It seems like one can reach a point where this Love no longer really disappears. Instead of fear replacing Love, it merely attempts to cloud over it at best with things such as painbody attacks or whatever else, yet this fear can never fully override love, despite the fact that it may look like it on the surface. Just like on a cloudy day, you can still notice the way the sun makes the clouds glow from behind. The sun doesn’t fully disappear anymore.
Have you ever noticed how the ego really likes to juice negative situations? It’s like it derives a certain sense of satisfaction out of stewing in anger about a situation, regretting the past, worrying about the future, wallowing in sadness or self-pity, exacting revenge on another, and so on. You know.. typical ego “stuff.” It’s almost like a “guilty pleasure,” in a sense. If we’re honest with ourselves, even though we know it’s bad, on another level it can still feel oh so good…
Yet even though this “bad” stuff is happening, Unconditional Love is always here. This Presence, whatever it is, is undeniable.
Because it becomes so obvious and everpresent, it may begin to feel like a burden to the ego, like a thorn that just won’t go away. No longer can you sit in your own self-created pile of poo, ignoring Love. Logically we wouldn’t want to do that of course, but it can feel comforting to rest in our ego. There’s a sense of familiarity in it if it’s what we’re used to.
With sincere devotion to Truth/God/Love, it’s like its presence can no longer be suppressed and will continue to power its way through your crap, as if it is here burn through your junk. No longer do you have the luxury of ignoring it and pretending it doesn’t exist. And this is so fortunate, as uncomfortable as it may be to surrender away yet another layer of crud.
This Unconditional Love that arises is not really a choice. It’s not a decision. It’s neither logical nor illogical. It simply Loves because that’s what Unconditional Love does. It is its nature. There is no other option. This Love just powers its way through what you think you are, transmuting everything into itself. In shines from within, transforming everything it touches as it radiates both through your body and out into the world. This Love is not always soft and quiet. No no. It can also be quite intense and powerful as well.
Unconditional Love itself, its very presence, is very upending to one’s ego. It’s like it’s shaking the ego from its comfortable position on its throne. Who’s gonna get to sit in the throne? Love or fear?
If you surrender and let this game of fear vs. love happen, well, let’s just say that love is a big girl and she can take care of herself.
Yet another experiential thingy that can be experienced in this singular timeless moment.
When we talk about the idea of letting go of something, there’s sometimes still some hope that letting go of something will automatically get rid of it. Why else would we do it? So people try really really hard to let go and notice that what they’re letting go of, be it an emotion or circumstance, doesn’t actually go away.
Let’s explore the mechanics of letting go of something and see how this differs from pushing against something.
Imagine holding a pebble in your fist with your fist in front of you, palm down. Now squeeeeeeze that pebble with all your might. You’ve got it in your hand and there’s simply no chance of the pebble falling away.
Now no matter how hard you try to throw the pebble, it’s not going to leave. Why? Because you’re still holding onto it so strongly.
If you want to get rid of the pebble, your job is actually not to get rid of it. Simply let go of holding onto it. When you relax your hand and open up your palm, gravity does the rest and the pebble automatically leaves.
Do you see this? You do NOTHING to actually make the pebble leave your hand. You simply open up and stop resisting.
This is KEY.
Letting go has nothing to do with pushing away and everything to do with non-resistance.
Have you noticed how when you really really want something, it just doesn’t come.
and when you let go of wanting it and basically forget about it, it suddenly pops into your life?
What’s up with that?
There’s gotta be more to the story than just positive thinking. What’s missing? There must be an easier way.
Let’s look at what’s going on from the perspective of what you want, giving us insights into how to actually get what we want.
Featured in this video is Marie Levit, spiritual teacher and author of the book Healing God. In her book, she has a dialogue with God on a variety of topics from guilt and regret, to love and fear, and compassion and suffering. Her book is available for preorder directly on her website HealingGod.net as well as on Amazon.com.
Love itself is unconditional by its very nature. It just loves. What else can love do?
Love itself doesn’t hold back. It doesn’t fear. Holding back holds back. Fear fears. Love simply loves.
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
-Rumi
For those of you familiar with author David Hawkins, he speaks of progressive levels of consciousness that one can evolve through. Towards the higher end of the spectrum, beyond guilt and shame, one can open up to the flowering of love itself.
At first this love that is experienced may seem conditional. For instance, maybe you only love the people you approve of. Maybe you only love your friends and family. Maybe you only love “your type” of people. Maybe you only love these people in certain situations and under particular contexts and not others. In this sense, we could say that this love is experienced conditionally.
