Love in action

What does it mean to love? What does it mean to live and embody and act as love? It simply means to stop turning away. Inner transformation happens from the ability to witness ones feelings and thoughts without an agenda. The witness is consciousness, and it's nature is love. SatChitAnanda...(Sat - one energy everywhere, making up everything, past, present, future, Chit - the one energy has consciousness, and is aware of itself being  everything, Ananda - knowing itself to be everything and therefore free from seeking, the energy is happy, peaceful and blissful.) Through witnessing oneself, and learning to rest in that witnessing, you bring loving presence to whatever has been hidden away inside you, and that presence ( or consciousness) is, in itself, healing and curative. You become your own best friend, or rather, you learn to trust and have faith in that friend which has always been silent and loving within you, yet which you have not turned to before. Unconditionally and consciously being with oneself is an extraordinary act of self-love, as you stop running from what you are, moment by moment, and you start to embrace what you are, moment by moment. Love is not an ideal; love is closer to an active, welcoming embrace of what is happening right now, right here. The funny thing is, that when I bring presence to the so-called ‘difficult feelings', and don't feed them or try and make them go away, when I allow them to be there, then that is when they start to disappear.

What about loving other people? When we are able to be stabilized in being within ourselves, and not turn away from anything that arises within us, and not wish for what is arising to be anything else, when we live the intention to be deeply okay with ourselves and our perfection in whatever form we are arising, then we are ready to finally bring love to another. When we can hold another in our presence, without wishing them to be any different to what they are; when we can stay unconditionally present to another's pain or difficulty, or to their happiness and joy, feeling what they feel as though it were our own, then that is love to another. It's the bringing of consciousness to another, where perhaps they cannot bring consciousness to themselves. The holding of that space is healing, curative and loving.