Life Is the School, Love Is the Lesson
The Spiritual Secrets to Opening your Heart to Unconditional Love...
“The four pillars on which consciousness rests are love, compassion, forgiveness and gratitude. Take away one and the whole house crumbles" - Alik Elzafon
This life is the greatest school there is. It’s always teaching us what we most need to know about ourselves. We were not born just to tolerate our lives, we are here to celebrate every moment of it. This path of celebration is about learning how to love ourselves and everything that we find within that we think, feel, and believe is not lovable.
When we stop dwelling on how we were wounded in our past, or how messed up we are in life today, we begin to see a brighter clearer future up ahead. We can begin to create new memories of our past by seeing them in a positive new light. This is how we open up a healing space for love to enter. When we start using our creative energy to enjoy seeing how blessed we truly are, it becomes effortless to see and feel how amazing it is to be alive!
Years ago, I once saw a bumper sticker that said, Life’s a School, Love Is the Lesson. That message stuck with me until this day. I had to realize that I could only learn this magnificent lesson of love by having a 100% trusting open heart. When the heart is fully safe to receive every moment of life, no matter what the experience life brings us, then automatically love feels safe to pour on in.
“Trust makes you available towards the ultimate, it makes truth available to you. Trust is a window to truth, yet great courage will be needed.” ~ Osho
When we open our hearts to trusting in the frequency of unconditional love, automatically the highest creative life energy floods in. We begin seeing how potent and valuable each moment of life is. We realize we are here to learn the most important lesson we are here to learn. How to fully love, accept, approve of, and appreciate who and what we are.
I found the secret to discovering this unlimited dimension of love within, is the same path as awakening the awareness that the God Source is within. This spiritual awakening all begins with a sincere willingness to trust 100% in love and allow love to be the very center of everything we do. Then, we are no longer searching for love. Whenever love is offered to us, we welcome the experience freely and easily.
When love is the reason behind all that we do, we simply live in a perpetual growing process of keeping our hearts open to life. The source of love takes over and knows without a doubt that the Divine Intelligence is here now behind it all. It rests in 100% trust that each experience is the right life experience that we are most needing to have, no matter what.
"Love is the only freedom in the world.” ~ Khalil Gibran
What does it mean to make love the center of your life? It means everything that you think, feel, and do stems from love because your heart always returns to love. It’s like the hub of a bicycle wheel is the main support for each spoke radiating out from it. The wheel spins fluidly because each spoke is directly connected to this center. The spokes can be your body, mind, relationships, work, home, and life dreams.
This willingness to let love be the hub of your life’s wheel can feel like a huge step for many of us. This means the ego is no longer in charge of the show. This wild, untamed, infinite source of love is the center, and so we initially may feel more vulnerable and insecure because the shaky unbalanced ego hub was always the demanding, needy, angry, desperate center of our thinking patterns.
When love takes precedence over ego, a state of wonder floods in. We feel more safe and secure yet have less need for control. We start attracting the most amazing experiences and people because we know our very center is always the infinite spiritual source of love itself. And when we commit every moment of our lives 100% to this devotion, we will realize just how beautiful, childlike, and tremendously innocent everything and everyone truly is.
You could say that love is the opposite of ego. This willingness to make love the center of all that you say and do is what allows you to be free from your ego. When love is more important than the ego, you will naturally stop defending your ego from potential problems and future arguments thus manifesting another relationship experience tethered with pain.
When love is the #1 priority in every conversation, you’ll forget to be insecure, inhibited from speaking your truth, and afraid of what others think. Instead, you will extend your energy effortlessly outward like the Sun. When love radiates from your being like rays of sunshine, you will never be afraid of getting hurt again.
It is only the ego that is afraid. When love is the center, you feel as if you are as bright as the Sun. You naturally love people, take more risks to help others, and thus create more loving thoughts of acceptance towards yourself. The ego watches in the background in awe of how powerful and magnificent you truly are.
“Love always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres, love never fails.” ~ 1 Corinthians 13
The amount of love we can radiate is a reflection of how much the ego is in charge. This radiant love is also a reflection of the depth of your spiritual path. For it is only the ego who would think, ‘Why should I help this person because what’s in it for me?” Instead of thinking, ‘How can I help you because I just want to free my ego and radiate this great love inside me.’
