July 12, 2007

• Random Thoughts About Love

  “Things are not always as they seem.”

  I know that’s an old phrase and something we tend to “toss out there” when we feel slightly mystified by the occasionally counterintuitive workings of the Universe.

  Sometimes– even when you know that “things” are not as they appear, and know this with the utmost conviction– ”things” can appear in such a way that you have moments of doubt. Even when you know the doubt is a waste of time. Even when you know you have no reason to doubt.

  It makes me realize that even though we often support the idea that our minds– our intellect– must prevail over “heart” in order to make sense of things, there are also times where the heart– with its utter conviction and determination– must prevail over the fact that nothing is making sense, from a logical intellectual perspective.

  Maybe it’s a bit like finding balance between intuition and logic.

  And perhaps there is no part of the human experience where this becomes more important than when we consider love. Love (and I am talking “higher” or “soul” love here, not your garden variety “ego-based” love) is– at least for my money– the highest level of human awareness. It is the purest and most beautiful gift we can give ourselves, and others.

  And, at the soul level, things are definitely not always “as they seem.”

  I was having a conversation, yesterday, with Someone… and we ended up laughing knowingly, as we understood the simple piece of “logic” that governs soul-level love, and yet confounds 99% of the world, and keeps them trapped (and not saying it’s always a BAD thing) in the world of ego-love:

  As long as you are looking for love, you are actually making an open admission that you don’t have it. It’s very simple, really. I can’t both look for something, and have it, at the same time. It’s a paradox. The only hope of “having,” is to stop “looking.” And even that… is beside the point. Soul-level love isn’t something that can be “had,” in the first place, because it is something that simply Is. You can’t “own” it, and you can’t “posess” it, and you can’t “find” it somewhere. Because, it comes from inside yourself… and the only way to experience it, is to be it. When you realize that you are love, you attract love, in kind. Nobody can “give” it to you, you give it to yourself.

  It’s just that simple.

  And that’s why all those goo-roos and “experts” tell us to work on our relationships with ourselves, first.

  No, it really is that simple.

  And things are not always as they appear…

  Because– sometimes– we have to say things, and do things (due to circumstances, and where we are on Our Path), that don’t necessarily reflect who we ARE. But the Universe knows, and “things” will– as inevitably as the incoming tide– sort themselves out, and Love will prevail.

  Oh, and there are no rules. So stop trying to fit it into some neat little “box.” Just as it can’t be “found,” it also does not have a “shape” or a “format.” It’s free, an opening, an allowing… with no contingencies, or dependencies.

  It simply IS.

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