 From Jaraya
If
we have a view of love that has 'strings attached', then it is 'small
l' love and is, in fact, nothing to do with real Love. It is, rather,
just fear in some clever disguise. If someone says "I will
love you if...", they are attempting to control the situation
by threatening to withold that which is offered as love. Through
eons of programming, we easily fall for this trick and more often
than not, give in to the limiting situation that this threat offers.
But if we were to 'remember' what actual Love was, we would be as
bewildered by receiving such a threat as we would be in making it.
Love
simply is. It cannot be apportioned, or even denied. All we can
attempt to do is momentarily block its flow.
The
secret to understanding the difference is in attaining the realisation
that Love never has conditions and that "love" ALWAYS
has. Again, anything with conditions is fear... and fear is nothing
but the perceived lack of Love.
"Okay,"
I hear you say, "But why is it so difficult to live unconditional
Love?" This is because we have devised 'small l' love to distract
us from remembering our omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent state
that makes up the real us. More on this can be found in the articles:
"Atlantis - the Beginning of Separation"
, "The Flame of Consciousness"
and Omnisexuality - What is it?
For
many people, when they fall in love there is a brief period of time
when they are actually connected with the real thing. During this
usually unsustainable brevity, they reflect their true selves...
invincible, ecstatic, nothing is too much trouble, walking on air,
or just 'off with the pixies'. What is really happening is that
the person(s) they have fallen in love with are a perfect mirror
of themselves... reflecting their own divine perfection.
But
it seldom lasts. For some reason we find it too much to bear. In
our cellular programming is eons of stuff that is based on judgement
and polarity; stuff that wants us to feel small and imperfect, unworthy
of being loved, unworthy of Love... our origin. And so we invoke
one of the many sabotage routines to destroy the bliss.
Such
routines are modelled either on those used by our parents and observed
when we were tiny infants or brought with us from a previous lifetime
of the mastery of smallness, where they worked so efficiently to
bring about our downfall, that we couldn't bear to give them up.
In
bringing an end to our momentary state of bliss our small selves
are 'rewarded', of course. Victimhood, righteousness and blame are
the glittering prizes for our dedication to attaining this mastery
of smallness. These icons of separation have served us with such
brilliance since our first arrival on the planet, that we have actually
built religions around them. One thing is for certain, however,
they are not the tools of someone wishing to reclaim their spiritual
birthright.
So
what is our spiritual birthright? Well, it's the Knowledge that
we are Love itself. It's the Knowledge that Love is ALL there is...
and that everything else is, in fact, illusion co-created by us
to keep us from remembering our vastness.
Look
at it from the more familiar perspective. With 'small l' love as
some kind of achievement, how can we ever be in charge of our own
destiny as co-creator of All That Is. With conditions on everything...
with judgement as part of our experience... with duality as a distraction,
there can be no transcendence of the veils whilst we are here in
the physical.
Occasionally
one sees on a church noticeboard the words "God is Love".
It's true... "Love is God." And because the Creator (that
part of ourselves that we still refuse to re-cognise) is the same
as the Creation (that part of ourselves that we continue to judge),
we could just remove the common factor and just accept that "Love
Is". In the futility of our smallness, all we can attempt to
do is to deny that it is so.
But
Love is everywhere, it is everything. So the futile struggle to
try and prove that it is not so, will eventually destroy us... in
the physical sense, that is. But before we can Live the alternative,
we need to surrender some ancient programming... not just from our
minds, but from our cellular memory, where it is deeply and tenaciously
held.
Freeing
ourselves from separation is as good a place to start as any. Just
as we have separated astronomy from astrology, chemistry from alchemy
and physics from metaphysics, so too have we separated Love from
truth. It is, then, with deliberate intention that I offer a simple
machine of physics to demonstrate (metaphysically) what Love is.
Imagine a pendulum. We tend to see, from our perspective of separation,
that one extremity of the pendulum's swing represents what we judge
to be 'good' and that the other... its opposite, 'evil'. One pole
is thought to be God and the other Satan. One black and the other
white etc. etc. ad infinitum. Yet these are but aspects of something
that can only be complete in its wholeness.
Where,
then, is Love in the swing of the pendulum? It is at the state of
rest, of course. Love is not a *doing* thing, it is a state of *being*;
therefore it can only *be* when there is no struggle against it.
When the force of the All That Is comes into play in this model,
the pendulum cannot sustain its excursions into the dual forms of
illusion and comes to rest through surrender to the only universal
truth - Love. The line of least resistance is to just accept it...
to struggle against it is, in the scheme of things, nothing but
a momentary act of futility that has neither meaning nor existence.
Copyright
1997 Jaraya
From Selenna
We
are creatures of externalisation... so frightened of learning about
ourselves; but we are eager to judge and choose outcomes for our
neighbours. But when we look deeper into ourselves, we can only
find Love... and yet this is so vast a concept that it scares us;
so we jump quickly to a safe world of conditional 'love' that gives
us a good excuse not to explore further and discover the being that
we truly are. So often we choose through fear; yet we would indignantly
argue that it was a choice made through 'love'. But this is because
we have no idea what 'love' really is.
It
doesn't have to be an unattainable goal. When we 'follow our Heart'
we are simply listening to God within and allowing this to become
part of our existence in every moment. God is with us in every relationship
we experience, not just 'romantic' relationships. Every moment we
breathe upon this Earth plane, we can consciously express ourselves
as the aspect of God that we know ourselves to be. Each decision
can come from our conscious responsibility to express that vastness
of being.
When
we follow our Heart, we are allowing God to speak through us. It
may be that a decision results in a someone else being 'hurt'. We
simply cannot be responsible for another's feelings. If we are listening
well to our Heart we are 'being Love', a divine ambassador. We must
trust that it is in the other person's best interest to allow this
feeling of pain and so embrace the wholeness of who they are. We
are walking in the Light!
To
find our way to God, we need to go through our 'shadow', which is
our fear and our pain. When these feelings are triggered, we can
choose to appreciate the divinity in these moments because with
each acceptance of these feelings we are coming closer to complete
alignment with our God Self. If we can do this for ourselves, it
will make it easier to accept the experiences of others around us.
Most
of us who call ourselves Lightworkers are still finding that fear
rules our choices, though we try and convince ourselves that Love
is the guiding force. Is it really so? How often do we stop ourselves
feeling or thinking something for fear that someone will be hurt;
or that someone will not approve; or that it may not even be a 'Godly'
action. To judge, in any way, is to come from fear.
We
can only be responsible for the changes we bring to our own lives.
If we follow our Heart, we will allow the flow of more Love into
the planet. As a result, more people will feel the triggers within
their own beings to discover for themselves who they are and the
flow of Light will increase. We are not responsible for 'saving'
others. We cannot choose for others what is acceptable, or appropriate,
for them. If we do this, we are undermining their ability to express
their particular aspect of God as well as denying their personal
sovereignty to choose the reality that best suits their needs in
that moment.
We
accept easily that God is not 'evil'; but God is also not necessarily
about 'goodness'. God is the mid-point between the two... that encompasses
both. God is Love - the unconditional Love that Jesus taught by
action. Unconditional Love is simply that; allowing God to flow
as an energy in our lives UNCONDITIONALLY - without limiting the
expression of who we truly are. We are vast beings beyond all our
biggest perceptions. It is fear that limits us, and it is God that
sets us free to be LOVE. |
