Treatise on Love

Love is our birthright as human beings.  We originate from Divine love, live our lives in this Love, and return to Love.  Love created us, sustains us, and gathers us back to itself in all circumstances.  Yet we do not see this Love for what it is.

Over time we have been misled to believe that we have to earn, or attain love as if it is outside of us.  Love has been tangled with lust, and the ideas of attaining an object of love, of being worthy enough to be loved, and other such limiting beliefs have been propagated. The devil, or Hollywood, or sheer limitations of human consciousness have allowed the prevailing notions of love to be that it is something to attain.  Look more beautiful and you will receive love.  Earn more money and you will get the love of your object of desire. This is ironic, the idea that a being such as ourselves, created out of love, could need a nicer car, a better haircut, or a fancier house, in order to get love. 

Attaining love is one of the major pursuits of the human being.  Getting love from a significant other is one of the most essential elements in human striving.  Then there is also the desired love from family, children, coworkers, friends, etc. that is sought.  The act of procuring love is endless.  We give gifts, flattery… We try to change ourselves to suit others, so that they might give us this elusive Love.

And yet, WE ARE LOVE.  We come from a Father, a God who loves us so much.  He feeds us, clothes us, shelters us, created us, maintains us, and will bring us back to Him.  How is it that we miss the ever-present Love in our lives? 

Meditating on the true nature of our Creator as Divine Love and as ourselves as Beings of Love can help us return to the reality of Love in our lives.  Doing daily meditations for 15 minutes each day for 40 days, affirming the reality of Love in ourselves and our world can help to change our consciousness.  I challenge you to try it! 

Here is an example: God is overflowing, unconditional Love, the sweet ever-present affection of the Universe.  This all-embracing Source of Infinite Love is individualized as me- the Reality of me.

With Love!
Rahman