LOVE...THE FABRIC OF LIFE ITSELF

Rohr today writes, "Love is what we were made for..." and I read "Love is what we were made of..." and there was my blinding flash of the obvious. Love is the sum and substance of what all life is...love, simply love. That is its fabric, its content. It is the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat, the sunshine, the rain...God itself.

It may be only the human ego that misses this completely, denies it and in that denial is all about proving that ego is what we were made of.

Interestingly, on awakening, I flashed that everything in our life is simply our interpretation of what we are perceiving. I realized that years ago, but it came again this morning more urgently somehow.

Then I read an Albert Einstein quote, "A human being is part of the whole, called by us 'universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest -- a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."

To me, that says the exact same thing as my BFO...only more intelligently. Which led to my interpretation of that: It is the ego that experiences ourselves as something separate from the rest, the ego that interprets our perceptions and labels them "good" or "bad," "for" or "against."  The "goods" and the "fors" are legislating for the ego...all else must be resisted.

There. That is the very reason why we humans must seek still more spiritual growth for, of ourselves, we will always rely on the ego. We could be released from all resentments, any negative factors at all, if we were only willing to release the ego charge that is born in and flows from contempt, dislike, adverse judgments. The more we are in contempt, disliking and judging, the hotter the ego-charge, the further from the natural state of love that flows in us, from us, through us, is always present...but rarely realized.

It takes serious desire...not work, desire (willingness)...to detach from our ego values...to let our consciousness be raised through surrender of our own self-will. Self-will, that which tells us it is our only safety, our only protection. It never was, it never is, it never will be...loose it and let it go.

Thank you.