From The Inside Out Mag.
For Personal Healing, Spiritual Growth & Development

What is this thing called love? Love is who we are. It is a force, a light, the energy of life. It is mysterious and beautiful. It makes us happy, gives us hope, allows us to create, and to believe that the impossible can happen. Its presence is unmistakable. It is exquisite and profound. It is older, wiser, finer, truer, sweeter, and more radiant than any human being. And yet it is difficult to explain. It can't be defined or analyzed, organized or priced. Its finest property is that when you are aware of it, it can never be mistaken for anything else, and nothing else, no matter how worthwhile or supposedly grand, can ever be passed off as love. And when you are in love, nobody, not your best friend, your parents, or even your own mind can talk you out of it.

Ultimately, it is the attainment of this love, that exists within yourself, that will transcend all else and change your life as you know it. It is the best - the essence of the Universe - in us. And it is love, this exquisite energy, with which we connect when we first enter into the human experience we call 'a relationship'. We see this energy in one another's eyes; we feel this divine connection in our bodies. It is this high energy, transcendent, remarkable feeling, and the longing for more, for a lifetime of it, which propels us into relationships with other people. Inner relationships become a reuniting of light.

 
Relationships are the endless interplay of this vast energy of love occurring in our daily human lives. Our longing to feel this love, to be in love always, to repeat and endlessly recapture this ecstatic luminous feeling every single moment, with the person who first inspired it in us, is why we 'fall in love' and why we choose 'to have relationships'. It is why, when our relationships are jaded and go sour, we reminisce about the way they once were. We want to reconnect with love and it is our greatest desire to feel the transforming and amazingly beautiful experience that first inspired us. We live to love!

A distinctly familiar, yet ominous energy seems to be taking quietly over, and things aren't the way they used to be. A new world, a new way of being, is creating change. We can feel it. There is a wonderful infiltrating awareness, a mystic pulse of connection that seems to be gathering us together. We are beginning to awaken to a different understanding. While we feel this interplay of divine guidance, our whole world of relationships is in an uproar. Love is pulverizing every relationship of record that isn't wide enough or brave enough to let real love in. Time has an extraordinary new energy and it passes before we have a moment to rest in it. We can't fantasize anymore about what our relationship lives will be. It's as if we've risen one morning to discover that a flurry of transformation occurred during the night. The journey is not clear at this point. We begin to question why the change, and yet are interestingly comfortable that it has finally come.

We have been moving forward into the future, away from a place that was dear and sweet, and familiar toward a world that seems strange and forbidden. Many of us have been raised to regard marriage as the only honorable relationship. We are waking up to discover that it is only one in a vast array of intimate connections. Our relationships are about our hearts, and all of this chaos is breaking our hearts. We all come from love, but our relationships have often been a detour from love. We don't know whether to go along with all this transformation or resist it, whether to think of it as some kind of progress or to dig in our heels. We pray for answers daily and meditate, intently awaiting a response.

 
I believe that we were all together once a single consciousness that was divided bit by bit, person by person, into the shining little pieces that are our individual souls. Love is the river, each human being a droplet of water, and together, in spite of our fears and resistance, we are returning to love, unconditional love, melting and flowing toward home. Explore your true being.

It's that simple, because in the end, nothing else really matters to us. In the beginning and in the middle, we're concerned with the forms of our relationships, what they look like, what our relatives think of them, how they stack up in the eyes of the world, and whether we’re satisfied sexually, emotionally, and financially. This is not unconditional love. In the end, we won't care about the forms. All that will matter is the love that was in them, the lessons we learned, and ultimately how it brought us closer to an expansive consciousness. No one can escape the divine upheaval of love. Your family won’t; your friends won’t.  I haven’t and you won't either. What is this thing called love? Love is our essence. Love is who we are.

By Anna McKee

Anna McKee is an intuitive mentor and counselor to adolescents and adults seeking a positive change in life. Her experience in advertising and marketing coupled with an education in business and social work , have lead her to founding and directing Wayfarer’s Mission, Inc., a non-profit organization dedicated to offering tools for self reflection and understanding through various programs. She is a free lance writer and editor, as well as, an active member of the Theosophical Society. Anna’s own experiences have lead her to further contribute to global awakening by authoring an untitled book dedicated to leading readers to higher consciousness through the gates of your heart.

Comments(3):

1. I really did enjoy this article it was reminder that I need and I am glad that you wrote to share with others. There is so much hurt and pain in the world and LOVE is the answer .

   Friday, February 18, 2011 Mary

2. Wonderful

   Friday, February 18, 2011 Carol

3. Thank you

   Thank you Mary and Carol I appreciate the feedback! Anna

   Monday, February 28, 2011 Anna