A Series of Essays on Love ~ Essay 2: Love Is All.
For those of you new to me I regularly speak to spirit since having an unexpected epiphany back in June 2016.
I am fortunate to have a spiritual team who love, guide and protect me. We all have this but most folks never actually connect with them whilst in their present physical incarnation.
I count myself blessed.
Some while back I was talking to Jason who calls himself “The Corrector”. He is a big gun in team spirit and is not to be trifled with! He is also mightily fair and loving.
This particular day he told me that I would write many books and that my second book would be about – LOVE.
(I still have to finish my first book, “Mama, Mama Are You There”, you can read the prologue here but, as the first draft is virtually completed, I have decided to start to gather my thoughts on LOVE.)
Over the coming weeks I intend to write a collection of stand-alone essays exploring love in it’s many guises. I cannot imagine that what I will write will be academic in nature; rather a homespun spin on what makes the world go around.
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And that'd be Love my friends!
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In spiritual circles the phrase “Love Is All” is often bandied around; trotted out as a salve for all woes and worries – but what does this actually mean?
Essay 2 ~ Love Is All.
When I hear or read this oft used phrase I cannot help but inwardly giggle as I immediately hear myself counter;
“All what?”!
(This is somewhat similar to my outrageous reaction to when I hear the name ‘Hunt’ – without conscious thought I hear, for instance, ‘James Hunt’ and the naughty monkey that is my mind cheekily chirrups up within "James Hunt, What a C++t’!" - (Is this a me thing only I wonder?)).
Anyway, I digress.
The go, go juice of preference for our world to harmoniously turn is Love but the fuel tanks are on low as many folks forget their true nature and the purpose of life which is simply to give, receive and share love.
Love is light/Hate is dark and many of the attributes pedalled in the ‘civilised’ world are, sadly, born of darkness and encourage separation from ones’ fellow man and natural environment.
Darkness comes in varying hues ranging from pure evil to indifference but all conscious dislike, distaste, distrust and hate is an expression of non-love and acceptance. As are greed, avarice, jealousy, lust, loathing et al.
Love is all that is bright and pure. It is respect and reverence for all and all that is and is rooted in the love of self. For without self-love a person is ill equipped to extend love to others and other things.
Love requires that a person’s moral compass is well calibrated and the ear is tuned into the voice of light conscience which, interestingly, I have come to believe is the voice of our higher consciousness and spirit guides at work.
Imagine a world where I treat you as I wish to be treated, where I generously share my knowledge, encouragement and sweeties, without detriment to myself, with you. And you do the same for me. And together we extend these courtesies to others. And all things.
Now that is true love.
And so, Love is all.
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If you missed Essay 1: We All Crave Love And Acceptance, you can read it here.
Coming Soon ~ Essay 3
There are many forms of Love and in Essay 3 I will talk about these.
With Love.
xox
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@Idacey-laforge, I struggle with the concept of love sometimes.
Is there such a thing as non-love? I don't know. I mean, separation certainly doesn't feel like anything that's close to what love is... but doesn't greed often lead to humbleness? And jealousy often lead to acceptance? Or fear... to love?
These "non-love" concepts don't feel like love at all, but I think love is more wise than we know. I think love is love even when it doesn't look like love at all.
If you were to have a life experience that was tremendously difficult and dark, but it allowed you to experience the highest highs and brightest light of all - would that life still be considered non-love?
I think we all probably struggle with the concept of love if being honest.
And yes, I too wonder if someone's 'selfish' selfless act is not a form of love in the lesson it puts forth on how not to be!
As my preamble kinda says I am just feeling around seeking answers to the, ultimately, unanswerable.
Still gotta try eh.
Thanks for popping by.
xox
This is quite some deep spiritual stuff you are saying here @axios 😀
If you are so deep into the caressing arms of Love, that you don´t see any difference anymore between things that are Love and things that are "non-Love", then my friend, you have leveled up in the cosmic spiritual game! I bow before you! ❤️
Thanks for sharing! I´d like to read a book about Love written by a fellow Steemian! ❤️
Oh, there is so much to say about Love and so much to be quite about too.
I guess, the biggest issue for people when getting in touch with the topic of Love is, that they only know it as a feeling and when they hear about Love, they immediately think of it as a feeling they once had (or want to have), when they met their soul mate.
Love comes in many forms and only one tiny bit is the Love for another person and the butterflies in your belly that come with it.
Love is first and foremost an endless space, that lets everything be as it is - and this Love begins with ourself first.
In my experience, we should not worry about, how we can love another, but start to give this Love to ourselves and with that - loving our own heart through the 3 simple words "I love you" that become the most prominent sentence in our internal space - the Love for others is not something we have to do or to strive for, but is a natural expression of our inner space, that touches everyone around us.
I guess, after my TAO articles, I will also focus more on the topic of Love.
In my own spiritual journey over the past 25+ years (I already started when I was very young), I spent most of the time with cultivating the wisdom part and only since 3-4 years, my main focus switched to the other side of the spiritual coin, that is Love. That´s also why over the past years, Matt Kahn has become my main teacher and my only spiritual practice at the moment consists of listening to Matt for at least 2 hours a day. This has enabled myself to become a "spiritual teacher" myself to some people - a journey that is very interesting to follow and that surprises me every day more and more.
Much Love,
Atmos