...A Fragment of Life's Heart...

“Don’t prolong the past, don’t invite the future, don’t alter your innate wakefulness, don’t fear appearances, there’s nothing more than that.” (via Ram Dass) When we gather together with people for dinners, meetings, movies, games, music, etc., what creates the draw to gather?  Does this union feel like home, like family?  A family never known?  An intimacy and affection never known?  Probably.  So now I’ll notice this experience, this desire, that has often gotten muddle and mixed into an illusory desire for partnership, as if it’ll fill that need for connection, communion, community .  While intimate partnerships/committed relationships provide connection and a type of communion, the lack of space and individuality that often comes with relationships along with the increased responsibility and compromise with each other creates a much more complicated dynamic.  No wonder so many people wait to “marry/commit” or choose not to all together.  Th...

If love is simply an inside job, finding the pleased self, then why do we constantly seek it outside of us from others or give it to others in hopes of receiving it back?  If all this love is something inside me and of God then shouldn’t those we give our love to be deserving of it?  When love is given in order to receive it, then it is merely wasted and slung around in delusion.  Once we realize that the love we feel is our own love and connection to God & Self, then we might be careful and mindful of how we use and spend our energy.  When we realize that we are LOVE then we are able to give it freely, without need or attachment to outcome.  We no longer SEEK love in relationship but SHARE love with others because our love is limitless and unconditional because it is connected to the Source. Everyone is worthy of love, but some of us tend to give our “love” without thought and purpose or to people who want to use us or we use them for an unhealthy purpose...