Recognizing The Presence Of Love

The presence of love is always available. Once we recognize it, we also recognize we too are the presence of love. It surrounds us and abides within us. This meditation provides an entrance into that state held within you. It is your natural place of being.

Transcript

The present moment is always waiting for us,

And there's always a part of us that's in it.

And it's about bringing our conscious awareness to the moment that we're absolutely already in.

And this is about bringing our conscious awareness to the volume of love that is always available.

And I remember being at Martin's Fried Chicken,

Because I love fried chicken.

And it's the best fried chicken I've ever had.

And it's in Alabama where my brother lived for a while.

And when I was waiting in line there,

Because it was a long line,

And this lady's family had gone on in to put their name in and had left her for a moment so that she didn't have to walk with them.

And she was standing there leaning against a wall and she began to tire and there weren't any chairs.

And there was a man there,

A black man that was,

And she was white and he was black.

And he was about her same age.

And they were of the age that they would have watched civil rights come into play in the 50s and the 60s.

They would have been there before that time too.

And she began to falter and he came beside of her and ran his hand under her arm and held her hand.

And she looked into his eyes and he looked into hers and they smiled.

And I was hit with so much awareness and love that I almost went into tears in that moment because of what they had to become aware of to get past,

You know,

To be able to be there for each other in that moment.

And he shored her up and stayed with her till her family returned.

That magnitude of love is always around us,

Waiting for us to engage with it.

Love is always present.

And the only thing that has to shift is our present awareness to that love.

It arises through acts of kindness,

Supports those acts of kindness,

Because what did that do,

Him holding her hand?

It didn't grab her legs.

It didn't hold her up.

But in that moment,

There was support.

What could sustain all of a sudden her balance with just a hand holding?

It wasn't simply that someone was holding her hand.

It was love and action.

Penetrating into their bodies and supporting what needed to be supported in that moment.

Love doesn't just support our thought actions.

It supports the body.

It gives strength to the mind,

To the heart,

To the body.

And every person waiting there in that restaurant was being supported by that love.

All of us that got to see it and observe it and be in the present moment with it.

And because that man and woman were nowhere but right there looking in each other's eyes,

They were recognizing the presence of love that goes beyond our histories and our wounds.

So let us enter this moment together.

And we breathe in,

Letting the air fill our lungs.

And then next time we breathe in,

After the breath has filled our lungs,

Notice the energy that you can continue to pull in as if you're inhaling this energy.

And that energy resonates with the energy of your own being.

Once the air has filled our lungs,

What is it that is now entering us as we focus on drawing that energy in through our nose?

And we can draw it in through our skin and it fills every cell of our being.

And what does it resonate to?

So we look at what is this energy and what is it resonating to?

For life to grow on this planet,

It is continuously receiving love,

Whether it be from the sun,

Whether it be from air.

What is infused in the light?

What is infused in the air we breathe?

What is infused in these bodies that we exist in?

The single source that infuses all of us is a vast source of love.

And as it expresses out as each one of our beings,

It also expresses out as every creature,

Every plant,

Every atmosphere,

Every sun that runs every galaxy.

That source has a singular focus,

Life,

Love,

Expansion.

And those aren't separate.

For fish,

It is the ocean that they breathe and they are surrounded by that energy of love.

For us,

It is the air that we breathe,

Infused with that love.

So we are receiving it whether we recognize it or not,

And how beautiful and wonderful that is,

Because sometimes we don't recognize it in every moment.

But let us recognize it now as we breathe in that energy.

And after we have that full inhale of breath,

We draw in more of that energy and we follow that energy to where it connects in our own being and we find that very like energy,

That resonating energy.

And when we have done that and those energies touch,

They merge together because they're the same,

From the same source.

So we are generating and receiving that love energy at all times.

We let it fill us.

And as we recognize that that energy is not rejected,

But merged with our own,

We become aware that we are touching the very source of our own being.

We're breathing it in and we're breathing it out.

