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When you don't love, it hurts...

I'm inspired for my posts to respond to quotes from Byron Katie's book "Question your thinking, change the world."

Here's today's:

When you don't love the other person, it hurts, because love is your very self. And you can't make yourself do it! You can't make yourself love someone. But when you come to love yourself, you automatically love the other person. You can't not. Just as you can't make yourself love us, you can't make yourself not love us. It's all your projection.

What I get from this quote is that I haven't known LOVE according to it's highest, purest form. I've known attachment and entanglement. 

When I ask myself the question, "How can I get to a point where I know myself AS LOVE?", I think: meditate. It's brilliant because I can sense this is where the intellect meets a wall. You can't think your way to knowing yourself as LOVE. In my awareness, this must be experienced and felt. 

My teacher, Jennifer Hadley has encouraged us to use affirmations like:

I AM the purity of LOVE.

I AM LOVE in physical form.

When I was in one of my biggest challenges, Jennifer told me to use the affirmation, "I AM the purity of LOVE." It didn't feel like a solution, yet I know she was encouraging me to rise above the battlefield of daily life and consider that I AM the LOVE I seek. I AM the LOVE I am longing to experience. 

If I were the leader of the free world, we would have classes around "Knowing yourself as LOVE" from a very small age. It would be "Who are you really 101" and "You are ONE with the UNIVERSE." And immediately I am reminded that life's journey is about reprogramming ourselves. If were were programmed perfectly, we would have no victory to claim.

From the quote I get that when I know my true essence as LOVE: harmony, compassion, kindness, purity, innocence, then I can no another as the same. When I hold in my mind that LOVE is me, I can project that energy.

I am reminded of the Rumi quote, "Don't seek for LOVE. Seek to find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it." 

Join me in knowing US as LOVE. Join me in seeing the other as the same LOVE. Let's see clearly together!!! 

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  1. UnknownApril 11, 2017 at 7:14 AM

    I have just read through all of your blogs and I THANK YOU for sharing. Beautiful words and insight, can not wait to read more. <3

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    1. 100%willingApril 11, 2017 at 8:47 AM

      My pleasure!!! My healing is your healing. Your healing is mine!

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