This is Love, Pt. 2 of 7: Waking Is Rising

My quest for knowledge initially isolated me.

Perhaps this was the result of my unsophistication at being an auto-didact.

I believe it is different now.

The answers I was looking for where always available to me as long as I sought love.

The whole world loves you, if you allow it.

I started to seek love in my enemies.

I sought love in my abusers,

I sought love in my deniers.

A road finally become visible.

A road felt – always sensed, but overlooked.

A road leading towards my true self, to my true ground.

A road to life.

My temple had been in disrepair; I had neglected it.

But when I started to repair it, others assisted.

My enemies began to love me.

My abusers sought forgiveness.

My deniers began to see the truth in what I said.

They elevated me as I elevated myself.

They love as I’ve loved; I love as They’ve loved.

My hopes for a shared better future opened their hearts.

And their hopes for my fulfillment quickened my mind.

Our desires became aligned with the search for a greater good

And the world¹ began providing for our agency.

All worked collectively, and to the best of their ability, to build new monuments of nourishment.

The act of loving requires actively trying to prevent an object of affection from becoming hungry for happiness.

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance.

The wise man grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

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THIS IS LOVE, Part 2 of 7: A Virtuous Cycle Commences

Love in the consequence of the balanced² pairing of a multitude of opposites.

A lover and an object of affection.

A carrier and a carried.

A giver and a taker.

An end and a beginning.

An Actor and An Observer.

Reintegration and Rebirth.

We only grow by taking advantage of the reciprocal nature between willful sacrifice, and love…

I must destroy myself to make a life worth living.

I must be consumed for a chance to try again.

The origin of The Universe is a story of love.

A Previous Unity severed itself out of a yearning to intimately know itself; to love.

IT did this trusting that the fragmented pieces it became would find a way to reunite anew.

A trust extended to everyone of us being witnessed in a new incarnation.

I shall find that kindred light and shelter it.

I shall find that kindred light and fuel it.

I shall find that kindred light and transfer it.

I shall find that kindred light and praise it.

I shall find that kindred light and cultivate it to nurture; not destroy.

I shall find that kindred light to give mine meaning.

In helping others I externalize my condition, and observe solutions in effect.

By helping others, I discipline myself to manifest the outcomes most in-sync with my intuition³.

I endeavor to find other hearts like mine to piece together the soul fractured at the beginning of time.

This is Love.

1. People of a common mind for good. ↩
2. May by dynamically balanced. ↩
3. Soul. ↩