LOVE : AWAKE TO THE POSSIBILITY OF EXPRESSING LOVE

Love is a passive thing. Falling in love, feeling love, that is easy...an encounter with right and rare combination of luck and chemistry, and voila...you are in love. But learning how to express love and how to be loving, is an entirely different thing. There are times in the world when you will be without a partner. There are times when you feel very far from ever finding a partner. There are lonely times when you feel at best disconnected from the rest of the world and at worst like some kind of unlovable freak. But instead of waiting for love to show up in the form of your dream man or woman, instead of pining away in existential loneliness, try this instead: Drop your identification with your story that you need love from outside...know that you need nothing to experience love. All you need to do is move through the world, moment by moment. Awake to the possibility of expressing love. And then give it to every living being you encounter. Do it for an hour and see if it changes your mood. Increase the time you are in this loving awareness. That your heart is full.