WEEKLY CONTEMPLATION: FALLING IN LOVE
This week during your daily meditation, contemplate the following:
"'Falling in love' is literally dropping from the mind into the heart."
Dear Friends,
What a beautiful way to look at this most amazing experience. Ultimately, is there anything in this life that we crave more than being touched and embraced by the magic and power of "True" love? I imagine that we could come up with a list of things that we might at times feel rival this state, but in the end the timeless, unbroken ecstasy that only unconditional love can sustain, will transcend all other possibilities.
We spend so much of our lives trying to find the "right" person, the perfect match, our "soul mate," our heart's desire, yet for most of us it continues to elude us, baffle us, frustrate us and turn our lives upside down.
I am reminded of a story about two lovers that had been separated for many years. Finally, after searching desperately for each other they connected, and with great anticipation and excitement, they planned a most romantic rendezvous.
On the day they finally came together, their eyes met at a distance. They moved slowly toward each other at first and then, with their heart's racing almost out of control, began running as fast as they could until they were in each other's arms, embracing ecstatically.
At first glance, it was an absolutely perfect expression of their love for each other. And on one level, it was. But a closer look reveals a fascinating insight. In that incredible moment, neither one was looking at the other. Their eyes were closed, tightly shut.
Their hearts were completely full. The love they were experiencing in that moment was amazingly rich and powerful, yet even the sight of the other became a colossal distraction. They had to completely evade their own senses and move beyond the mind in order to fully experience the love emanating from deep within each of them.
The love that we are looking for can never be found in an "other." We have been told this again and again by the great Masters:
"The best thing I can do for you is to love me."
"The Kingdom of God is within you."
"To thine own Self be true."
"The greatest love of all I found within myself."
Love can only be found in the recesses of our own heart. An other person, or even a powerful event or circumstance can trigger that love, support our search, even lead us right to the door, but the ultimate experience of love can only be claimed by going within. In fact, as the story shows so clearly, we even have to move beyond even the thought of an other to truly experience unconditional love--the only love that exists.
In the end, as the mind gets quiet, we begin to fall. When the mind is totally still, we fall into the heart--we "fall in love."
Love and Blessings,
Alan
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What a beautiful way to look at this most amazing experience. Ultimately, is there anything in this life that we crave more than being touched and embraced by the magic and power of "True" love? I imagine that we could come up with a list of things that we might at times feel rival this state, but in the end the timeless, unbroken ecstasy that only unconditional love can sustain, will transcend all other possibilities.
We spend so much of our lives trying to find the "right" person, the perfect match, our "soul mate," our heart's desire, yet for most of us it continues to elude us, baffle us, frustrate us and turn our lives upside down.
I am reminded of a story about two lovers that had been separated for many years. Finally, after searching desperately for each other they connected, and with great anticipation and excitement, they planned a most romantic rendezvous.
On the day they finally came together, their eyes met at a distance. They moved slowly toward each other at first and then, with their heart's racing almost out of control, began running as fast as they could until they were in each other's arms, embracing ecstatically.
At first glance, it was an absolutely perfect expression of their love for each other. And on one level, it was. But a closer look reveals a fascinating insight. In that incredible moment, neither one was looking at the other. Their eyes were closed, tightly shut.
Their hearts were completely full. The love they were experiencing in that moment was amazingly rich and powerful, yet even the sight of the other became a colossal distraction. They had to completely evade their own senses and move beyond the mind in order to fully experience the love emanating from deep within each of them.
The love that we are looking for can never be found in an "other." We have been told this again and again by the great Masters:
"The best thing I can do for you is to love me."
"The Kingdom of God is within you."
"To thine own Self be true."
"The greatest love of all I found within myself."
Love can only be found in the recesses of our own heart. An other person, or even a powerful event or circumstance can trigger that love, support our search, even lead us right to the door, but the ultimate experience of love can only be claimed by going within. In fact, as the story shows so clearly, we even have to move beyond even the thought of an other to truly experience unconditional love--the only love that exists.
In the end, as the mind gets quiet, we begin to fall. When the mind is totally still, we fall into the heart--we "fall in love."
Love and Blessings,
Alan
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