Yet experiencing love conditionally does not mean that love itself is conditional. For those of you who are looking to become unconditionally loving, let’s take a closer look at this.
This is sooooo not what I thought it would be or what I was expecting it to be, this whole awakening thing.
It feels like I’m being wiped out, deleted, cleansed away, the little “me” anyways. I’m not completely done by any stretch of the imagination, but rather right in the midst of the process.
On the You Are Truly Loved: Enlightenment Forums, one of the topics of discussion is the idea of how there is no controller. Another level of understanding recently came to me and so I’m going to share what I wrote in the forum post here as a blog post as well.
From the typical enlightenment perspective, the separate self / conscious mind / ego / “me” surrenders control and allows existence / God to guide the physical expression of what is. The “me” is not in control and doesn’t make the decisions. Heck, there isn’t even a “me” who is in control of thoughts! Ideas simply pop into awareness.
From the Law of Attraction perspective, EVERY idea arises from the Higher Self. Not one idea you can have originated in the limited conscious mind. It originates in the Higher Self. (More information here.) The physical you is not in control and doesn’t figure out how anything works. That’s not its role, at ALL!
So the physical mind relaxes and lets go of needing to figure everything out, lets go of figuring out the “how” for the future.
When the mind tries to figure out “how” and plays a role it’s not designed to, suffering arises as the physical self feels overburdened with lugging the baggage of all the stuff it’s not designed to carry. The body begins to feel stressed out and exhausted.
Surrender is basically a way to let the various aspects of yourself play their proper roles and so you’re being your WHOLE Self. All parts of the Self work together performing their intended tasks.
So when we say surrender to God, that’s simply another way of saying let go of figuring out how things work with your mind and allow the superconscious non-physical “mystical” knowingness that may come in the form of the Higher Self or spirit guides or guardian angels or what-have-you… all of whom communicate via synchronicity and intuition, let all of those higher dimensional aspects of God play their role in guiding the physical aspects of us.
Yet we understand that at a deeper level, it’s all us anyways for it’s all One. You are that. It’s all you.
So, the physical you is not in control. There is no controller here in 3D physical reality. There is no doer. There is simply action being done.
Check out these quotes and see if they make a little more sense now.
David Hobby, a photographic lighting blogger at Strobist does this nifty thing he calls speedlinks. Basically he periodically shares a collection of cool links that are worth checking out. What a great idea. Let’s do the same thing here.
Each of these people talk about related topics, but they do from a slightly different angle with varying contexts and experiences. Appreciating their unique qualities is much like enjoying all the ingredients in a delicious pie. Oh sweet variety!
So with that, let’s dive right in!
Davidya has a great post titled The End of Ignorance where he talks about the flashes of awakening and the progressive dissolution of egoic identification. The sword of Truth at work!
Kenton Whitman brings up some funny points about being happy and being sad, and suggests that we take a look at what’s right about our emotions rather than what’s wrong about them.
Evelyn brings up a very important topic about how the pain we feel is can often be the pain of others. Recognizing this, the ability to surrender and allow the pain to pass through you without trying to ‘fix’ the problem becomes that much more important, for there’s nothing ‘wrong’ that happened other than the energy of someone else’s pain being resisted and then getting stuck within your own body. Nifty concept, eh?
Avani-Mehta discusses how to claim your personal power and learn to say no and feel good about it while coming from a place of integrity and self-respect. This is important because acceptance of what is doesn’t mean you somehow give up the ability to say no.
Irene addresses the topic of synchronicity, sharing some personal experiences of hers as well as what those synchronistic events have taught her. Synchronicity is such a fun topic and you can tell she is enjoying her ‘coincidental’ experiences in the process.
Steve Pavlina explains and illustrates how soulful relationships work when you choose to come from a place of Oneness and Unconditional Love rather than separation and fear.
Have you found some more cool spiritual articles worth checking out? Feel free to share ‘em with us down in the comments section below.
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It seems like one can reach a point where this Love no longer really disappears. Instead of fear replacing Love, it merely attempts to cloud over it at best with things such as painbody attacks or whatever else, yet this fear can never fully override love, despite the fact that it may look like it on the surface. Just like on a cloudy day, you can still notice the way the sun makes the clouds glow from behind. The sun doesn’t fully disappear anymore.
David Hobby, a photographic lighting blogger at 