And like an infinity loop,

We're bringing it into our bodies,

Resonating with it,

Giving it back.

Just imagine that infinity loop where you bring that breath in and that energy in,

It touches the love that you are and is expressed back out.

And this is our connection,

Continuously moving and continuously abiding in us and around us.

And we just keep that energy moving in our connection to it,

Recognizing that.

And as we begin to recognize that,

We understand how the present moment is the infusion of ourselves and others with love.

The present moment is love and there is no separation.

There's only forgetting,

The lack of recognition of it.

And whether I remember it or I forget it,

It's still there,

Always happening,

Always moving.

And the pleasure is mine to enjoy or to forget for a moment.

And it's okay to forget for a moment that I'm surrounded in love and that I'm a being of love.

Because evolution of our beings is the continuous remembrance,

The waking up,

And the remembering,

And the realizing like,

Oh yeah,

Wow,

I've been lost in thought,

Or I haven't been recognizing that in this moment.

How cool that I'm now aware of that,

And I can engage in this awareness,

And I can hold it for as long as I can.

And then maybe an hour later I go,

Oh my gosh,

I did it again.

But that's okay,

Because it's just remembering that this is always continuously flowing.

And when I interact with other beings from this state of continuous flow,

I recognize that they too are in this continuous flow,

And we can operate together in that space.

So let us all imagine in this moment the breathing in of that energy,

It going into the center of our heart being,

And then extending out to everyone else that we're with right now.

And we'll extend this further to the world,

But first we'll extend it to one another.

And we breathe in the shared infusion of love.

We merge our hearts together,

These different aspects of Source connecting together,

Having the history,

The experience of all of us.

And not just from this moment,

Because as we are connecting to our own Source Being,

We recognize that we have all been here since the beginning of time,

That there was no beginning of time,

There was only stillness.

And stillness moved,

And when stillness moved,

It recognized itself,

It didn't judge itself,

It didn't say,

My God,

How long have I been still and not paying attention?

It just recognized movement,

It recognized its own being,

And we were there for that.

And more was created from that recognition,

And the desire to recognize as much as possible about its loving self,

And it generated worlds and beings on those worlds.

And that's how you became to exist here.

So is our existence enough?

Oh yeah.

Only our little egos sometimes say,

Wow,

You know,

I'm not enough.

But that ego doesn't recognize that it was born from stillness,

That it was born from Source.

And that it has participated in the expansion of the universe since the beginning of time.

And that your life on this planet is an expansion of the universe.

Can you love all the expressions of yourself and others?

Can you build towards that?

And that makes the struggle to love so beautiful,

Because then it's real when you're able to do it.

When you've held the space of hurt or wound,

Of loss,

Of abandonment,

When you've held that space and recognized it,

And then recognized to love yourself through that,

And to love others,

It's creating at the same time,

It's creating a world that has the capacity to love itself.

And as you love those aspects of yourself,

That struggle shifts to ease,

Because it's not hard to love you.

When you come from this still loving Source inside yourself,

It's fully accepting.

And oh,

It's accepted so much over lifetimes.

And with every moment of acceptance came joy right behind it.

I can love me.

I can love that.

So everything that I see outside of me,

That I don't like,

Is an opportunity for me to go to my Source inside and love whatever disconnect that is.

And what joy that can bring,

And what clarity that can bring on moving forward in our lives.

It's not about what I acquire in this lifetime,

It's how much I expand the love of myself in this lifetime.

Because that is God,

Loving God.

That is the Universe,

Loving the Universe.

So let's sit in this stillness inside of ourselves,

Keeping in mind that infinity loop that goes from me loving me,

To you loving you,

And me loving me,

And you loving you,

And then we loving we,

And we loving we,

And then it moves to this place of perfect stillness,

Where there's just loving,

Because there isn't you and me,

There's just loving,

And the one being is still.

And we build in this stillness,

We build that energy in ourselves,

Letting it fill our entire bodies,

And we merge into it,

Ever how we've observed it.

