All About Love - #8

By By Dorothy M. Neddermeyer, P.hD

The act of Love carries energy and energy facilitates transitions—transitions create healing. The energy generated by the act of love is astounding. When someone commits to the practice of a life of love and spiritual growth anything can heal. Healing is easy. The following well-known authors, motivational teachers and healers clearly and poignantly express the truth of love and healing. Part IX

"Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost." – Robert H. Schuller

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance." - Oscar Wilde

"Don't be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is before you can meet again. And meeting again after a moment or lifetime is certain for those who are friends." - Richard Bach

"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning." – Author unknown

"The end is the beginning of something new." –Author unknown

"Tomorrow is a new day and time has a way of healing the pain of bad experiences." – Author unknown

"What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from." -T.S. Eliot

"The past is like a river flowing out of sight, The future is an ocean filled with opportunity and delight."
- Anna Hoxie

"Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life And when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful - a thought that is love." - Mary Manin Morrissey

Can Love Destroy A Life?

By CD Mohatta

The title of this article is a little shocking, Isn't it? Because no one can think of love and destruction together. But love does destroy. How? Let us examine.

There is a story of a prince in India. He was in great love with his wife and never wanted to be without her. One day, an enemy king attacked him, but the prince did not want to go out and fight. He did not want to be away from his princess. The princess realized this and she asked the prince to go out for a minute. After sometime, a maid brought the head of princess to the prince with the dying message of the princess. 'Let our love not destroy you. You are a prince and you must save your state from the enemies. I am giving up my life so that you can carry out your duties properly.' Does this small story tell us anything? What lessons can we draw from this?

Many of us are extremely talented. Our talent can create a big difference to the world. We can help the world fight poverty, injustice and produce a better life for all. But some of us fall in frenzied love. This love is all encompassing. This love takes over our life. We see nothing but our sweetheart everywhere. For us, all the other work becomes insignificant. We lose our focus and are centered on our love like a mad person. This eats away the vitals of our personality.

For a person in deep and fanatic love, nothing matters other than love. All other talents take a back seat and the only driver is love. This kind of love destroys. Love that could have been very inspiring, manages to destroy. This is the irony of love.

To save yourselves from such destruction, you must always keep a level headed approach towards everything. You must sit back and reflect. Find out if you are missing larger goals? Think about time management and thought management. Discuss this out with your sweetheart. He/She will surely help you in such a situation. One who loves you, wants you to grow. So discuss this. Think, reflect and make other goals equally important once again in life. Fall in love. Enjoy the bliss of love. But let that love not destroy your personality.

What It Means to Love the Self

By Jeremy Creager

To me what it means to love the self is "growth", Personal Self Growth. It is those big questions "WHY" we all ask as children growing up. (So Just Do Not Stop Asking Why.)

I love to learn about love and self, and life, and freedom, and health, and abundance and happiness, and pure positive healing light unconditional love sores energy.

"I have found that to love the self is to learn what serves me most."

To know what serves us most we have to not only ask, but we have to come-to know what's true for us around questions like,

"What's the meaning of life?"

"Who am I?"

"Where did I come from?"

"Why am I here?"

"Do I have a purpose and what is it?"

"What is love?

And if not love then what else is there that I want to experience in life?"

And so on...

All these types of questions above will guide and lead us to higher vibration, lighter being’s of love, when asked in honest desire to know.

I know that for me to grow; it is only up to me and no one can do it for me.

Growth is self-response-ability.

I alone am the only one that can find what self love means to me.

So,

What does it mean to love the self?

If I were asked, "what does it mean to love the self?"

I would say that the answer comes in stages as consciousness evolves.
Even if we were to know the complete answer the first time the question was asked, once we know the answer, we do not need to ask the question.

We would have to ask, where is love for the self?

Love for the self is within the self, it is the self.

We would have to ask, where is the self to love?

The self to love is deep down at the core of oneself, within the awakened consciousness that is beyond the ego. The self comes from a place of non-attachment and freedom from separateness.

We would have to ask, what is the self that is loved?

The self that is loved is love and life force. The self is the reflection of all the beauty of life and is not attached to the idea of being the self.

We would have to ask, what is the love of the self?

Love of the self is joy, is bliss, is health, is beauty, is greatness, is wise, is the way to God, is God, is You.

We would have to ask, why is there a self to love? There is a self to love because this is the way we want it. The self to love exists because that is all there is, there is nothing else, and the reason is to love the self.

We would have to ask, why love the self?

To love the self is to live life to the fullest, because it feels so good; loving the self feels the best. To love the self is the only way to happiness and health—physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.

We would have to ask, how do we love the self?

We love the self by being kind to the self, by learning what the self is, and becoming passionate—even fanatical—about the self, what it wants and needs, by spending time alone going over all the beautiful parts of our self. We love the self only by taking responsibility for our self and having self-respect.

We would have to ask, how does the self love?

The self loves by choice, by free will, by the desire to feel good and to avoid pain. The self loves by its own actions. The self loves itself with compassion.

We would have to ask, when do we love the self?

I think a better question is, "is now a good time to love the self?” “When” is a funny thing; there is only now.

We would have to ask, when does the self love?

The self loves when we are present in the moment, and experiencing love by feeling good.

To love the self means to honor and respect the self, to make it a lifelong practice to love the self, to always see and enjoy the beauty within the self, to go deep into the self to know and remember one’s hidden depths, to accept oneself. It means being love, expressing love, and knowing that one is perfect in all one’s imperfections. It means being in the moment and it means being in love with oneself and all of life.

So "Learning to Love All Things Every Day and Even Down to Every Moment Is for Me What "Self Love" means, And This Is Growth.