Open Your Heart To Love
This article is part of my ongoing Series on Love.
In this great university that we call life, there is perhaps no more important lesson we receive than learning to love.
Love manifests in our lives in so many different forms and circumstances that it is an ongoing opportunity to explore, experiment and express. If we open our heart and deeply consider what we have been learning in life that has given us the most joy and the most challenges, we can see that love is a predominant theme.
The great philosophers of old, most particularly Plato, defined love in three basic categories, that of Agape, how God loves us or how we are directed to love God; Philos, or love of friends and others; and the all important Eros, erotic or sexual love. And of course, the love of parents and children and family seems to be another important category.
Indeed, within these three or four very diverse categories that define love is enough lessons and life experiences to fuel millions of books, thousands of films and television scripts, and a seemingly endless stream of talk shows on media outlets around the world.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
~ Khalil Gibran
There is perhaps no greater desire in the human heart than that of both giving and receiving love. Of course, as with so many dynamics of our all too human consciousness, we seem to feel that it is better to receive than to give. But if we explore the experience of love, dispassionately and deeply, we may find that we receive as much if not more love by giving rather than receiving it.
This may explain the teaching of Jesus when he said, “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” Love, and lessons about Love are without question exalted in the life and teachings of the Christ.
When we think of the span of our years and focus on the times we have loved and the ways we have loved, we may realize that those times and events where we gave love unconditionally created such joy that we treasure the experience throughout our life. If we hold those experiences in our hearts and consider the power of those times to guide and transform our lives, we will begin to understand more of the dynamics of this great life lesson called love.
An honest review of our life will reveal to us that the times we have succeeded beyond our expectations in giving love have yielded rich dynamics to our experience of living. Likewise, those times when we have failed, on either side of the experience of love, to either give or receive, have resulted in profound heart-wrenching pain and sorrow.
Contained within the lessons of love is a microcosm of the many consciousness shifts we need to make to live a life of joy. We truly do need to be aware of the benefit of mastering this great lesson of life. Love is best learned in the act of letting ourselves give love and equally important, letting ourselves receive love. Ponder on this!
If we open our hearts to give love, we are immediately transported into the joy and blessings of love.
~ Genevieve Gerard
Loving is an experience that is immediately reinforced by expanding and enhancing our life experience.
Therefore, to learn about love we need only to give love as fully and completely as we can and to accept all that love offers to our life. It is profoundly simple, but strangely, it is often not easy.
Opening to love opens us to so much of what is the very best of life that making a commitment to love is a powerful portal to the gifts of awareness and joy. I encourage you to open your heart to love and embrace this lesson as a great adventurer and explorer of life.
Namaste,
Genevieve
The Blessing of Love On All That you Do!
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Very nice post
It is hard to find true love, but you sound like you know what you are talking about! Thanks
Excellent Post. Thanks for sharing.
Is LOVE always good? Isn’t there something as wrong kind of love?
Some people will tell you they love you or use the word love when their behavior and actions are not loving. The desire and need for love can make people vulnerable to manipulation, and this fake “loving behavior” can get confusing because the person is claiming to love you. Therefore, watch what someone does when they say they love you. Saying they love you should never be an excuse for mean or cruel behavior. Love is not mean and cruel. Yet, if you are honest with yourself, you know what love is deep in your heart, and you know when someone is saying they love you but behaving in ways that are not loving. Blessings, Namaste Sonia.
I want real love and partner for the rest of my life.
I pray you find the love you long for. Love is the only thing we can create in life that is eternal.
Blessings!
Is there a right timing for True love? What if it came late, YOu are already committed when you think the right guy comes along.
Timing is always important. Remember Loving someone and being in a romantic relationship with them are 2 different things. A love bond is an eternal connection between two Souls. You can still have the joy of that connection in a Philos relationship. Ponder on that. Blessings.