Now how does love enter us?
It's through the breath.
It's not the only route.
But when you consider that the breath is part of what is connecting us to everything,
The breath,
As the universe breathes out,
We breathe in.
And we're already a form of love.
But we're integrating with everything else as we breathe in.
Fish aren't aware that they're in the ocean.
They're just breathing the water.
We forget that we're surrounded by breath.
And that breath is actually connecting us into the rhythm of the earth,
The rhythm of each other,
The rhythm of the eclipse,
And the rhythm of the universe.
The breath that is entering your nose is from the universe,
Not 30 feet away,
But the very start of creation as the universe expanded.
It is in our atmosphere.
And it is constantly loving us.
Self-recognition and the energy of recognition,
Because it is an energy.
And it is working with you,
Because you're recognizing it,
And it can recognize you.
And the most important,
Intimate relationship that we have is with ourselves.
So everything that you begin to recognize about you creates this energy of self-recognition and works with recognition.
Self-recognition is the expansion and evolution of the universe.
The very first thing the universe did,
First it was total stillness,
Centered still.
And then there was a movement.
And when stillness moved,
It self-recognized,
And creation began.
There's a direct link of that.
And recognition is so important in the expansion and the evolution of the universe,
Which you are.
That stillness is there,
And you can recognize that in whatever is happening on the outside.
Your breath can remind you to center and trust that center.
And even now,
As you center,
Trust that you are the one creating this beautiful space,
This intimate space of oneness and self-recognition.
Breathe in,
And that seed of love that allows an intimate,
Loving relationship with yourself,
Which is immediately an intimate and loving relationship with others,
And is immediately an intimate relationship with self-recognition.
The energy of recognition of who you are in this universe,
Because you are this universe.
The universe wants to recognize itself,
Because this is creation.
This is expansion.
Being out of thoughts of limitations,
Self-judgments,
And recognizing that the universe has embodied in human form to recognize itself functioning in the universe.
And that functioning is not about how much you can lift or walk or do.
It is how open and spacious you can be,
How you can recognize in yourself and in others the awareness of beauty.
Because then God sees itself in everything.
The universe sees itself and can love itself no matter what it looks like.
Does God love God?
And if universe is a better word,
Does the universe love the universe?
Only if you do.
And yes,
Because you do.
That's part of the recognition,
Is that life,
Which is love,
Breathed out.
And we are a part of that breath.
So when we breathe in,
We're connecting to our own exhale.
I know that is almost strangely unfathomable,
But think of it again as the infinity loop.
The stillness that is life,
That spawned everything,
Is also you.
And as that stillness breathes out,
And you are embodied in a physical body here,
And you breathe in,
You are sharing back and forth.
So yes,
You can trust you.
And yes,
We are here to love ourselves,
To allow God to love God.
And loving ourselves in spite of our thought,
Not our humanity.
Our humanity is exquisite.
The human body and its ability to heal,
To move,
To interact with other energies,
To see through eyes and feel and hear and sense and taste,
And to begin to recognize that beyond these five senses is the spirit energy which can feel another being and can feel God and can feel the universe and can love even when it's angry.
That's our divinity and humanity mixing.
So when we have a thought of anger or fear or shame or pleasure to enjoy,
That we can have those feelings and love each one of them.
Love the pleasure,
Love the anger,
Love the fear,
Choosing love every time because life is love and love is the life energy that we are expressing here.
And trusting ourselves because if the universe breathed out and extended itself into humanity and you are here as a part of that,
Who else could you trust more?
No one.
And this field of energy,
Of self-recognition is so important because the universe is asking,
Can you lead the way for people to recognize that they're perfectly okay as they are,
That they're accepted as they are,
That they are loved as they are?
And to do that,
The best way is to exemplify it,
To recognize your own place.
You are an extension of the universe of God on this planet.
And if you can love you in spite of all that your mind may say,
That you can go into the seat of love and say,
No matter my thoughts,
No matter my body,
No matter my circumstances,
No matter what I'm facing,
I can do it from the seat of love that I am,
Then God can love itself.
And that's the evolutionary place we are right now in awakening.
And you chose to self-love,
Which means that you showed up to say,
I'm going to love me,
I'm going to figure out how.
And that is God saying,
I can love God.
I can love me as I am.
Because when God,
When the universe,
When all that is breathed out and extended,
Everything spawned from that,
Everything that looks good and everything that looks bad,
Everything that seems one way or another,
But the constant state that is always flowing with that is love for itself.
So breathe in the energy that you have created and allow it to ease your body and your mind and your heart.
Let the heart that is speaking be felt because the words are spoken in feeling,
Not logic.
To live a life of love,
Closely related to who you actually are.
And let us all look at one another from the intimate love of ourselves.
Let us look at one another and recognize that same intimate state in each other and call for it from each other.
It is already being self-recognized in you.
So thank you.
Thank the One that we all are,
That each One showed up for the One and created and added to the energy of self-recognition.
So thank you.
