Use the precepts of love. First, Assume nothing. We assume something in every moment. In almost every moment we assume something with our minds. So how do we not make assumptions? Well, you have to live from your heart, and not your head. Because what does the head do when it makes assumptions? It draws conclusions that are not real, it makes projections that are not real and that are actually your own.
The next precept is, Accept everything. What does “accept everything” mean? It means, accept everything just the way it is, without trying to change or manipulate anything.
Take nothing personally. Think of how many times in the course of the day you take something personally. Somebody said something and they had the wrong intonation in their voice, so you think they’re judging you or doing something that they personally do, to take you out of your peace. That’s not the case; it’s just the way it is. Taking nothing personally is having a very neutral consciousness. The ego is not there. In order to take nothing personally, you can’t be there. When we think that we are something, then we are there, and the something that we are, thinks a certain way about how we think it should be in relationship to us, whatever the “it” is.
The fourth precept is, Do your best to uphold the first three. If you do this, all of your acts will keep you from dissipating Love. If you’re in assumption, you’re dissipating Love. If you are not accepting what is, but you’re getting frustrated, then you’re dissipating Love. If you’re taking things personally, you’re dissipating your Love. Love isn’t the romantic feeling that we associate with love; that’s not love. I’m not saying that love isn’t there, but there’s a lot of physiology there, and there’s a lot of karma there, too. There‘s a lot of karma there when we get attracted to situations; sometimes it’s good karma, sometimes it’s not.
But Love is really the test of what happens when things are not going the way you want them to go. Love is really trying to come through when you don’t assume something in the face of what seems obvious, where we usually make an assumption or draw a conclusion. But all of this is up here, isn’t it? It’s all a big head trip. It is not remembering God consciousness.
Both of our parents are suffering in the face of the challenges of aging. One of them almost just died. They’re both suffering, and I see it, but I’m okay with all of it because I really trust Love. I know they’re in God’s hands, and the struggle that they’re actually having is between them and God. They’re working out whatever they’re working out, and that’s what I see.
That is each person’s privilege. It’s really easy to know what to do for others, and what to do is just to love them. That’s such a pure and easy thing to do. But my point is that every person’s contract with the divine is a very personal thing, and we’re working it out our entire lives right up until our last breath. Finally, sooner or later, more simply or with great struggle, we let go to the Spirit world.
So the nature of Love is what you’ve been working on for a very long time. And the four precepts of Love will bring you to a place of remembering what you need to remember. Sometimes the very thing you don’t want to do is the very thing you should do. At the moments when we feel the most aggravated, that’s our biggest chance, at the moment when we feel the most anger, the most fear, whatever the “most” is that we feel, the most anxiety, whatever—that’s the moment when we have the greatest opportunity to call on Love, to call on God, the consciousness of harmony which is Love. That’s what God and Goddess are to me, the consciousness of Love.
And everything else is not that.
Don’t be afraid to love, for heaven’s sake. Get out of your head. Stop being afraid. Stop getting into your head about love. And just fall. We have to fall over and over and over again. And we have to fall without knowing where we’re going to land. See, that’s the surprise. That’s the great surprise.
It’s so interesting that Love is the guiding light of our lives, our universe, and our whole existence, and yet we are still trying to understand the nature of Love. It is the one thing we know is ours. We know it, not with our heads, but we are drawn to it with our hearts. It eludes us so much because we are the obstruction and we are the way. We put the clouds in front of the sun, we create the separation and the dissipation, we leave, we fail, we leave Her. She “suffers our foot to be moved.” The one thing that we want the most is always with us. It’s always there; it’s just that we walk away from it, either from time to time, or fully. And a lot of people don’t even know it’s there. “I don’t believe in God.” God and Love are synonymous to me; God is not a specific deity and not a specific religion. It’s a consciousness, it’s a resonance. It’s peaceful, it’s harmonious; it trusts, and it’s enduring. It never leaves us.
(May 26, 2013)
Maresha's next blog will be published December 31.
Messages of Light is published by the Sanctuary of Universal Light on Snow Dragon Mountain in Meredith, New Hampshire. www.snowdragonsanctuary.com.
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