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