LOVE

LOVE……all of you talk about it incessantly and yet so few know what you are talking about. Your love is a very, very poor shadow of the real thing. The real thing is so glorious and so wonderful, and so huge and so deep, that you cannot even fathom it with your small minds and your sometimes smaller hearts. Your love is a love filled with dreams and expectations, fervent pleadings and desperate longings, selfish needs that must be fulfilled and blindness and deafness to the real knowledge of divine love. Your love is all about clinging and about obsessions and possessiveness. It sees nothing and thinks it understands all. How then can you understand what we talk of love? How then can you hope to find joy in any human relationship?

Your love only involves the physical mind and the physical heart and, in many, many cases even the physical soul is not present. Those who consider their love deep and long lasting, and make vows of ‘forever’ cannot look beyond the physical soul, and their love cannot transcend what their higher souls might put before them. They wish to hold the reins that pulls this carriage they call love. But the reins are in very inexperienced and unwise hands. And so the driver spurs the horses when what is needed is merely a slow, graceful walk. But the physical involvement of love cannot accept the slowness. It must dig the spurs deep into the sides of the horse and when the horse gallops madly and causes hurt and pain, then the very ready tears and the complaints against a harsh god and a hard destiny are always close at hand. Why can you all not admit that you have no training in this riding and in the controlling of this particular carriage, and give up the reins into the hands of an experienced rider? Can you not transcend your physicality for a short while to merely tell the Experienced One your desired destination, and then leave it to His wise and loving hands to move the carriage slow or fast as he desires? And can you not transcend your physicality enough to have the faith that if the destination is not reached, the Wise and Loving One knows the desired destination could have caused you harm? How convenient is your faith in this wise rider! In situations when it suits the purpose of some selfish desire, it is easy to give Him the reins. But in situations when you fear that what you desire may not be what is right for you, you snatch the reins and headlong spur the carriage to disaster. And you call this LOVE. How can it be love when there is no other recognition, but of an earthly desire that must be fulfilled? How can it be love when you fear its loss so much that there is an obsessive clinging?

Child, did you not experience all of this yourself? Did you not try to spur your love in a direction it could not have taken? Did you not obsessively cling on to a relationship that left alone, would have flowered and bloomed, but which you, by your stubbornness, forced us to enter into and set things right? And now that your lesson has been learnt, can you not again see the flowering of a love that is, this time round being guided by us, and which will come to a fulfillment it was always meant to come to, and not an end that you desired. Yes, child, you went through a physical and emotional pain that for you seemed a nightmare. Now when you see it, does it still seem as painful or does it now seem as the digging up of the hard, dry soil before the growing of a beautiful garden?

Remember, child when there is selfishness, when there is obsession, there is no love. When there is deep love, soul love, there is no need that must be fulfilled, no desire that must be met, no complaints that can be made, no deadlines that need to be met, no personal wishes that can cause regret and pain and grief. When such a love exists it is so deep and so wide that it must encompass all in its path. When two people think of only themselves and not of others, they are not lost in love, they are lost in the selfish fulfillment of what they very, very, short-sightedly call love. When love must have a physical release it is the most important evidence that that love has not transcended the physicality of that emotion at all. When love strives hard to reach its destination, you must then know that there is no destination to reach, because for a soul level true love, the destination is itself… it has nowhere else to go, as it is fulfilled by its very self. It needs nothing further. When love needs constant reminders it is only mouth deep. When love obsesses constantly about the person you claim to love, it is merely that, an obsession. Those of you, who are constantly in search of love and feel you have never found it, have not transcended your selves at all. First fight that battle; my children, and everything else will follow naturally. There will be no further seeking, no further losing, no further ‘further’.

Now children, examine all your relationships………with your spouses, your children, your parents, your friends, your loved ones, whoever and wherever they may be, and honestly answer this question “ Have I ever loved?” When there is a soul level it needs no physical translation, it hides not behind untruths and semi-truths, and it finds contentment in itself.

God bless you all and may you all experience the only experience there is…LOVE.