You are Love
By Gordon Randall
Even if you’re not aware of the fact, you are Love. Recently, I gave a speech at my Toastmasters club. The purpose of the speech was to inspire everyone to examine their aspirations, feelings, and beliefs. Believe me when I tell you I was concerned I might sound a bit preachy, for to inspire it is often necessary to challenge.
Let’s start with aspirations. Aspirations are defined as hopes, dreams, and desires. We form our aspirations through our culture, domestication and the agreements we make with ourselves and others. Our American culture suggests we should own our own home and raise a family, hopefully in peace and tranquility, and that we earn income sufficient enough to provide our wants and needs. Our domestication usually provides values and morals during our formative years. As adults, we find a partner and/or enter into marriage and make agreements. It is common to give power to our aspirations by setting goals, alone or collectively. We can actually see the results of our aspirations.
What about feelings? Feelings are usually identified as emotions such as love, hate, fear, envy, jealousy, passion, despair, happiness, prejudice, and anger. Feelings are experienced as a state of being, a response to thoughts or to situations. They are often learned. We have all been in situations when we didn’t know how to respond. It was most likely because we had not had that experience before. We give power (energy) to our feelings by acknowledging them, and whatever we focus on will increase. Otherwise, a thought comes and goes without effect. No energy, no power.
Beliefs, we all have them. We all want them, but what do we do with them? You most likely think your beliefs are an integral part of who you are. Though for many people, beliefs are not aligned with a person’s True Self or Higher Consciousness. For most folks, beliefs are simply a collection of old baggage handed down from family, school, religion, and society. They are the product of fear and insecurity resulting from the lack of self trust.
It is your decision to determine who you are and what you believe. I ask you to abandon the thoughts and the beliefs you cherish just for a moment and become absolutely naked to yourself. Leave the shores of familiarity and tradition. Surrender past experiences.
Can you trust yourself? Can you be open-minded, non-judgmental and non-opinionated? Are you willing to examine your true beliefs? Do you want to completely and honestly own your truth? Are you willing to examine your own anxieties, nostalgia, guilt, judgment, hatred, prejudice, arrogance, addition, victimhood, and shame? In order for you to have the realization, the awareness, the truth as it is, you must disencumber your mind. Here is an exercise to help you do that:
Close your eyes. Notice your breathing. Observe the space above, below and to the left and right of you. Notice the space inside yourself. Notice the space outside yourself. It is the same space. You are the observer, the witness. Breathe in the eternal infinite love itself, right now in the gentle silence.
Surrender to the still, quite place; to pure silence. You are LOVE!
Written by Gordon Randall, one of the staff writers of Write On! Creative Writing Services, for the November 2005 LightPlayer Newsletter. Gordon has 30 years experience in the medical field and uses his knowledge to assist people in writing on spiritual and health issues.
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