Thursday, September 12, 2013

In Love's Presence, I Am

I remember a colleague commenting how happy she was when finally her protege got promoted. She said when she received this honor many years earlier it was much less meaningful to her. I remember thinking then that I didn't really believe her. I knew how goal-oriented and driven she was, so this statement seemed completely out of line with everything she seemed to be about. Today, however, I have a hunch how this sentiment in her came about.  When you engage in something that you believe in, you at times have to take so many hurdles that by the time when it finally is at your finger-tips you just feel numb. So my colleague appreciated her own promotion only in hindsight but enjoyed it all the way when her protege made it.

You may be surprised to hear this but the state of "enlightenment" can be compared to this feeling. You realized that you are "enlightened" when you stop looking for the light, when you become part of a Force without consciously looking. That must be a frustrating response for anyone who wants to look for God, but unfortunately it is as it is. Yet, if you want to do something to be near God, there actually is a pointer all the religions have been giving us for millennia: look for love, find love and be love. Seek love in all places not just the niches you have come to appreciate. The more unexpected the encounter, the bigger the impact. When you find love know that I Am is part of it.  Behold the light that fills this room when two strangers have finally discovered that they are one.

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