It is the ego who cannot see the Light is already always on within. The ego always looks outwards, while love always relaxes inwards. The ego is impatient while love is always patient, kind, and serving. The ego is always that immature insecure part of us who desperately wants to be wanted, needed, and loved.
Love naturally trusts life more than the ego, yet love also knows the ego is necessary to live in this world of duality. We need this illusory ego in the primary stages of school to form our independence and eventual sovereignty from the world. The ego separates us so that we can form unique beliefs about who we truly are. Without an ego, we could not have the experience of merging and becoming one with God. Who would know what God was if there was no separate “I” thinking it is feeling the presence of God now?
“Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it so that the other half may reach you.” ~ Khalil Gibran
My basic point is this. Your ego will most likely have a thousand reasons to not trust in life 100%, and it’ll be very resistant to making love the center of your life. Yet, try to befriend your ego by being rational about this. It feels far worse to live with ego as the center than with love.
In ego, you’re always thinking you need to protect yourself from something harmful and try to get somewhere better than here now. In love, there is no need to protect or defend yourself because you’re only thinking about how to let your passion radiate bigger and brighter.
Your ego is the only thing inside you that can feel anxious, insecure, and threatened. How could the Sunshine feel threatened about anything? You cannot threaten love. The Sun always shines its Light even when the clouds (the mind) are in the way. This bright soul inside you is truly infinite eternal Light, and cannot be threatened by anything or anyone in this world. Remember…
I invite you to sign up for graduate school today by taking on the highest assignment a human being can choose. Make love the center of your life and trust that every experience from here on is the right experience. Consider that your grand final exam at the end of life will be to see how much you were able to let go of fear and feel love as your very center.
"God never forsakes the devotee who has surrendered himself." ~ Ramana Maharshi
The secret to absolute success in this assignment is in Trust. Trusting that every single life experience you are having contains the necessary ingredients for your highest enlightenment, love naturally resides at the center. So trust in every feeling is the right feeling. Every thought is the right thought for that situation and that moment.
Trust fully in your intuition, and each situation you’re a part of. Trust in life so fully and deeply that every little tension inside of you relaxes deeply and completely. Then, you can easily see how your mind and ego were always the culprits tending to resist trust and make fear the priority. With trust, the highest truth will be revealed, and the ego will dissolve into bliss.
With a deeper relaxation into the vibration of trust, you’ll become more sensitive to life. This eventually becomes a movement of naturally feeling more open, honest, emotionally available, and receptive to love. Here you can feel your soul’s direct connection to the God Source easily.
Practice and play with this assignment for the rest of this year and notice how others respond differently to you. Soon you’ll see that your entire life has changed. Every day will be about how you can take greater risks to radiate more love, instead of thinking about what you are lacking. When love is the absolute center of your inner world, lightness and laughter will overflow into everyone. You’ll begin seeing how your connection with the God Source is ever-present and deeply liberating.
Just make your trust bigger than thoughts, beliefs, judgments, or any life experience. Trust 100% of the time in the power of love, and know this is the deepest spiritual essence occurring naturally at your core. This is one of the quickest ways to experience the God Source is within.
The simple energy of trusting in life is the secret to opening the doorway to God. It is the path to knowing the unconditionally loving God Source is the source of you. It’s not such a tough job if you consider the other possible techniques and habits you are already doing to try and reach God.
So I invite you, and I challenge you, and I dare you to fully explore this experience of love at the very center of your life. Relax fully into it, and let it spread throughout your mind. Remind yourself every morning that it’s possible to trust in life 100% of the time and explore what that feels like. Imagine you are doing this the first thing every morning when you wake up, and imagine seeing yourself in the mirror as a divine being who has made love the very center of you.
It’s finally safe to let down your guard and walk around with a receptive trusting heart welcoming in life with a big smile. It’s time to allow in the sensations of being free, loving, and open to life. It feels soooo good to be welcoming, and accepting of all people, life situations, and material things. Just try making love the center of your life for the next 48 hours, and let me know in the comments below what manifests for you…enjoy!!
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