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June 2008 
Love is why you are here!
Posted on Dec 10th, 2007
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Asha
Asha
Love is not “ordinary” in the sense that we generally understand the word “ordinary.” Love is greater than anything that this world has to offer. What this world calls love, for the most part, is not enough to keep any heart feeling alive and happy.
My dear ones, the point of your entire existence is to love. Learn to love, transcend yourselves for the sake of love, for the sake of others. That is the whole reason that you are here, to love. Many people go through their whole lives pursuing other things. When they die they are unfulfilled. No person can be fulfilled until they learn to truly love, to love from the heart, without self-protection, without fear.
Love means that you are aware of others around you, that you care about them from the depths of your heart, with all the emotion and attention that you feel for yourself and your own life. Love means that the spiritual emotional wellbeing of others means everything to you, and you will commit your being and your life to enriching the lives of others, to uplifting their spirits, to reminding them of who they are, to helping them let go of false ideas, and fears, and to love.
This may seem out of reach my dear ones. You may be thinking, “That’s far ahead of where I am. I’m just a beginner in the spiritual path. I’m not saint.” You may then think that you are invalid. My dear ones, you need to understand, that you learn to love by loving. And since there is no other purpose to being here, on this planet, you may as well start now.
It is true that love takes learning to love. It is true, that you will have to go through many cycles of learning what you are doing that is unloving, and adjusting to be more loving. You see, this part of the love itself, to learn, to adjust, to transcend yourself.
There may be many things that you do now that you call love, but you will come to find out that they are not done out of love, but out of fear or self-protection. Love requires that when you see that truth, you face it with courage, and adjust. The ego requires that when you see that fact you collapse, feel terribly ashamed, and fail to make the adjustment, fail to love, because you are too busy feeling bad about yourself. Or else, ego will require you to deny it, or become defensive. Either way, love will not be fulfilled.
Love will be fulfilled when you are willing to be honest. Yes, this is one of the first requirements for love: Self-honesty. When you are self-honest it is because you hold something, or someone, as being more important than defending your bad habits or negative beliefs. When people are willing to look honestly at themselves it is almost always for love’s sake.
So, my dear ones, look around you, at your beloved ones, your friends, your family, whoever is most near to you, and love them. Learn from them what you are doing what is unloving, either by asking them, or by paying attention to their responses to what you are doing. Learn to love them better. Commit yourselves to this task of loving, truly loving.
And also, look at those who you do not consider your friends, and love them too, despite everything that causes you to feel distant from them, or angry or unhappy with them. Love them despite these things. See past their negative attributes and bad habits to the soul that they are, and love that soul, and pray for their release from the bad habits that have bothered you and hurt you for so long.
My dear ones, this is love. Love is to see. Love is to see who people are, and who God is, who God REALLY is, and who people REALLY are, and to love them. And to see what everything really is, and to love everything, as it really is. And also, love is to see what people are going through, and to care, and to respond honestly, without letting self-protective or fearful feelings get in the way.
This is love. Love is to transcend oneself for others. Love is to adjust for others. Love is to see others, and love them. And by means of true love, others feel less and less like others. You come to feel like every man and woman, and God, and the whole earth is your own, your own child, brother, sister. And then, further, you come to feel that these ARE you, part of your own body, your own soul. Your desires are not separate from those of God, or from the true heart’s desires of others. When this comes to be, you will have found inner peace, and there will no longer be any need for struggle.
My dear ones, the point of your entire existence is to love. Learn to love, transcend yourselves for the sake of love, for the sake of others. That is the whole reason that you are here, to love. Many people go through their whole lives pursuing other things. When they die they are unfulfilled. No person can be fulfilled until they learn to truly love, to love from the heart, without self-protection, without fear.
Love means that you are aware of others around you, that you care about them from the depths of your heart, with all the emotion and attention that you feel for yourself and your own life. Love means that the spiritual emotional wellbeing of others means everything to you, and you will commit your being and your life to enriching the lives of others, to uplifting their spirits, to reminding them of who they are, to helping them let go of false ideas, and fears, and to love.
