I am here for my purpose. I’m not here to make people comfortable or to be liked. My purpose is to know and experience love. This means excavating the unsaid. In the world and in me.
Brene Brown
I write because I am a writer. My purpose as a writer, speaker, lightworker and guide is to bring words that may help others to see, know and experience Love.
The truest sentence I can ever write is: There is only Love.
Even with all the many ways I get pulled away and brought back to love, writing about love is my passion. I write to share my journey in hopes that others might find support in coming to rest with their own emotional struggles.
I am not talking about the love between sexual partners, although that can be an intimate expression of Love. I am talking about embracing our Divine nature and integrating it with our Humanity. To know the Divine is to know who we are as humans and what our true purpose is.
There is only Love. Everything else is our turning away from love, which is the original transgression. Somewhere along the line we were told that we had to do special things, be certain people from a certain tribe or belief system or social hierarchy in order to be considered okay, good enough. But the truth is, we are all children of the Divine, and our task here is to embrace this truth and integrate our Divinity with our Humanity. This integration is much, much easier than you think.
No Magic; Nothing New
Our purpose is to love and be loved.
Meggan Watterson
There’s no magic here, and yet coming to deeply know Love is incredibly magical. Until you’ve embraced this truth, it may seem mysterious. You don’t have to move to India and sit in an Ashram meditating for days on end. There is no special diet or yogic routine to do to qualify. Love is a state of being that is here and always accessible to everyone at all times because it is our True Nature.
There’s nothing new here–teachers and sages have spoken these words for eons. Yet so many of us wait for love to find us. Jesus’s message was that of Love. If he had a commandment it would be to Love yourself, and absolutely everyone and everything unconditionally.
Our only purpose here as humans is to experience this intense Love.
I am passionate about the teachings I’ve gleaned from various teachers such as Ram Dass, Neelam, Ramana Marharshi, H. W. L. Poonja (Papaji) and several others. My desire is always to put the teachings into words that are easy to assimilate and put into practice by anyone.
And I do this through writing about my one true passion that feeds my soul: Love.
There Is Nothing To Fear
It is our light, not our darkness that frightens us most. You are a child of god. Your playing small does not serve the world.
Marianne Williamson
Waking up consciously doesn’t mean that life’s challenges vanish. It means that we strengthen our innate ability to meet those challenges and eventually put them to rest. It means we know that we are the Light.
The first time I had this kind of awakening experience was as a participant at the end of a five day spiritual retreat with Neelam in western Colorado many years ago. I so badly wanted a life free from suffering.
I learned that suffering is simply being here but wishing I was there. Suffering is my resistance to what is going on, struggling against how I am feeling in the moment.
Towards the end of the retreat I had a break-open moment that literally knocked me off my feet. After our lunch break, we did a circle dance and chant. Someone played soft music, some sang the words, tears flowed easily as will happen when the room is filled with so much love, acceptance and tenderness. As we ended the circle session, I sat down, readying myself for the afternoon meditation and Satsang. Neelam spoke soft true words of the sweetness of being fully present in the moment. She spoke of owning and expressing our feelings and emotions.
As if a giant wave knocked me off my feet, I began to cry, not from fear or anger, but from some deep all consuming knowing that I was indeed one with everyone and everything. From my heart, I knew there was nothing to fear.
I struggle a little here to put what happened into words which truly express the intensity of that experience. I laid down gently, vulnerably, and trusting while others simply sat with me, holding sacred space and allowing me to simply feel. I felt so much joy that I could barely contain myself. I felt cradled and loved, not just from the others in attendance but from someplace deep inside of me.
In those moments, my whole being awoke and I embraced my true Divine nature. I surrendered to Love.
It’s important to note here that this awakening was not the end of painful life events–I’ve suffered great losses and deep grief over the years since this retreat. But it provided a strong foundation to meet and embrace life on life’s terms. To this day, the abiding Love and acceptance I embodied that afternoon serves me and those I touch with my words.
It is from my heart that I share these teachings with you.
True emotional freedom means we are no longer slaves to our past. It is not only obtainable in our lifetime, it is our birthright.
What is your truest sentence?
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This post was inspired by Meggan Watterson’s sermon: The Truest Sentence.