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What Is LOVE?
Dear Readers,
It seems the new year just began and yet we are already half way into February preparing to share sentiments of love with the objects of our affections. So what is this thing called LOVE and why do we dedicate an entire day and spend millions of dollars as a society to celebrate it?
As I sit with people each day I am privy to their deepest hopes, dreams, aspirations, and fears. I have the unique privilege of assisting people through the intricate process of discovering the things about their lives that do not enrich their existence and to hone in on and define those elements of life that support, sustain, and give meaning to life itself. In this discovery process we work through personal goals, health goals, and professional goals, defining strategies and plans of action that will help them achieve all they desire.
Remarkably, even with all of these seemingly important aspects that we focus on and aspire to, we invariably find that the most elemental force behind a person’s genuine happiness and freedom is…LOVE. The essential need we each have to love and be loved is what drives us to look better, do better, feel better and BE better! LOVE gives both power and meaning to every other thing we do in life.
The LOVE we experience within each type of relationship we participate in has special qualities which fulfill us in different ways. The love we have for our children helps us feel needed and connected to a purpose greater than ourselves. The love we feel for parents often has an element of gratitude and respect for all of their sacrifices in helping us learn and grow. The love we have for good friends gives us freedom to be ourselves with few strings attached.
However, the most important love relationship we have in this life is the love we share with our significant life partner. True LOVE between a man and woman creates a wholeness in each that cannot be experienced separately. When you talk to people who are truly in love they agree that sharing their lives together has given them feeling of internal completeness.
Ann Landers once said:
“If you have LOVE in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don’t have it, no matter what else there is, it’s not enough.”
It is said that GOD IS LOVE. I believe there is no greater truth. When we choose love as the vehicle to make everything else happen in our lives – our lives expand exponentially in every direction. What greater power is there than LOVE?
Imagine how much more fulfilling our lives could be if we continue to celebrate our love for the people who matter the most to us all year instead of just one day. Remember that the energy of your love is never lost. It only expands as it is given…the more love you give the more you will experience love returned to you….WISHING YOU A HAPPY AND LOVING VALENTINES DAY!
Crystal
February 28th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
I love you.
Always,
Robby
February 29th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
I LOVE your newsletters and look forward to them each month. I have benefited so much from your CDs. I am so happy I attended your classes at the Alternative Health Conference..you have been my life saver!!
March 15th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
Unconditional Love… BeiYin
‘Unconditioned’ only exist when the person who is loving is not conditioned and this for
sure is not the case if you love your children. You don’t know if you would love them the
same way if they would not be your children. You say yes, but the simple fact that they
are your children is a condition and this love has it’s base in an inbuilt instinct. Do you
love all children the same like your own children? Probably not, but if you do so, then still
there is a condition: They are children. Do you love all humans? Probably not, you will
make distinctions, why? Because you are conditioned. If you love all humans, then you have
still the condition that they are human. If you would love all existing being, no matter
what it is, then your love might be without conditions. But who is capable for this? A very
few human beings in the history of humanity. But they have given us something to strive
for… So we all have images about what love could be. And we have made these images to
such an intense property that we believe we possess these images. We try to live these
images and we adapted them to situations as much as possible. If it doesn’t fit really then
we don’t look too near…
The dilemma is, that possessing these images, we are not capable to see the reality and we
don’t want to see it, because then we would need to correct our concept of reality and
this we don’t want. So we prefer to defend what we believe is our truth. We easily feel
offended and take information personal feeling attacked. Do you see what I mean?
I personally don’t need to ‘believe’ that there are these ‘possibilities’ because I ‘know’
that it exist, but I also know that the concept about it is not realized and I am convinced
that this is the main reason for most of our problems in daily life: The discrepancy
between our image and our daily reality. We try to fit it somehow and it doesn’t work, so
we have found a lot of tricks to survive with our concepts: We escape, we fight, we don’t
look, we get angry, we find a reason, etc.
Do you feel offended now? It should be clear that this is not my intention. It should be
also clear that this is your reaction out of your defense, because you need to defend your
position, your image, your concept, your opinion. You are identified with this and this
makes your ‘personality’. This is the reason why you are separated from others. Your
intention to go beyond the separation is coming out of a strong longing. Probably out of
this is born the identification with images which then are felt like a ‘quasi realization’.
This is obvious but difficult to see, because it is a common state of partial blindness. Can
you somehow sense what I am talking about?
I believe that we are entering in times where our survival depend on our capability to
drop our blinders…