This may seem out of reach my dear ones. You may be thinking, “That’s far ahead of where I am. I’m just a beginner in the spiritual path. I’m not saint.” You may then think that you are invalid. My dear ones, you need to understand, that you learn to love by loving. And since there is no other purpose to being here, on this planet, you may as well start now.
It is true that love takes learning to love. It is true, that you will have to go through many cycles of learning what you are doing that is unloving, and adjusting to be more loving. You see, this part of the love itself, to learn, to adjust, to transcend yourself.
There may be many things that you do now that you call love, but you will come to find out that they are not done out of love, but out of fear or self-protection. Love requires that when you see that truth, you face it with courage, and adjust. The ego requires that when you see that fact you collapse, feel terribly ashamed, and fail to make the adjustment, fail to love, because you are too busy feeling bad about yourself. Or else, ego will require you to deny it, or become defensive. Either way, love will not be fulfilled.
Love will be fulfilled when you are willing to be honest. Yes, this is one of the first requirements for love: Self-honesty. When you are self-honest it is because you hold something, or someone, as being more important than defending your bad habits or negative beliefs. When people are willing to look honestly at themselves it is almost always for love’s sake.
So, my dear ones, look around you, at your beloved ones, your friends, your family, whoever is most near to you, and love them. Learn from them what you are doing what is unloving, either by asking them, or by paying attention to their responses to what you are doing. Learn to love them better. Commit yourselves to this task of loving, truly loving.
And also, look at those who you do not consider your friends, and love them too, despite everything that causes you to feel distant from them, or angry or unhappy with them. Love them despite these things. See past their negative attributes and bad habits to the soul that they are, and love that soul, and pray for their release from the bad habits that have bothered you and hurt you for so long.
My dear ones, this is love. Love is to see. Love is to see who people are, and who God is, who God REALLY is, and who people REALLY are, and to love them. And to see what everything really is, and to love everything, as it really is. And also, love is to see what people are going through, and to care, and to respond honestly, without letting self-protective or fearful feelings get in the way.
This is love. Love is to transcend oneself for others. Love is to adjust for others. Love is to see others, and love them. And by means of true love, others feel less and less like others. You come to feel like every man and woman, and God, and the whole earth is your own, your own child, brother, sister. And then, further, you come to feel that these ARE you, part of your own body, your own soul. Your desires are not separate from those of God, or from the true heart’s desires of others. When this comes to be, you will have found inner peace, and there will no longer be any need for struggle.
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So Beautiful! I'm thrilled to see you sharing your thoughts with us. :-)
” There may be many things that you do now that you call love, but you will come to find out that they are not done out of love, but out of fear or self-protection”
This is a big one for many of us. I have discussed this several times with my fiance lately. In fact just yesterday. Many truly believe that they are living from LOVE,but this is not always the case and the only way you will know is by being honest with yourself.
I reasonate with everything you are saying and have often thought about and discussed the same ideas. As I read this toward the end it made me think of something I had read about how others will judge someone that has committed a crime and yet haven't you yourself committed a crime when you have thought about doing the same things? I wish I could remember the source.
I brought this up because so often we look only with the physical eyes at someone's behavior instead of seeing them as they REALLY are. We are all Love itself living as fear until we re-member that we are Love and that we have a choice whether to resist or surrender to Love.
Much LOVE to you Asha!
Lisha
“We are all Love itself living as fear until we re-member that we are Love and that we have a choice whether to resist or surrender to Love.”
That's really true Lisha. We have a choice to surrender to love, or to resist. Pretty simple when you look at it that way. We make it complicated, and add a bunch of junk on top of it. But really, that is just a kind of avoidance.
We do have a choice. And the choice to love can transcend all the mind junk that seems to be in the way of it.