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Spirit – Releasing the Light Within
that love for itself, particularly if it is not feeling loved. When
we look at how little we understand love, how can we expect to
know the feeling of love? Often when we spiritually meditate
we experience feelings that are strange to us. Because of these
feelings we are very often moved to tearfulness. These are tears
of joy and happiness brought on by the experience of the
Divine flow of Love, Love from God, the Spirit, to the Spirit
that is the true us. The closest we can get to that feeling through
our ego is when the heart feels it. This is why the advice is often
given to go with ones heart.
The human has become so desensitised to the real
power of love that it uses the word indiscriminately. This word
carries a power that can overcome almost anything, overcome
almost any resistance. Unfortunately for the desensitised it
becomes a weapon to gain control over another. It can be used
to lull another into a false sense of security, making them
vulnerable. It is perfectly safe to be a loving human being once
one knows what love is. Once one becomes re-sensitised
through spiritual awareness and practice then one can safely
enjoy what love really is.
It is easy to love, harder to accept love. The older one
becomes the more mistrusting they become of the term love.
Because they have trusted situations in which that word was
used and been hurt as a consequence, they become closed to
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