Friends and mentors of mine just posted that they love "love" - and of course the feeling itself is beautiful, especially when it flows easily, when everything feels safe, and it is opening, and it connects one to everything around, and life becomes so much bigger and more inclusive.
There is a much bigger dimension to it, though, and it took me a long time to understand that - love is not only a strength of character, but it IS strength. In its deeper dimensions it is not just this airy-fairy feeling that is so easily trashed and used by unkind people, or people who want to feel power, or bad situations and that then turns into hate or despair instead. That is also love, but it is really baby love.
Love in its developed and deepened form is a real power. It gives energy and the determination to pull through when all hope seems gone, it can pull people out of the depth of deepest despair, it can heal wounds that festered for decades, and it can open spaces of creativity when people seem hopelessly locked in negative patterns, playing the same program over and over without the ability to stop.
And to discover that strength, it is necessary to learn how to love when it is not easy, when its expression does not look familiar to those not acquainted with that dimension, when there are no direct outer rewards.
Unconditional love is hard to learn and at first difficult to sustain, but it gives strength to those who let it flow, because they get to experience it first. It is the life blood of the planet, the source of creation - both physical and in higher forms of creativity, and it is the only reason any of us are alive. Literally.
And it is the source of joy!
Blessed are those who have learned how to love no matter what!
And here a bit of inspiration from someone who can say it better than me, sister Shivani:
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