ॐ✧ Even After All this time, The Sun never says to the Earth, "You owe me." Look What happens With a love like that, It lights the whole sky. ~ Hafiz
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Within love - within the love for your lover, within the love for your family, within your love for the earth and the environment we exist in, within the love for your community.
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Everyday I ask myself where are my intentions behind the love I wish to give each day coming from?
The paws of attachment can rear its head many times in one day, self enquiry is relentless and absolutely necessary - I ask myself - where is this love coming from? .
Do I give from my mind in hope to gain something... the affection of another or some applaud for good will? Am I giving so that I get in return? Or do I give from my heart... recognising and connecting to the abundant flow of kindness that exists within all of us, the offerings of compassion that one can never run out of, consciously trying to allow the endless pool of gratitude that is stored in this body to leak into all actions and words I release? A deeper love, a fulfilling love that sees no boundaries and borders. .
Everyday I set my hopes and intentions on answering yes to the later mentioned love - that higher love - but in the quiet space of self enquiry we cannot hide or lie to our own questions - and sometimes it I find myself, along with every other person, finding an expectation of hope of receiving hiding somewhere behind my act to give, disguised as love....
So I offer myself compassion, I realise - forgive myself - learn - and move through... this is how we grow - this is how we transcend the shadow aspects of ourself.
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I am so grateful for this pattern of analysing myself. I want to radiate love and warmth from the heart - not from the mind..
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Like a vessel that pours through all streams and colours of abundant universal energy, flowing through our bodies and put into the world around us - we can simply glow in this warmth as our offering of love into this world, thus it ceases to exist in a "give and get" energy - but instead in a pool in which we are blessed to swim and saturate our entire bodies in ॐ✧