“The snow goose need Not bathe to make its self white Neither need you do anything to be yourself.”Lao-Tse
In Corrogue it is snowing and I am sending valentines.
I remember that tomorrow is St. Valentines Day. It is a day when we are encouraged to remember Love. Some may think this day has become yet another day of commercial exploitation. Another day when one is pressured to act in ways one resists.
Yet I am reminded of
essence of such a day. It reminds me of beautiful line from one of my favourite poems. This is from poem by Max Ehrmann. This is beautiful poem entitled “Desiderata” (things to be desired).
“Neither be cynical about love, for in an uncertain world it is as perennial as grass.”
To all my subscribers and friends of this ezine I say, “Happy St. Valentines Day.” I say to you all, “I love you.” I remind you that beyond all wounding that you have received and given in name of love you are Blessed beyond measure. I remind you that rather than “be loving” you “are LOVE.” You are beauty. You are essence.
On this day when there may be an absence of love in your life know that you are enough now and forever. Know that deeper you go to meet your soul less ups and downs of love have power to disturb you. This is because you become your own “soul friend.” You become your own “Anam Cara.”
You become as magic cauldron of Irish God Dagda. This cauldron feeds you forever and is never empty. This is nature of love. You have to return to trust that you are enough and that you are this. You claim your real power. You claim real power of you ability “to be love.”
We go looking in world for that special love that will make us happier and more fulfilled. We forget we have a lover waiting for us for eternity. This Lover is calling to us moment to moment. We have a lover that wants eternally to embrace us in ways beyond belief. One glance from this Lover and you will never forget. You will be hooked. You will not go searching in world of other and world of visible for a love that is transient.
On this St.Valentines Day be kind to your heart. If you feel lonely then know that you are not alone. You can never be alone although this feeling of loneliness feels so real. Let tomorrow be an opportunity to embrace your own beauty. Let tomorrow be a reminder that now is forever opportunity to enter experience of beautiful.
Often we do not love ourselves very much. We all have an inner child that we keep hidden away. We and it have become cynical about love. Cynicism arises from woundedness. There isn’t anyone in world who has not been wounded by love.
I often take this inner child out to be with it on these special days of remembrance of love. This is an angry child but he is still child of this heart. I take him in my imagination to a sanctuary. This is a place I call Quan Yin beach. Quan Yin is a Goddess of Compassion. It is on shore of eternity. On this shore that is ocean of compassion I let him play. I let him be.
I am a great advocate of self love. I am an advocate of being kind, being caring, being appreciative of this “little me.” If I do not express kindness to this self then I cannot be kindness to others. I can only love my neighbour because I love this little me” and “mine.”
When you do this enough you begin to “be loving.” You begin to be perfume of love. You transcend idea that love is something you do or give. You come to realisation you are love. When you know this blessing is here. You have arrived at your true power. You have arrived knowing that love is not something you get. It is something you either allow or do not allow. It is free flow of your essential self. You either block or you do not block.
On this day do not compare or contrast.
Do not think that this person has more or less love than you. This is not a competition. It is not a kindness. No one has walked in your shoes. You are unique. You are as Marianne Williamson reminds us in her wonderful book, “Return to Love,”
