Alaya Weekly Message, June 7, 2008
Love That Knows No Other
Written and transcribed by Terry Grant
This is the conclusion of a message I have transcribed and edited from a talk Ishvara gave on November 4, 2007. - TG.
Ishvara:
In this awareness there is much to do, but none of it can be done in the old ways. I implore you, I encourage you to give up the old ways of doing things, the old ways of seeing, and listen to what love says. Love says: “It is all right.” Love says, “There is a way.” Love says: “Love, and see what happens.” This is not the conditional love of consensus reality. This is the absolute love of the universe that is empowerment, that is the very core and source of all that you are, and it is up to you to embrace this love. It is up to you to love, and you begin with the most difficult person in the world to love: yourself. You may think, “I can love myself. I’m the best person I know.” But you really don’t love yourself. You are afraid and judgmental of yourself. You are resistant to yourself. You don’t approve of yourself. You want to be something else. You don’t like the way it is. Loving yourself is a most difficult thing.
Loving yourself means loving your pain, your suffering, your past, your present. Yet if you realize that love is simply unconditional acceptance of what is, that may make it a bit easier. It is not defeat to accept what is. When you totally accept what is, you would be amazed at the intelligence the cells bring into play. You would be amazed about how you are led to various processes and awarenesses, and perhaps you will find within those something which helps you. This awareness is not at all “anti-help.” Yet it does not involve seeking help from a belief or concept of the past. It involves embracing something new, something unique, something that is not the way of the world, something that may not seem logical.
Everything is subtle in the New Consciousness. The smallest amounts of energy affect the cells. Consequently, one’s thinking affects the cells: One’s fears, one’s beliefs, and one’s conditioning affect the cells. As long as you are resisting what is, that effect continues. When you surrender to what is you are allowing love to penetrate into the very depths of the cells. You are allowing love to flood your being with acceptance, self-acceptance and other-acceptance. It doesn’t mean that you are going to like or change everyone. It doesn’t mean a whole lot other than that your body will begin to benefit from it, and when your body benefits from it, others will benefit. It is not an experience that takes place in isolation. It is a shared experience. You realize you are designed to help each other in this process, to inspire, encourage, and support each other, to create a community of help, of care, of compassion, of love, of being, to create a life that you know and live from the core of your existence, from even the smallest awareness you hope for.
Disappointment with the world is natural, because you know the world could be so much different. But disappointment with yourself is not natural. You are not to be disappointed with yourself. You are to know within yourself that you are doing everything you can, that you are expanding, connecting, and achieving as much as you can in the moment. If you think you are failing, you experience the failure. If you think you “can’t,” then you can’t. This is not magical thinking. It is practical thinking. You see, you have before you conditions, beliefs, and concepts. These have shaped the body. They have affected your life. That is the way it is. There is no blame or fault, but you need to know about it. You need to realize that there is more to you than those things.
Some live their lives in a very restricted way. To have to deal with a condition, something they have inherited, something that was caused from the outside, is a problem for them. Yet the power of the human being is the ability to overcome whatever is put before you. Whatever appears to be an obstacle is not actually an obstacle but an opportunity for empowerment, for a greater realization, for hope. You need not close yourself to love, because it is the very Life force. When you think you are wrong, or feel guilty, or embrace separation or isolation, you are closing yourself to love. You need to be open to receiving.
It is funny, but the best way to be open to receiving is to be giving, to give love: I give you the opportunity to love me, because when you can love me, you will love yourself. When you can love me unconditionally, you will love yourself unconditionally. When you can share that love with others, you will experience transformation and healing. You will become more compassionate, patient and understanding, and then you will know the secret of Life. The secret of Life is simply: to be seen. All that human beings want is to be seen. All that you want is to be seen. Being seen is being recognized, and with recognition comes respect, allowing, and acceptance. You live in a world that is so fearful, so resistant to acknowledging others, so resistant to being love. There is fear that you will be overwhelmed, taken advantage of, or misused. The fear keeps you locked into a pit of despair and separation.
So stop doing things to make yourself better. Start doing things to acknowledge yourself where you are, with honesty and openness. I have seen over and over again that the moment a person admits where they are, where-they-are changes. It is quite magical. You don’t have to do something with it. You simply acknowledge it, and that acknowledgment somehow begins to transform the morphic field in which you have been trapped. It begins to let something else in, and then the body starts feeling something new, something different, something unique. It starts feeling hope, and hope is what everyone needs now, because consensus reality, this conditional world, has become hopeless. People are feeling powerless and helpless, but it need not be that way. You can embrace Life as it is and become empowered.
You can acknowledge the truth of your being, being open to your place in this existence, going beyond the systems and structures of the world, realizing that this awareness, this Space, has no boundary or border. This Space is everywhere, and thus it can help. It can support and encourage, because it is the Space of love: love that knows no other, love that has no outside or inside, love that is.
I come to you as love. I need you to love me so that I continue to love you. It cannot be one-sided. It is a continuous flow which opens the possibilities of your life. To love and to be loved is the same love: love without a boundary, love that is not taken, love that is. Embrace love as you embrace this Life. Find places of compassion and patience in your experience, and be real. What is real continues to exist, what is false will fall away as one surrenders all of it, moment by moment.
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