JANU: Loving, then, is the natural way of life, all of life. What do we mean by ‘loving,’ then? For it finds an infinite variety of expressions. There is the love between people, isolated in the form it takes between two, to subtly imply that one loves only one and not another, dedicated to the well-being and nurturing of a mate. The love of a community is different in their perception, for a nation or humanity, unique expressions of the universal love of life.
How does loving then become a way of life, a way of being, a way of perceiving, and a way of serving? Must it always be modified with the circumstance, the object of loving? Yes and no, our brother. Yes, in the sense of the nature of that needed in another or a circumstance or a condition. No, in the sense of oneness, connection.
Another form of love is that which accepts and cherishes love from another, and from life itself. This honors the giver and, when lovingly received, supports the love of self. Love is an exchange of the presence of life: its beauty, its infinite embrace, and its continuation. For when life continues, consciousness expands and becomes more inclusive, and from the infinitesimal to the infinite, to the collective of all life, new creation is inspired and life fulfills its destiny.
A loving consciousness communicates everywhere and every-when. The entire process of life is revealed in the reality of Now and is touched, connected with past, present, and future. So live and love in the moment, our brother, without evaluation of worth, for all life is of equal worth, is loved, and is love.
July 5, 2013
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