Do You Know What Love Is? I Can Show You
This is a song from Foreigner I used to listen to as a teenager. We would all be at the pub with a few drinks and lots of dancing. In truth everyone was searching for what love is.
For myself love has many complexions, it is the love of family members, it is the love of friends, of children and of nature. I have to bring in clowning here as I have fallen in love with every face I’ve met. I have really looked deeply into the eyes of strangers and said ‘I love you’. I did that in India with HIV patients, orphans, those mentally ill and really felt it. I rolled on the concrete with those in a hospital without facilities and played, it was love in action and it was awesome. Love was purely in the moment and I gave all I could. Every day I work on love in my ordinary life to see the extraordinary in every face, believe me that is the real world. There are no ordinary people. They are unique and amazing.
In romantic terms I have fallen deeply in love where nothing else exists but my lover and have given my heart and soul. When you fall in love you know god exists. I recall with My former husband looking into his eyes and feeling we were one and had known each other before. I have awakened spiritually realising that I am the source of that love. What I discovered was that through a thought or feeling, love came from me not the other. I was the one feeling the love. So I am the source of it. I realised that love is unity, it is joining and it is natural. If you have ever made love and I am not speaking about sex, those of you have will know what I am talking about, realise the true love in humanity as an expression of union with all that is. I saw love as the source of not only life on this planet but beyond.
I remember writing a poem about love, it was called ‘Only Love is Real’. I sent it to a man I was in love with but he didn’t feel it for me. Yet I am sure he was intrigued and moved at the time.
So here is a wonderful song by Foreigner one of my favourite bands. Note this song is about love and reconciliation, I really love that, if only we could get warring parties to understand the depth of this and resolve conflicts so we can all live together as one. After the video I’ve posted my poem ‘Only Love is Real’.
When you love unconditionally your life changes forever. You can never hate anyone, you see you have been like that, you realise they are you. It is a sense of life is as it should be and I am not the mover of life, it moves all of us. Life is the ocean of love that is fearless and infinite.
One last philosophical point. The love you withhold is the pain you carry. Always remember this, it is the truth. I have it from a very high source.
ONLY LOVE IS REAL
Love is not a word,
Agape is not a gap,
Love is not an answer,
Nor is it a question,
For it is unquestioned
When it is known,
Yet it always leaves a mark.
It lives in all subtle relationships,
It flowers in the summer sun,
And rains in droplets of chariots,
Crystal tears of gratitude,
Energy in motion,
For this is the e-motion
Of Gaia.
Love is an expanse
That has no horizon,
For Orion is light years away,
Yet the light twinkles as if
a memory of the universe is winking,
Reminding us of our mortality,
Yet love is immortal,
It is a portal to greater truth.
I have been gifted
for it is this shiny diamond that I carry,
The shine comes from within,
For no matter the exterior,
No matter how coarse or hard,
The diamond glitters for each is a star,
In the horizon of my dreams,
Reminding me of vitality,
Optimism is the precipice of hope,
For always it is living in my vision,
As I close my eyes in stormy weather,
I can still see the halo,
Over the crest of the rainbow,
Which is always a symbol
For new beginnings are seeking me.
For the gold is in the alchemy,
Transformation is in philosophy,
For one cannot buy happiness,
And there are no walls in truth,
For no-one is ever excluded,
Only love is denied natural expression.
This is the greatest desert,
The mirage of lovers come and go,
Yet love is the angel that never leaves,
Love endures all things,
Love forgives everything,
Love loses,
Let’s go,
Compromises,
Lives simply,
So another can simply live.
For there is no greater wealth,
Or feeling of satisfaction,
That fulfils the aching heart,
Then the eyes of love,
That sees no evil,
Speaks no evil,
Hears not evil,
For the mirror image of evil … live
in the eyes of innocence,
Yet when one looks to see,
Into this reflection,
Love is looking back,
For in your eyes I see myself,
And in my eyes I see you,
For when I love myself,
I love you,
And when you love yourself,
You love me,
As I looked up into your eyes,
Nothing existed,
Only love is real.
There is no rock to carve your name,
There is no life line to pull me in,
For the sea is an ocean of possibility,
And I am not drowning I am free,
For love is never in doubt,
There is never a drought,
Love is infinite gratitude,
It is wild and free,
For unconditional love,
Needs nothing,
It only gives,
Sustain-ability.
Imagine a world built on this foundation,
This is the philosopher’s stone
from which I carve,
‘I think therefore I am’ is stone,
‘I feel therefore I see’ is wind,
One never moves,
Emotion is the ocean of perpetual motion.
Therefore: the wise ones ask…
The stone age or wind power?
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