Not "feeling" Love is also Love.

This morning I woke up with a deep sense of calm and peace and with the feeling and sense that I had no desire to 'do' anything - and it was definitely not because I was not in the mood or feeling unwell, or any such thing, but simply because of a deep desire to pull back from the usual routine of early morning activities and just observe every feeling and emotion and desire that was passing through me as soon as I became a bit more conscious of the world I was waking up to - the material world. I did not feel any compulsion to get down to doing the usual morning activities. I just relaxed! Relax? Really? At 5.30 a.m. after a deep sleep? Wow! this was definitely a first. I was beginning to experience the result of thinking the highest thoughts about myself. The usual and 'normal' rules do not apply when you elevate your thoughts. By just BEING in this experience, it seemed like I was paying attention to my Life as deepest I knew how in this moment. When you spend time with yourself this way, you begin to feel so much self love - a very spiritual kind of love. Even if you are not aware of it as love, it IS love.

It felt really, really good to feel this way. I felt free and unencumbered with no obligation to do any one particular thing but instead to embrace everything exactly as it is. This must be what Real Love is.  No separation in any way. Love for Love's sake. I think the moment we begin to give Love a definition, we loose the sense of Love. We separate ourselves from the Whole to act in accordance with our individual notions. We feel we have got to do certain things to express love for another. Well, I have been there and done that. It does'nt work. You just have to keep repeating yourself in order to feel the limited experience of Love. And that is truly a pity - a sin really. To not know we are Love's Presence is to do a great injustice to ourselves.

The human love is all about holding love for someone and withholding love from another. It is always conditional and filled with expectations.  There have been so many times in my life when I have said "Love You" to someone and they have not acknowledged it or felt enough mutual love to spontaneously reciprocate. Since in that moment I am experiencing and expressing a deeper sense of Self Love it matters not to me whether a person reciprocates or not. There are certain people in my life who still do that - its like they're saying "hmm ... I like you because I have little choice, but don't push it to expecting love!!". I definitely can live with that now and it feels even more liberating because it was something that was not possible for me in the past.

Love just IS. There's nothing to do or experience from effort. Love just IS. If you're not feeling the magnificence of Love, its okay because not feeling Love is also Love because the moment you do a self inquiry, you begin to realize Love has numerous ways to make Itself Present. Love IS Spirit. And there is only ONE Power and ONE Presence. There is not two. If you're not feeling Love, get on the wisdom medicine raft of self inquiry and stay there till you feel differently. Till you feel one with God. Its worth the effort!

How may I be of service?

With Love & Oneness,

L xo 

Love Has No Other Desire But To Fulfill Itself.

I Am here right now, right in this place and right in this space. There is no other place I would rather be. No matter what's happening in my life. No matter what's happening in my country. No matter what's happening in the world. I Am here right now and there is no other place I would rather be. 

The whole world stands on the threshold of major changes which are taking place right now. Impurity in every form be it greed, anger, lust, war, etc.etc. are becoming transparent.  The whole world is affected. The whole world is getting a makeover. What affects one, affects all. I am reminded of one of my most favored poems by Khalil Gibran that perfectly expresses in such magnificent poetry how Love encapsulates the Soul and what Love does when one responds to the call of Love. Unconsciously, at the Soul level, we have each beckoned Love to come and heal us. And that is what is happening right now. We are each being healed by a Love that is beyond our human understanding.  I Am here very present in this moment of great healing.

Kahlil Gibran on Love

When love beckons to you, follow him,

Though his ways are hard and steep.

And when his wings enfold you yield to him,

Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

And when he speaks to you believe in him,

Though his voice may shatter your dreams

as the north wind lays waste the garden.

For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning.

Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun,

So shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.

Like sheaves of corn he gathers you unto himself.

He threshes you to make you naked.

He sifts you to free you from your husks.

He grinds you to whiteness.

He kneads you until you are pliant;

And then he assigns you to his sacred fire, that you may become sacred bread for God's sacred feast.

All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life's heart.

But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure,

Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor,

Into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.

Love possesses not nor would it be possessed;

For love is sufficient unto love.

When you love you should not say, "God is in my heart," but rather, "I am in the heart of God."

And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.

But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires:

To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.

To know the pain of too much tenderness.

To be wounded by your own understanding of love;

And to bleed willingly and joyfully.

To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving;

To rest at the noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy;

To return home at eventide with gratitude;

And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.

In Love!

 L♥