{"id":733,"date":"2015-02-26T04:05:20","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T04:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/healingandtransformation\/?p=733"},"modified":"2015-02-26T04:05:20","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T04:05:20","slug":"god-is-the-true-face-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/healingandtransformation\/2015\/02\/god-is-the-true-face-of-love.html","title":{"rendered":"God is the True Face of Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"lover\"<\/a>Love.<\/p>\n

Just one\u00a0word can change everything!<\/p>\n

Love. There\u2019s so much wrapped into this one four-letter word that seems to describe the whole world in its entirety, cosmically yet also closely, intimately and revealingly. Love has a raw, emotional angle, an appeal to the senses to be felt, experienced, danced with, infused.<\/p>\n

Just four letters that can change the world. One who has not loved will be ever poor in the world.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the allure of love is because it\u2019s way beyond definition\u2014boundless and inexhaustible compassion.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose who practice love have neither religion nor status.\u201d ~ Rumi<\/p>\n

Love is God, as God is Love.<\/p>\n

And love is within, just as God is within.<\/p>\n

We keep love as separate, but neither you, nor I are \u201cother\u201d\u2014we are as one. We keep love as \u201cother\u201d and this way we stay separate from each other, from God.<\/p>\n

It is our closeness to love, that reflects our proximity to God, to ourselves, to life itself.<\/p>\n

\u201cLove is the ultimate state of human behavior where compassion prevails and kindness rules.\u201d ~ Yogi Bhajan<\/p>\n

Valentine\u2019s Day is a reminder that we have a warped view of love, a romantic notion that deceives us.<\/p>\n

Love is in the darkness we hide from, in the nakedness we reject, in the ugliness that repulses us. Love is in the darkest part of our shadow self, that which we most pity about ourselves. We try to escape into the light, and search for only the pretty love we have defined for ourselves, the love we want, found in the light. Really, love is in the shadows too, love is in the vacuum, love is in oblivion too.<\/p>\n

In Buddhism, there is a concept of being nothing, of ceasing to exist. The ultimate in self-sacrifice. For what is the \u201cself\u201d\u2014is there even such a thing? We exist in comparison, we are whom and what we think we are. Our identity is largely a \u201ccreated\u201d entity, and mostly from the conditioning around us.<\/p>\n

What if we were nothing, no ego, no self, no false identity\u2014just the \u201cno thing\u201d that has no identity. Perhaps in nothingness, we come closer to Love itself, closer to understanding the depth of love.<\/p>\n

As human beings, we are always searching for love, always seeking our experience in the \u201cOther.\u201d Seeking something external that lies within. The easiest way to experience love, is to get out of the way of ourselves.<\/p>\n

If we are able to shed the layers of our self, the layers that exist around our heart protecting us from being hurt, the layers of identity that we believe sustain us\u2014if we face ourselves at our core\u2014the self we are most afraid of meeting, the secret fear that prevents us from truly living. Love is alive in nothing.<\/p>\n

Love can never be found when you search for it, it always exists, it always is. It never was. It never wasn\u2019t. It has no beginning or end. We find love, when we are willing to lose ourselves, to let go of our identity, our false ego.<\/p>\n

I am united in my love. I am nothing, yet love is everything.<\/p>\n

Love is limitless\u2014just four letters that go on forever\u2026<\/p>\n

What am I?<\/p>\n

I
\nam
\nBeginning
\nand
\nEnd
\nEternal
\nKnowingness
\nForever
\nLove<\/p>\n

Say ‘YES’\u00a0to love!<\/p>\n

Disclaimer:<\/p>\n

This is not selfish spirituality, egotistical showing off, or selling something. Imitation spirituality shows its power with its false prophets and ever more fancy book tours. Genuine spiritual experience can be glimpsed via these forces, yet love is the most convincing force, and cannot be commoditized, bought or sold.<\/p>\n

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\"daviey\"<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Are you ready to take the next step?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Work with me! Interested in being coached by\u00a0David<\/em>…<\/p>\n

I am looking for BOLD and INTREPID souls for whom NO is never ENOUGH,\u00a0for whom success is something beyond any material achievement (however WONDERFUL\u00a0they are), for whom spiritual growth is a priority and NECESSITY.<\/p>\n

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You are awesome as you are, and I love you!<\/em><\/p>\n

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David Arenson (Starlight)\u00a0– World Teacher, Transformational Healer and Speaker.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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