately feel the ‘need’ to go back to this love and peace feeling, and as we are told (by good willing people most of the time)that we only have to act, like this or that, we gradually accept and  adjust to the standard.

As a child we come into this world, without expectations, we accept and we trust that we are taken care of. As we grow up we learn how to behave, and are loosing our trust, even the trust in ourselves. Only by listening to others, and ignoring the Self.

 

It is no surprise that it feels hard to trust yourself again, to listen to yourself, as you have never learned to do so. The truth was always coming from outside, from someone else.

Now you have to turn around and look inside, finding your own truth, finding your own peace, to be able to act from your own awareness level, being this spiritual being, living this human life. This spiritual knowledge comes from giving up what you think you know and surrender to what is. The love to yourself will be the answer to your deepest sense of separation as you look at the fear recognizing that all fear betrays a lack of love.

 

We are all learning a great lesson. The lesson is, of course to realize our godhood, our connectedness with the Source, with all that exists. The lesson is to realize that everything is connected and that we are part of it all. Love is the basic building block, so when one has love, all possibilities exist, then we truly understand that everything is given to us.

 

In Love and Light, Wil, 30.01.2005.

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