If love is the universal glue that
holds all of creation together and unites us to All That Is, then fear is that
substance which dissolves all connections and separates us into factions,
severing the very ties of life that seek to heal and sustain us. In a world filled with fear, love is needed
more than ever before. This is the not
the red heart Valentine kind of love.
This is the Mother Teresa, Jesus, and Buddha, love. A kind of love that gives from the heart for
the uplifting of humanity. A kind of
love that is willing to get dirt under the fingernails and can give until it is
felt.
A gratuitous love will never
accomplish what needs to be done. What the world is hungering and thirsting
for is a love that goes to
the bone, which cuts straight to the heart of things and holds nothing in
reserve. We need to love as if our lives
depended upon it, for indeed, our lives do depend upon it.
We are currently on a path of
self-destruction. Our politics, our
policies, and too often, our personal practices involve knee-jerk reactions of
fear. We inadvertently allow ourselves
to be put into camps of them and us.
Right wing, left wing, Democrats, Republicans, male, female, white,
black. The list is long and we can
become alienated from our neighbor before we are conscious of what has
happened.
An open heart is one of the greatest
treasures in the Universe. To have an open
heart is to see each aspect of creation as sacred. When we look at the other, we see another
aspect of ourselves. However distanced
or remote another may look to us, if we search deeply enough, we will see that
at the core lies the essential threads of humanity, linking us to our original
origins, for truly, we have all come from the same creative hand.
All of nature, in fact, is related to
us and we are a part of it. The Sacred
Web of Life connects us all. We are a
beautiful, complex eco-system of life and together we rise or fall.
More than ever, we need
the courage, the fearlessness, the daring to love. To set aside fear is the key to moving us
forward in our evolution. We simply must
learn to ‘say no’ to fear. We need to
see propaganda and fear mongering for what it is—an attempt to create
separation and to assert control over us.
The only antidote I know of to fear is love, in copious, outrageous
amounts—and the best place to start is with me. For as the Great Master once said, “You are
to love your neighbor as yourself.”
Sounds like a pretty good place to start in order to love one another.
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