Love Really is All You Need
We live in a world of magic. Thoughts turn into matter, infinity unfolds as space and eternity flows into time while you read these words.
When I was a child I could ‘see’ this enchanted ‘machinery’ behind the real world. I knew that the Universe and I were one and that the Universe was my partner in creation. All I had to do was ask and the Universe would provide. Unconditionally.
Since I chose to be born to parents who, due to their own emotionally scarce childhoods, didn’t know how to express genuine love, my inner conversations with the Universe were often about love: ‘What is love?’ I would ask myself. ‘Where does love come from?’ and ‘How can I get more of it?’
Sometimes, when meeting a friendly stray cat on the street or cuddling my teddy bear in bed, I could sense the funny paradox of love. You know, the one where ‘the more you give, the more you have’. But I also knew all too well, through emotionally painful experiences in my childhood home, that ‘you cannot give what you do not have.’
During my countless silent conversations with the Universe, I have come to understand that love is ONE with no equals. Nothing else in our reality has the same ‘properties’ as love. There is a peculiar difference between love and all negative, dark emotions such as fear, ignorance or hate. Not just the obvious difference, but a deeper, more profound one.
I have always been fascinated by a line of dialogue from the 1990 movie Ghost that I think describes the true nature of our source; but also describes why love is sacred and everything else is secondary. As Sam, one of the main characters, is passing away, his spirit turns to his beloved and says:
‘It’s amazing, Molly. The love inside, you take it with you.’
What he is saying in the moment of physical death is that all you truly own is your self. Everything else is borrowed in the reality of time and space. And since your core (your true identity) is unconditional love, then love is all you can ‘take with you’ when you return to your source.
In that sense: Love is all that is real and everything else is just a persistent illusion in time and space.
Let me put it another way: No infant knows how to hate. That is something we learn as we grow up.
Genuine love is unconditional, whereas negative emotions such as hate require specific conditions to exist. Hate must be preceded by an action or a thought. One thought follows another thought, creating the notion of time, which means that hate needs time to exist. And since hate is an excluding frequency – meaning it separates and ‘pushes’ things away – it also needs space. So, beyond the reality of time and space there is no ‘situation’ and no ‘room’ for hate to dwell in. In other words; hate is an earthbound thought-form, created by the human mind in time and space.
Love, on the other hand, is instant, all-embracing and all-inclusive. It doesn’t have to be preceded by anything. It simply is. Always available in the now. For the joy of being.
This is why love is the base ingredient in the fabric of the Universe holding everything ‘together’ with infinite precision and patience. This is also why, just like mathematics and geometry, love is the universal ‘language’ understood by all of us.
The saying goes that ‘love is blind’, but the way I see it, love isn’t blind: it just helps us ignore the illusion by focusing our perception on what is real. The way I see it, it’s simply a higher frequency transforming everything when we choose to ‘stand’ in that vibration.
Standing in the frequency of love not only transforms us from within, it transforms everything we focus our mind on from without. Nothing stays the same in the warm, compassionate light of love. Its ability to create an atmosphere where even the ‘darkness’ is included, allowed and transformed is truly miraculous. That is why saying ‘There’s noting to forgive” and ‘I love you’ feels like turning on the light in a room full of darkness.
When you are aligned to your source, meaning being who YOU truly are, no thought can be based in fear or hate because you know love from its purest form – your unconditionally loving, infinite self.
You have been granted free will to choose, so that you can say no to fear, no to ignorance and no to hate. In any given now-moment. This is a treasure. Cherish it because it gives you endless opportunities to miraculously transform the world you live in.
Choose love, and I promise you, the universe will hear and provide…
Unconditionally!
This essay was featured in the February 23rd edition of The Sunday Paper. The Sunday Paper inspires hearts and minds to rise above the noise. To get The Sunday Paper delivered to your inbox each Sunday morning for free, click here to subscribe.
