On October 28th, 2009, I found this thought provoking article posted on: The Naked Soul (Blog).
“Is it possible for the rose to say, “I will give my fragrance to the good people who smell me, but I will withhold it from the bad?” Or is it possible for the lamp to say, “I will give my light to the good people in this room, but I will withhold it from the evil people”? Or can a tree say, “I’ll give my shade to the good people who rest under me, but I will withhold it from the bad”? These are images of what love is about” ~ Anthony de Mello
The above quote speaks great wisdom. Love does not discern between good or evil; love does not judge who is to be loved and who is to be hated. Love does not hold back its energy to punish another.
Our core essence is love, we are love, we are from source which is love. We do not need to learn how to be love for that is what we are, we simply must remember what we are, we must remember that we are love!
There come many opportunities in our life where we may gravitate to make a judgment of another and the result of that judgment may be to withhold our love or to dole it out in rations. There may even be times where we fear loving others fully and unconditionally because we may get hurt or our love may not be reciprocated. We may even fear loving another because in some perverse way we feel that the other person cannot handle our love or that our love may somehow make them feel bad about themselves. I suggest to you that pure love is never hurtful even if in the short run the other person seems in some way to be hurt or diminished by our love know that this is only a response of their ego and that your love will penetrate beyond the fragile ego and created healing and good.
Where in your life are you withholding the love that you are? Who and what in your life are you avoiding because you believe that your love will not be accepted for what it is?
Today I strive to be the tree and provide shade to all, be the lamp or the Sun and provide light and warmth to all and to be the rose and share my fragrance with all.
Who among us has not benefited from the unconditional giving of the tree, the lamp, the rose?
May we all to remember to be the love that we are!
Comments