Show Me The Meaning Of Love Written by : Reiki Sanctuary Date : Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Quote from Dalai Lama:


"If you only think of yourself, your mind gets smaller, narrower. Then even small problems seem big.


But if you think about others, your mind is larger, more vast. Then even big problems don't seem impossible."


I am a believer that love is all around us.  Love never eludes us.  Love never abandons us.  It has always been there, even in our darkest hours.  Even in our blackest hours.  Yes, and for argument sake - but please do know of my strong conviction and affirmation in the concept of Absolute Love - I must agree that Love can seem to elude amongst many of us. Nevertheless, love would always call to us all. 

Mahatma Gandhi said "Love never claims, it never gives.  Love ever suffers, never resents, never revenges itself".  Spoken from a great individual, Mother Teresa, she said "we have not come into the world to be a number, we have been created for a purpose, for great things: To love and be loved".

But why do many of us feel that we often live in loneliness and that we keep chasing after a rainbow that seems so far fetched?  Perhaps, it is the familiar that usually eludes us in life?  What is before our nose is what we see last?

The battle (let's just use this extreme word to describe our sense of loneliness) that so often we are fighting are shared by all of us.  I hear them often, from the young to the old.  From a tea conversation to online lamentation of a cry of sadness and disappointments.  Of the lack off and the absence of love in some individuals.

We often fool ourselves to think that it is uniquely our own.  We create a dominant thought to disgrace ourselves from not deserving to be loved.  From the psychological delusional bamboozled of falling in love and to love in return.

Then, there are people that will not stop finding love even if love hurts them so much.  Question is, if love hurts, and it is so painful, why do we still want it?  Why do we take the risk of a heartbreak after experiencing it over and over again?

For love to be Just Love, we need to expand the consciousness within us.  We need to have it planted into our sub-conscious mind.  For it to expand outside our thinking realm, into our awareness and actions.  To let the energetic vibrations to flow with the natural process of life.  We need to leave behind our expectations and not allowing them to interfere with this natural flow.

We need to manage our expectations.  We need to know that we are a seed of love.  We need to understand the psychology of love.  Falling in love is a magical experience that happens between people.  Love is an emotional bond between any individuals - like with parents, siblings, friends and partner.  We need to share our feelings and care and affection from someone so that we feel precious.  Love is psychologically and socially necessary for every individual.

Our primary motivation as human beings is to expand the self and to increase our abilities and our effectiveness.  There is no limit to love.  It is this wonder that we strive for it even more.  We have to constantly take chances, even after being rejected and losing that love when things do not work out.  The saddest thing to happen to life is when we can no longer take the risk, that we harden our heart to the caring of others and expect them to reject and hurt us.

Love never dies a natural death.  However, it dies from our neglect and abandonment.  It dies from our blindness and indifference and of being taken for granted.  Eventually, love dies of weariness and from not being nurtured.  It is said that the great tragedy of life is not that men perish but that they cease to love.

We should strive to live our lives to continue to seek love, and be Love.  We should not allow the energy of love to subside nor to let it dimmed our essence of life.  As long as we continue to love, some failure is bound to occur.

However, love itself has no failures.  To be unsuccessful is not the same as failure.  Our disappointment is more likely to provide us an opportunity to learn and to grow.  There is no failure except in us no longer trying.  The good thing is, we would always gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes.

I strongly believe that all of us often are in search of love, of what love is truly is.  Of its emotion that will lead us to happiness.  Of a spontenous feeling of inner peace, joy and contentment which is the result of introspection when we turn within and contact with the seed of love in our inner nature.

Unfortunately, there are some that choose to think rather dominantly that love and happiness often elude them.  The sociology of our life often makes us much a negative individual rather than to be positive.  When our desires are not fulfilled, we fault love.  We become unhappy.  We blame cirumstances but never ourselves.  Little do we want to accept our attitude, our consciousness.  It is always easy for us to feel disheartened.

The beauty with love is that it finds us.  It will always find us.  It is an inherent quality of the soul but we can only embrace it when we have a true perception of our soul nature.  We need to realize and recognize that our life is also governed with the Law of Cause and Effect, that in some ways, we are here on Mother Earth governed by our Karma.

While we are liquidating past debts, we are often sowing seeds for our future harvest too.  We should try to attain to the right perception of existing things by acquiring the right knowledge.  It is this knowledge that will bring us the solace and comfort.

Live and let live.  Live and Let God.  Love is the only essence of life and the light of our soul.  With love, we feel more alive.  Love brings enchantment, enthusiaism and that boost of energy to do something extra in life.  With love, every possibilities and every opportunites are open.  Of course, it does bring about the duality of life where fears and worries will come along too.


Love that never ends is Love.

.. and I love you ...