What do you create when there’s nothing you need? This question serves as a powerful prompt for self-reflection. It delves into the heart of what true love is and how it transforms us from fearful beings clinging to relationships, to expansive creators brimming with the desire to give.
Do you really understand what love is? Or has your experience of love always been based in fear?
It actually is unusual for us humans to get to know love in the absence of fear. Most of us grow up with the message that we are only worthy of love when we are perfect, so our first experience of love is mingled with the fear of being rejected.
Then we approach relationships from that place of fear with a very deep need to be accepted, to belong – or to own, to possess, and always with the lurking fear that perhaps this will all be lost.
Have you ever gotten to the other side of fear to know the incredible force that love really is?
“Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.” – Jack Kornfield
“Love creates a communion with life. Love expands us, connects us, sweetens us, ennobles us. Love springs up in tender concern, it blossoms into caring action. It makes beauty out of all we touch. In any moment we can step beyond our small self and embrace each other as beloved parts of a whole.” – Jack Kornfield
“The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.” – Jack Kornfield
Love is a deep surrender to your true nature, to find yourself so utterly whole that nothing you could add from the outside could possibly make it any better! So whole that you are in fact complete, and there is nothing in this world that you need.
From your own wholeness it’s just obvious how you are a part of the “whole”, how you’re not separate from anything or anyone else and that whatever you do to another you are clearly doing to yourself, the good as well as the bad.
How do you live when you’re this deep in LOVE? How do you live when you have real trust in a reality beyond fear? What do you create when you are SO full that there is nothing in this world that you need?
You create whatever your soul wants to call into existence!
Here are some mantras to guide your journey towards living from love:
- I am worthy of love, just as I am.
- My wholeness allows me to love and be loved unconditionally.
- I trust in a reality beyond fear, and from this place, I create with joy.
- Every act of love, no matter how small, contributes to a more connected world.
Love is not something we find; it’s something we cultivate within ourselves. By letting go of fear and embracing our true nature, we unlock an infinite wellspring of creativity and connection.
– pierre –
Today’s LIVE meditation is: Sharing love.
(image credit: Calvin Seibert https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2016/11/new-modernist-sandcastles-constructed-by-calvin-seibert/)