Monday, January 17, 2011

Love. Spiritual Practice and Spiritual Experience


If you have ever had a "spiritual experience" you know that Love isn't just a sentiment that one person expresses to another, but rather, Love is the closest our language can get to expressing the True Nature of all Reality. Love is also the experience of what's left when we truly "let go" of all of our stories, judgements, and other mind made barriers that are covering it up. Love is also ever-present, which means there's no where or when that love is not, because love is always Now, and love is always Here. "I love you" means I see and know you as you are now, without a past, without a story, but just as you are, reproduced by Love itself, and therefore sharing both the image and likeness of this Divine and creative force that pervades the entire universe. Cultivating the awareness of this is done through spiritual practice. That's actually what spiritual practice is. It is any effort toward this EXPERIENCE of, or the awareness of Reality as it is. Of course Reality and Love is beyond both of the concepts, however they seem to be close to or at least as close as we can get to...read more.

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