| "Love is not a feeling. It is a spiritual energy. Love | | | | Respect. Willingness. Trust. Trustworthiness. |
| is pure creative energy at its highest level. Love | | | | Sensitivity. Maturity. Grace. Inner power. Porous |
| expressed in human form actualizes your divine | | | | boundaries. Being present. Honor ? the ability to |
| self." - Barbara King | | | | honor that which is divine. Rapture - the ability to |
| Love is not a feeling. Love is a spiritual energy | | | | open oneself to all that which is truly beautiful. |
| field. | | | | Awareness, and awakeness ? being conscious of |
| So often in our culture we assume that love is a | | | | what is, in this present moment, now. The |
| feeling. That we either feel it or we don?t. That it | | | | willingness, and the inner power, to take |
| either exists ? it is present ? or it isn?t. Barbara | | | | appropriate action, thus not being fossilized in ? or |
| King?s words direct our awareness to the | | | | attached to ? the past. Surrender. The willingness |
| recognition that love is an energy field ? and as | | | | to be love ? to actually become it. This is a |
| such, it can be cultivated. | | | | process. A process which requires, at some |
| Love is an energy field in which we exist. It is a | | | | turning point, a decision, a commitment. A decision |
| state of being which we exist within. When we | | | | to align oneself with love. Discover how to spiral |
| step into it, it surrounds us, envelops us, shapes | | | | yourself upward ? consistently, into love ? rather |
| us, fills us. It nurtures us. | | | | than downward, out of your inner power, into the |
| When we assume that love is a feeling, we | | | | depression and apathy of the lower levels of |
| diminish it. Feelings come and go. | | | | consciousness ? the lower realms of emotion. |
| States of being ? energy fields ? ebb and waft | | | | These are just some of the Principles which |
| like clouds. And yet their substance is always | | | | support us each, as individuals, and together, as a |
| present. It is energy available for creation. | | | | community ? a culture ? to experience ? and to |
| When we assume that love is a feeling, we | | | | be ? in love. |
| relegate it to the realm of all feelings ? shame, | | | | In our culture we often assume that one is either |
| guilt, apathy, despair, longing, excitement, | | | | in love, or not in love. That we either feel love, or |
| contentment, fear, sorrow, sadness, anger, | | | | we don?t. |
| happiness, desire. | | | | Let's redefine what being ?in love? means. Rather |
| Love is more than this. | | | | than simply feeling a feeling, love to us means |
| When we imagine that feelings rise and fall ? | | | | living in an ongoing state of love. Yes, other |
| within us ? and that energy states arise and | | | | emotions do arise from time to time. And yet, |
| evolve around us ? we begin to recognize that | | | | with Practice, these are allowed to wash through. |
| love is something distinctly unique from feelings. | | | | They never linger. They never last. They are |
| When we learn how to contribute to the | | | | allowed ? and encouraged and supported ? to |
| well-being of the state of love, we are sustained | | | | arise and to fall. We witness them, with our |
| by it. We are fed by it. We are cared for by it. | | | | Observer Mind. And in so doing, we remain |
| We are loved by it. | | | | unattached. We Practice how not to feed them |
| Discover for yourself and emulate the Principles | | | | as a drama. And, as if miraculously, we discover |
| and Practices of love ? how to step into it, how | | | | that emotions ? feelings ? rise, fall, and disappear. |
| to stay in it, how to flow with it. | | | | Love is not the same. |
| When we misidentify love as a feeling, we have | | | | When we Practice the Principles which love invites |
| no responsibility to it. There is no commitment | | | | us to re-discover, love remains. It is a constant in |
| required to maintain it. It ? like most of the human | | | | which these other emotions rise, fall, and pass |
| created world we live in ? can easily be | | | | away. Love becomes the container in which all of |
| mistreated by us. We can take it for granted, | | | | life exists. |
| become angry when it ?leaves? us, and vow to | | | | Human communities, too, can be love. They can |
| never succumb to it again. | | | | be containers of love in which other experiences ? |
| This attitude completely shifts when we realize | | | | including interpersonal experiences ? rise, fall, and |
| what love is. It is a state of being, a vibration, | | | | pass away. |
| that we must learn to attune ourselves to. | | | | This concept could be a quantum shift for you in |
| This requires recognition of what love actually is, | | | | your life. |
| and discipline to attune ourselves to it. | | | | You can choose to ? or default unconsciously to ? |
| When we are not attuned to love, we fall out of | | | | living on the whims of love ?the emotion?. |
| love. | | | | Or you can commit to learn how to step into love |
| When we are attuned to love, it never leaves us. | | | | the energy field. |
| Because we never leave it. | | | | Find allies to support you on this journey. |
| What are some of the Principles which support us | | | | Together, discover how ... |
| to step into love ? and stay in it? Here are a few | | | | Carpe diem. Seize the day. Seize this opportunity |
| ? | | | | ? to open and to awaken ? to a new opportunity |
| Truthfulness. Honesty ? with oneself first. Honesty | | | | of how to live your life. |
| ripples from this place outward. Gentleness. | | | | |