What Is Love?

What is love, anyway?  Love is within as well as without.  Love is everywhere.  Love is the only reason we exist, the only thing that is real.  It makes us giddy. It makes us crazy.  It makes us feel and understand deep truths, about ourselves, about the Universe.  It asks us to examine the fabric of existence, of time and space, of consciousness itself.  Love can expose our darkest fears and mirror back to us our divine magnificence.  Love holds all wisdom, all truth, all beauty, All That Is, in its' quivering bosom.  Love simply is.  When we attempt to dissect or logically examine love, it loses its' magic, changes its' form, like quicksilver or waves upon the shore.  Love can't be captured or held in a bottle to bring out at our whim.  Love is universal, unconditional, all-knowing, all-encompassing.  When another soul fails to accept our love and see their own magnificence in the reflection we offer them, it has nothing to do with us.  It has everything to do with them. Our own magnificent gift can't be dimmed because another refuses or is unable or unwilling to accept what is offered.  All we can do is continue to shine the light of love unconditionally in the hopes that one day they will be able to accept the gift and behold the ravishing beauty of their soul reflected back to them from our heart.  We may feel transitory pain or anguish.  We may begin with the dissection.  We may blame ourselves and wonder what went wrong.  That is the human within us that looks for logical, 3-D reasons that can't even begin to scratch the surface.  It won't work.  It can't.  Love can't be defined or sequestered.  It needs wings to fly, space to soar.  Sometimes it is just too much to ask of one who chooses to see the darkness instead of the light.  All we can do is honor the stage of their journey, hold them in the light, and love them unconditionally from afar.  Perhaps, one day, the light will penetrate their darkness, however slightly, and they will begin to open to their own divine soul which IS love.  We are greater and more blessed for offering our love to another, even if for now, it cannot touch them.  There is always tomorrow, which holds the promise of eternal, divine, all-consuming, unconditional love. I wish this for all of you!


Radiant Love to All!


Lori