Light Posted May 4, 2004 Share Posted May 4, 2004 The essence At the heart of every human, there burns a pure light. Its name is Love. It is that which makes every single human being precious and beautiful. We are born with hearts to love, and brains to understand why we should. We carry our light with us, hoping that people will see it. But as we grow, we are told that other things are really of value; our bodies or our faces or our bank accounts, and because so many people before us have erected steel vaults to keep their light in, they believe this themselves and tell us it is true. Some people have a sense of their own light, but despair of others ever seeing it. What use is a light on a planet such as this, they ask? Nobody has seen my light and therefore I must not be of value at all. We begin to lose sight of our light. Life intrudes. Life demands attention to its details. Life says we must have money, follow rules, buy cars, worry about whether our faces are nice enough. Life as we have created it steals us away from all that is essential. Because the people who have not hidden their light are few and usually far from us, it becomes difficult to retain our connection to our own light. Eventually, we get separated from love. People who have become separated from love unknowingly teach us how to become separated, ourselves. Our light having been assailed, our impetus to love is thwarted. Because that is painful, we build defenses. Eventually, layers of defense cover that flame until it becomes invisible to even ourselves; to the point that if others see the light in us, we don't believe them. And so Life throws its bushel over our light. It can be frustrating to see people refusing to let their light shine. It is heartbreaking to see people use the minds which could be used to find light use those minds to stifle the light of others and of themselves - but it is only to be expected on a planet where we learn not to value light. Light and love Light seeks light. Why do we 'fall in love' with another so soon? Perhaps it that Love seeks expression and so the light in the other and in us makes itself known very early. Perhaps those who love when all outward appearances seem to indicate that the people they love are not worthy see the light that others don't see. Perhaps Love that seeks to love knocks a crack in the armour so that our light shines out, even if only briefly. However, we have learned not to believe in Light; not ours and not the other's. One person thinks that seeking the light is a foolish enterprise; after all, the other has flaws - perhaps people of true light cannot be flawed; there must be a mistake - and so they conclude that they share no light, and the vault must be closed tight once again. The other knows the light is there and wants to see it again, but now the one is more fearful and builds a room to conceal the vault. Both are dragged back to Life and the moment of shared light is past. After all, Life is what is important. "I thought," said one, "that you had given me access to your light". "What light?", says the other. "I have no light" (the other dares not show this light lest the one throw water on it and extinguish it; for it is so fragile it is too precious to share and Life is too frightening). Sometimes even people who have seen each others' lights lose sight of the beauty they first recognized Other times, they find that the layers that the other has built over his light have so obscured it to himself that it becomes invisible to them. And so the brief moments of shared light pass and we retreat to our vaults, only rarely allowing a ray to escape. The agony we feel at the loss of someone is the agony of being disconnected from that light. We are back in darkness and alone but our hearts seek to reconnect with that light. What is sought You feel an emptiness. There must be something else to life, surely? What you seek is the capacity to love. What you long for is to love and to have that love received. There is no feeling more fulfilling, more exhilarating, or more perfect than that of loving another. We try to fill the gap with other occupations or entertainments, and sometimes the feelings they give us can approximate that we feel when we love - but they are still counterfeit and we know it. What you need to do to find in yourself is the ability to extend yourself outwards in love to others. This is the quest of the spirit. This is what the soul seeks to fulfil its true destiny. Finding nirvana is about becoming love. If you wish to be truly happy, concentrate on finding the light in each human you know. When you begin to understand how beautiful each person truly is - even if those people themselves don't understand it - you begin to live in love, for who can be unmoved by the magnificent sight of the light of all the stars? From time to time, we have moments of clarity; a piece of music, moments in the arms of a beloved; glimpses at the light that still burns brightly within children raise us and lift us and we experience for the briefest of times what it is to be love. Then we understand what it is we seek. Every once in a long while, we have the very good fortune to encounter someone whose light is not covered over; someone who, despite all of Life's difficulties and trials, has refused to allow that light to be hidden. Its glow illuminates our heart and allows our own light to burn brighter. Find your light. Look for the light in others. Be Love. Namaste Link to post Share on other sites
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