We move from observation into integration,

Becoming the stillness,

Becoming absolutely loving,

Being,

Being love,

And we sit in that,

Being love,

And from this space,

We share that love to the world.

We begin to move that energy by dropping our barriers,

Merging so completely with it,

And extending it fully to every being on this planet.

We don't concern ourselves with judgment.

Who would we deny this love to?

No one.

We wouldn't deny it to ourselves,

We wouldn't deny it to another being,

And as we extend this out,

Stillness moves,

And stillness recognizes,

And we are the light of this world,

And the light is coming in us,

And coming from us,

And it is shared at such a vibrational level,

That it doesn't matter if you're saying thank you for someone pouring you a cup of water,

You're saying I love you,

I unconditionally love you.

And in this space of unconditional love,

We recognize every being that we've ever connected to,

Every loved one that has been in our lives,

And we recognize that that love is ever-present,

It is not lost,

That in this space,

We're aware of them,

And they are aware of us,

And we feel them,

And we also touch every place where we have felt disconnected or lost,

And we allow their presence that is eternal to touch those places in us,

And we reach into our own souls and find where we have felt disconnected from love,

And we heal each one of those disconnected places with the recognition that we are love,

And that we are not disconnected from ourselves,

And we are not disconnected from others,

And by having a strong connection to ourself,

To this timeless stillness,

We're okay when someone for a moment,

Or a lifetime,

Rejects us.

They're learning to love themselves,

And I'm learning to love myself.

We're creating a world of unconditional love,

And it starts with me,

And loving myself,

And recognizing that source of infinite love within me,

And I will never leave me or forsake me,

No matter what I do.

I love myself,

And should you for a time need to leave me or forsake me,

I'm okay because I love myself,

And I love you with this love that doesn't obligate you,

That doesn't pull need from you,

And from this space of unconditional self-recognition and self-acceptance,

We are existing in the presence of the love that we are,

And feel free to bring in anything that has felt unloved inside yourself,

And from this space,

It doesn't have to justify itself,

It doesn't have to be fixed,

Just brought into the vast,

Spacious,

Loving awareness that you are,

And we'll hold this space together as each of us wishes the most wonderful unconditional love to one another,

And to ourselves,

And we hold this space together so that whatever you bring into this space is loved by you,

By source,

And by one another,

And as we continue to do this,

We recognize that this is stillness,

And in stillness there is movement,

And as stillness recognizes the movement of energies that you show it,

Whether they're an emotion,

A thought,

A memory,

Stillness recognizes those movements,

And creation is happening,

And creation is the transformation of energy,

And as a living,

Breathing source of creation that you are,

This is your natural state,

And at any point you can move into creation by touching into the stillness that you are,

And moving an energy,

And that energy can be a feeling,

Or a thought,

Or a memory,

And it can be loved,

Because your source energy that you are is love,

And there is nothing that it does not love.

The source recognizes there's only one power,

There's only one transformation,

There's only one,

And we know the universe is loving,

Because you are loving,

And you choose love,

So if you choose love,

The universe is loving,

And as you continue to love yourself,

Allow this just generously flow from your center of your being to the planet,

Letting source decide where it goes,

We're not worrying about controlling it,

And the funny thing is,

Is as we share it,

It doesn't reduce in its capacity,

Because it's not an energy of just mine that I'm sharing,

We are sharing from the infinite pool that's source,

And as source loves source,

It fills itself up,

So extend it to the circle that you are personally connected to,

The beings in your presence,

The beings in your life,

The beings in your history,

Your vicinity,

Your community,

Your frequency is affecting the fabric of the universe,

And from this present moment,

We touch the fabric of the universe,

Where there is no difference in time,

And we share this with our past selves,

And with our future selves,

Because there's only the present moment,

So the past and the future are this moment,

And where we did not have the awareness of our connection,

And it created an area of healing for us,

We extend that love to that area,

And we are in the presence of love,

And we are in the presence of our own being,

Which is love,

We are love.