Love Is Not an Emotion!

Recently I read of a courageous mother who fought to protect her children. As she was getting in the car, a man attempted to carjack her car. With a gun at her head, he had demanded she get out of the car. Because her children were in the car, she said NO! The man was surprised. Fear appeared to have no effect on this mother. 

A fight ensued and judging from his later mug shot, the intruder looked the worse for the encounter. I suspect the man felt safer in the custody of the police. For the mother, it was never an issue of being afraid or of giving up the car. Her children were her only concerned.

This reminded me of another news event that I heard took place in India a few years ago. A train had struck and killed a baby elephant. The mother elephant then proceeded to derailed and demolished the engine of the train. It was later determined that the engine could not be repaired.

For me, both of these stories reflect an outward expression of an inner truth. That love is the most essential universal law on earth. We are growing and maturing and now on the verge of discovering that our essential nature is in reality the celebration of love. Life is love and love is life and we will not be separated from either.

The universe is benevolent and works for our greater good. If we have forgotten that or would argue with that then we need to change our daily practice for this to seep into our lives. There is an orchestrated harmony that can be seen here upon the earth, up in the skies, and out in the cosmos of the stars. We are surrounded in every moment of time by an infinite power of goodness. This is what permeates and constitutes our being.

“All life is born in the waters of love, which are absorbed into our being and lived through our heart.  

Love is not an emotion. It is our complete state of being human. There is no wall love cannot tear down, no hate which love cannot imbue with light, no obstacle love cannot overcome. 

If we have been miserly with love, self absorbed, we missed the very essence of who we are. When we express love, it brings us the solutions to all problems, the warmth and embrace and resolve of all things. When we feel anger, we must sit in the self and observe this anger. All things eventually dissolve if we remain aware.”   Maya Tiwari 

I believe this understanding of love is not learned, it is remembered. By sitting in the stillness of the morning and watching the day unfold, or observing the sun as it sets at night and smelling the scents of the flowers released at dusk is to be reminded that goodness is our inheritance.

Too often, too much of our day is filled with distractions that keep us from this divine memory. May we find clarity of thought in the stillness of this moment in time. 

Help us to remember, not to forget, that we are God’s best idea and cannot be separated from that Love.  It is who we are.  And at times, we have others, who by example, remind us of this truth.  And I know of one wannabe thief who had a chance to learn that very lesson.