There are indeed many ways to express love. Here's how Ron Paul the American senator does it...

Awesome article.
Awesome follow up from Ron Paul!
Let it rise. Let the truth shine through.

And here's how the poet Derek Walcott does it...

"The time will come when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other's welcome,
and say, sit here. Eat.

You will love again the stranger who was yourself.
Give wine, give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has always loved you
all your life, whom you ignored for another,
who knows you by heart.

Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit.
Feast on your life."

Derek Walcott

That's a great article, Chris!

And how inspiring to see a US senator speaking out like that, it takes alot of courage, yes times they are a changing...

Thanks, love Fiona

This is an intesting debate,and illustrates and indeed questions the double sworded edge of how we define right action (personally and at a larger scale for the good of mankind/nation) and the purity of ''intention''. What I see is how right action can become distornted along the line if we are not checking our intentions, and waking up to posssible outcomes. In my eyes we can predict many possible outcomes, but most times this is not in the action plan. The above video illustrates Benevolent and Opposing powers magnetically fighting and in conflict, the polarity of unity consciousness.The separateness in effect of Unity Coinsciousness working in harmony for the good of mankind. Ron Paul shows a good exampale of wiping the SLEEP out of the eyes of unwakened beings!!!!! And he has the position to do so. I am wondering what were the consequences of his words????
From a personal perspectove ...Love is always there, but it depends on what your experience is and how you experience it.LOve can easily become manipulative , and distornted again when we are not checking our thoughts, actions and intentions.And what I sometimes experience is that tough love seems to be necessary at times (especially with my son) . So, I think we need alot more than just the ''feeling of love'', as shown in that beautiful Beetles movie All we need is love. Infact I am questioning the whole concept of love at present.How real is it? WE can certainly ''feel'' it, and yes its power to ''feel'' is very real and yes it HEALS,very powerfully and intangibally. BUt it goes further its about action.
I can love a tree. I can love the sky.I can love myself as part of this creation and others as a part of me and I of ''it''. But what exactly are we talking about here ?

If we getb the whole of humanity to love and become affcetionate tpowrads others we COULD potentionally HEAL our common body and communities.....But it seems society at large has been dubbed to work against the other- dog eat dog society.Everyone wants to be right, and soceity is designed to judge , love of ego stops people I think from loving the other. Loose the ego and love like you have never been hurt and people laugh at you....and think you come across as an aspie or something.

Today, I had an enlightening moment, as I dropped my son off at school , as he appropached the steps he did not want to go in, becaus I had a letter in my hand and he did not know what is was about.I stoppedand explained it was about him not dooing so well in his spellings becausr the boy had not been goiven asheet to learn them,so I intervened. Not oput of CONTROL,or expectation but out of love that he was put in the LIGHT and I was not ignoring things that happen to hoim in his life.I was trying to show him that I cared and loved him by doing this, wheras before I would let it sail........At the door one of theb TAS listened to how I was explaining it to my son, and looked at me and sniggered, to what felt like I was being judged.... THis time I did not judge her.I saw her as a puppet in a system, fiunctioning in a flawed society wher her automatic response was to look at me judgemnetally and snigger.The whole ethos that the head displays.. BUt I just felt loove for this woman and immense nurturement and love for myself and more focussed, centred in my self after this workshop. NOt worrying anymore about being judged....because I know that I am. Society teaches JUDGEMENT and not love.Based on fear and lack of love for self. What i felt was PITY.

THis morning as I meditates I cerayinly ''felt'' love around me.A universal love springing from the earth fluid and transcient, crystal clear love in its essence. LOve to me was always about feelings when I was younger but it has become more about rational right action since I gave birth to son. For example,in my learning mentor role at school,I established a time out feel good room, for my mentees, and the children loved it. I worked with the children dealing with spoecific issues like how to mange ones anger more effectively usng colour and art and dialogue, positive affirmation. At first the Head was happy with the work and with me until the other learning mentees gossiped about me and became very hostile indeed, distorting things that had been said.It was like the team ganged up aginst my god work.Before he knew it hen had aproblem oin the school and sent e-mails out to try to put it right in abenevolent way.
After sometime the behaviours still did not change and it was as if he turned against me thorugh fear, because there was aproblem in his school. There was on occasion when he said to me everyomne is saying nasty things about you, but you don't about them. I explainefd to him that I had no desire to become like them!!!! So I tried to irradiate peace.Yes I was pretty stirred up but it was an immense feeling that I was being invited to fall to a lower vibrationary consciousness......THis experinece showed me how truth and love for suffereing of humanity becomes distornted......... That quite cleary there is ALWAYS an opposing consciousness working when the LIGHT is shining.

Maybe I have yet to experince something different. A unifiction of the whole -a UTOPIAN LOVE!!!!!!!

THis is what I am addressing . I think love is something that we choose and exists in OURSELVES.

If we love ourselves we find that that is where love lives, and really it is about tloving the divity within to beable to love in a sense in a depersonalised way-others..A spiritual love, that expands the emotion ''feeling'' love. Yet it fluctuates sometimes we are in our lower feeling state, abound in amorhous feelings. Here one minute, out of sight the next...... I believe the art of loving is not just how one feels which is connected with the subconscious mind.TRue love is not just the romantic,orsexual feelings but rather a mental spiritual ''attitude'', commitment and unconditionally, even when you may not feel like it! Which is hard to do because we get ''stuck'' in the ''feeling lower self''. And there lies the difficulty. The same conflict at a larger scale between the higher and lower realms.

