True love does not just choose one person. When true love is there, you shine like a lamp. You don’t just shine on one person in the room. That light you emit is for everyone in the room. If you really have love in you, everyone around you will profit – not only humans, but animals, plants, and minerals. Love, true love is that.
THICH NHAT HANH
Have you experienced true love?
Love is, in and of itself, such a broad, sweeping emotion, calculated and quantified by so many feelings, energies, and perspectives.
When we are navigating our way through life, we are continuously trying to search for the qualities that make life truly worth living. At the top of that hierarchy must unequivocally be love.
We express our love in countless ways, and we feel our love for so many things as to make the definition of what the word love means so overshadowed with nuance, context and differing perspective as to make this discussion too abstract.
Love is inevitably one of the things that ultimately creates our having felt complete for having walked the planet. Love must reign supreme in the sense that each of the qualities that makes love so important to us, rise top of our importance by virtue of our passion for them. When we love, we are in part, sharing a component of our heart, and our overall emotions with others.
In this sharing process we are able to learn to a certain extent more about ourselves by virtue of how our respective emotions trigger from various stimuli.
As we grow to understand that our love goes beyond family members or animals or people to whom we are attracted and extends into friends and special interests and certain forms of art, music, media, locations, experiences and countless other topics we recognize that our love is considerably more than just a swell of emotion triggered by a stimuli that gives us cause or reason to feel the way that we do.
In our ability to love, we are catapulted headfirst into a higher state of being in which we come to terms with how and why these emotions are triggered within us.
If you have loved and then lost something or someone, the pain and ramifications of going through such a process is impossible for others to fully appreciate, even if they have experienced something similar.
Having gone through these experiences leaves us more cautious about being willing to invest our love the next time, but when the love is genuine, it almost is inescapable for the power of the emotion is so formidable that very little can stand in its way.
We are loving beings, walking the planet, seeking similar and continuously, hoping and expecting that our lives will remain constantly alive and vibrant through our ability to feel these emotions and share them with others.
So when you walk into a room and you are feeling that degree of love within you, allow that energy to emit freely, and enable others to harness some of that energy for their own benefit.
Happy Wednesday!
Brian Weiner 