Love

LOVE IS MY RELIGION

Ziggy Marley made famous the quote, “Love Is My Religion”.  

The Beatles simply stated “All You Need Is Love”.

In his song Here to Love, Lenny Kravitz wrote;

“We’re not here to judge

We are here to love

There’s no room for hate

We are just one human race

We must rise above

We are here to love

There’s no time to waste anymore.”

LOVE THE LORD THY GOD WITH ALL THY HEART

So why do we as humans find it so hard to love ourselves and others? The first two commands are all about love. We find in Matthew 22:37-40 The following quote by Jesus,

“Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” Continue reading

Living in gratitude.

grat.i.tude

The quality of being thankful; readiness to show appreciation for and to return kindness.

Cultivating an attitude of gratitude is a foolproof way to happiness. By focusing on our abundant blessings, we leave little room to complain about what we are lacking.

Love and Gratitude

In his book Messages from Water and Universe, Dr. Masaru Emoto found that the words love and gratitude were the most powerful when used in his experiments with water molecules. These two words completely transformed the water molecules into brilliant and beautiful shapes.

As an explanation of this phenomena, Dr. Emoto wrote,” God created the concept of love; and as a representation of the receiving energy, He created the concept of gratitude.  So, love is the active energy and gratitude is the passive receiving energy.”

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Love is an inside job

There are many types of love and ways to express it. The love between a parent and child, partners, friendship, even the love we have for our animals are some of the ways we love.

Some say that until you have loved and lost, you have never really known love at all. Unfortunately, most of us love with conditions attached. Most of us have forgotten the true meaning of love.

In his book The Divine Romance Paramahansa Yogananda says the following, “The greatest romance you can have is the romance with God…He is the Lover and our souls are the beloved, and when the soul meets the greater lover of the universe, then the eternal romance begins.”  Continue reading