Week 2 Article: Love is a State of Being

I honor the light in all of us. The more I love God, the more I love the forms of God, which
are all forms. Living from the soul is very much a heart-center journey. I get on a bus, and
by the time I get off, I feel like I have met intimately family members I’ve known all my life.
We’re all in love with one another.

To live in your spiritual heart with the degree of openness it entails, trust in the One. In
that loving awareness, you are not as vulnerable as you would be in the ego, where you
think you are separate from others.

How did the rose ever open its heart

And give to this world all of its beauty?
It felt the encouragement of light against its being,
Otherwise we all remain too frightened.
– Hafiz

How does one become loving awareness? If I change my identification from the ego to the
soul, then as I look at people, they all appear like souls to me. I change from my head, the
thought of who I am, to my spiritual heart, which is a different sort of awareness – feeling
directly, intuiting, loving awareness. It’s changing from a worldly outer identification to a
spiritual inner identification. Concentrate on your spiritual heart, right in the middle of your
chest. Keep repeating the phrase, “I am loving awareness. I am loving awareness. I am
loving awareness.”

The object of our love is love itself. It is the inner light in everyone and everything. Love is
a state of being.

You begin to love people because they just are. You see the mystery of the Divine in form.
When you live in love, you see love everywhere you look. You are literally in love with
everyone you look at.

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When you and I rest together in loving awareness, we swim together in the ocean of love.
Remember, it’s always right here. Enter into the flow of love with a quiet mind and see all
things with love as part of yourself.

– Ram Dass