For me now I am learning how to be more equanomous both in personal relationships and in work situations, without coming across as being totally untouched and unattached.

For me it is about trying to interagte my higher and lower chakras and rid myself of all EXPECTATION, based on the ever flowing chaning soul And maybe just loving is sometimes enough and thats that..
When ones loves there is some form of expectation,attachmnet and it is conditional initially.WE can not escape this truth.. But the spiritual love I feel I am working towards is unconditional no matter WHAT and is much more challenging than the normal sense of the word .Easier said than done and requires commitment.I think commitment plays a huge role and devotion to ones task or person, and the freedom to let them be exactly who they are, which is immensily difficult because we have the I am right you are wrong disagreement, not for egos sake but but maybe at a lrager scale for the greater good .....

Conflict. Separtaion......Engagemnet of ego battles wher unconditional love flies out the window and the light has gone... Back to the mempry of pain when we were separated by unity consciousness.... And as I write its all coming to me its all beginning to MAKE SENSE.The closer to home I get!!!
The Utopian love that I am thinking abhout and working towards is the Spiritual love. Which I think is about not giving in or indulging into the lower ego.So that when you may feel angry and attacking you don't instead- you breathe, let go of the negative ego and a recalm,rational loving,tolerant, patient and always kind, not blaming and finding fault. Which is easier said than done, but possible.

This has given me the insight to SEE that most of the problems we have in relationships are from not being right with ourselves and with the DIVINE. We often think it is the other, but in truth everything your partner does is a spiritual test to teach you to practice UNCONDITIONAL LOVE and TRANSCENDENCE OF OUR NEGATIVE EGOS, feelings and thoughts.

I aslo think ways to show love are by sometimes telling the person we love them even if its hard to say it, or sacrificing things such ashere one lives, works, and forgiveness, to give and receive, to make the other feel happy. I don't think love is about satisfying the ego, and using another to better ones place,or to manipulate and harm them.....
It is about not holding o to NEGATIVITY and work towards a Christ like/Buddhist consciousness, working together and NOT against the other. Looking in each others eyes and ''feeling'' that love irradiate and immerseitself directly flowing through the universe....

And love comes in many different ways.....all for a higher purpsos...
My conclusion is when we loove ourselves more we can only truly love another and that is where and ewhy we getb stuck and like a bird who gets thrown back down to earth becaus its woings can not fly, has to work through that stuckness to be able to gte uo an fly and ascenf to higher places..

This is our evolutionary process .It about The Divine in us, and how we relate to the divinity within and the love it has for us as a whole to loove another..It is about separation unity and mastering the EGO , coming home....... NOt just as words or from the mind, but yes right from the heart ..... a pure ''feeling''.It just gets more dense as we fly into it........A beautiful clip from the poems of Rumi A gift of LOve, illustrate I think the divine love between man and God.....There is nothing else that will really survive... or that is worth it.
LOve & LIght Tess
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At the heart of this awakening; to truly honour ones highest self and free our souls from the imprisonment of surpressed systems and conditioned behaviours in all aspects of shining that ''love'' through in whatever place or 'way ' we are meant to accelerate higher consciousness change , whether at work in society or within personal relationships -calling on the ''light within'' daily is imperative to accelerate that change . And a certain amount of space to let a situation unfold, just as will without expectation, as Chris says it just unfolds by itself........we are just the catalysts....

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To me Love is the infinite expression of divinty that flows through all things. It is the ultimate embrace of creation where all rays within the spectrum unite. It is the very return to innocence, the wave back to who we truly are...

Upon this understanding the thoughts 'I am lonely', 'nobody loves me' fade into insignificance because we realise that love is at the very core, the essence of who we are. We find that only forms change, love simply is...

Love cannot be made or created. It is simply invited or realised within ourselves. If we feel unloved it is perhaps because we have lost the thread of connectedness that unifies the soul of all things. If we are looking for love outside of ourselves then we have missed it already.

We may be inspired by the loving actions of another, which in turn may help us to find that love within ourselves, yet unless we realise it first within we will always feel incomplete, always searching elsewhere. Until we recognise the true nature of Love, it will always elude us and likely evoke feelings of lonliness or dependency on another for our sense of completeness.

Trinity
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A beautiful musing on the nature and essence of what love is. True it is the source and streamimg divine well inside of self which interconnects with others. The pain of separateness is the memory of separation....

I personally never actually feel that lonley or dependent upon another. Infact I have faced and tested this one.I feel everything out there is already in here.Therefore I don't have a searching for love out there at all.I am learning how to love other people again...I am not so fussed if its not returned. I already have enough ''ín here''. IT can happen to me alot that I lose that thread of connectedness that unifies the soul of all things, in a wider sense... and thats when life can become painful.That's a beautiful way of putting it and reaches me deeply. Sometimes I feel a lot of self love and when I do the world loves with me....
LOve is Energy. A ball of energetic flow......

What I am finding is that love is always there....somewhere. And sometimes a reflection of whats in here.....but I certainly don't have a need to look for it...or shape it.It is just as it is.

I just try to be it as best as I can . Why do you think people may resist another persons energetic flow of love?.
Thanks for your musing I thought it said missing the point of love......LOL!!!

LOve and Light