Love Is

When two people are truly present to each other, love naturally arises. It doe snot matter whether they have been life long friends or have just met. Love is also not primarily a feeling -- although various feelings may very well in its presence. Love is something that cannot be won or lost, because it is always available -- but only to the degree that we are present and therefore receptive to it.

We cannot will ourselves to love ourselves or to love others. All we can do, paradoxically, is to recognize the presence of love in ourselves and others. As we have seen, our Essential nature is an outpouring of love -- the only problem is that it is blocked by the habits and false beliefs of our personality. What is in our power is to become aware of those blockages so that our essentially loving nature can once again make itself felt and have a healing effect in our lives. The love that we experience under these conditions is real and deep and quiet. It does not draw attention to itself. it is not demanding, nor does it keep accounts. it lasts because it does not depend on the changing conditions of personality. It is full of joy because nothing can disappoint or frustrate it. Real love in action is unstoppable.

Our desperate search ends when we recognize that we not only have love and value, at the level of our souls, we are love and value.