How can you find Love? The answer to this question is so simple, and yet, not easy. Sure, we sometimes find ourselves stumbling upon Love by accident. And yet, when we have the intention of finding Love, it often fails to show up. Why is that?
I think it helps to start with a more fundamental question: What is Love? The answer to this question is a Mystery, pure and simple, and yet, we can always recognize Love when we see it, right? Or can we? I’m going to make an assertion that seems to contradict conventional thinking about Love. Here it is: Love is always present. In fact, Love is Presence itself. Love is Experience. The failure to find Love is the failure to experience what Is. This is so simple it is beyond the simplest simplicity you can imagine. In fact, you can’t imagine Love, because Love does not dwell in the Mind. Love dwells beyond all thinking.
Why is it then that we don’t always perceive Love as it Is? The answer to this question is equally simple, and yet not so easy to realize. The perception of Love comes through simple and pure Acceptance. What is Acceptance? It is easier to say what it is not. It is not trying, or grasping, or intending. It is not thinking about something. It is not avoiding. It is not assessing, judging, or evaluating. It is not waiting for change. It is not wanting. In fact, Acceptance is not anything, other than Being. It is what Is, nothing more or less.
Searching for Love is like walking in order to find your feet. What do I mean by this? A phrase I sometimes read or hear is “finding the One”. So many people think that if they just find that one person who will make them whole, then Love will always be present. Searching for “the One” is panning for fool’s gold. Even if you find “the One”, the experience will not be different than what you are feeling right now. You don’t realize that you are The One. I am The One. The One is Everywhere and Everything. Open your eyes and let yourself See. Open your Heart and let yourself Feel. Love is Right Now.
Can you Love yourself? Yes, you already do. Can you accept that life will always be exactly as it is Right Now? Because it is always exactly as it Is Right Now. There is no future or past. There is only Now. Even change is an illusion. When you realize this you know that Love is within you, Right Here, Right Now. Is there anything about you or anyone else that is deficient, unworthy or lacking, Right Now? Deficiency does not exist in the present. It is a construct of the Mind, a product of thinking about the past and the future.
Do you want to be Connected? You already are connected to everyone and everything. Every bit of beauty that you can perceive is You. Colors, flowers, the ocean, poetry, a newborn child, a sunny afternoon, a violent storm, life, death, it is all You.
The path to Love is not through the Mind. In fact, there is no path to Love. Love already and always Is. Stop grasping and Love is revealed. You can Know yourself as Love. The key to unlock the Heart and open yourself to Love is Acceptance. To get what you want … want what you get.
Love is Duality seen through the eyes of the One, the Nondual. Connection with Other. A seeming contradiction, beautifully wrapped in the Mystery of the Universe. Let go of everything and let yourself fall into the infinite depths of her Heart.
When you Realize what I am saying here, then you Know … that I Love You.
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