August 26, 2003
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love me, love me not
In our world, love is an almost inaccessible experience. Everything is against it: morals, classes, laws, races and the very lovers themselves. If one part of our being longs to unite itself with another, another part rejects and excludes him or her. We become something we are not in order to “fit” nicely together. Thus our relationships are poisoned at the root.
I’ve previously shared with you about my insecurities in my fragmented self. My being divided between what I really am and what I imagine myself to be – an image dictated to me by family, class, school, friends, religion and lover. How do I express my femininity without manifesting myself in forms men have invented for me?
If you ask me, love is not a “natural” thing. It is the most human trait of all. Something that we have made ourselves and that is not found in nature. Something that we create, and destroy, every day. Love is a choice – a free choosing of our destiny, a sudden discovery of the most secret and fateful part of our being.
What we ask of love is that it give us a bit of true life. We want to escape the feeling of solitude yet we like to pretend that our thinking is wide-awake. We lose ourselves in the mirrors of reason. We dream with our eyes open not realizing the dreams of reason are intolerable. If I dare to love, I will first have to dare to be myself. I have to destroy the image in which I have been imprisoned. And then, perhaps, I will begin to dream once more with my eyes closed.
Can you feel the love tonight????
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there is so much waiting to be loved by you
‘love to start my day reading Eileen Caddy’s quote for the day
that can be found at : http://www.findhorn.org
Eileen Caddy Guidance for today… Today’s Date is: 27th August
Give thanks for everything. Keep your heart wide open and let your feelings of gratitude pour forth in an unending stream. There is so much to be grateful for. Gratitude keeps your eyes open to Me and to My wonders. Therefore you miss nothing and you see Me in all that is taking place. You know there is a pattern and plan running through your life; therefore nothing is by chance. Every contact is right, every action guided. You must have complete faith to be able to live in this way, faith that your life is being guided and directed by Me. It means you first have to surrender your all to Me to use as I will. You must learn that only when you give all do you receive all. You can only do it when you have learnt to love Me with all our heart, mind, soul and strength, for without love you cannot take these steps, you cannot live this life. So open your heart and love.
Eileen Caddy
From Opening Doors Within, a book with a meditation for each day of the year by Eileen Caddy, inserted on this web site by kind permission of publisher Findhorn Press . © Eileen Caddy 1987.
Wonderful blog as ever
Some love for you
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.
Tao Te Ching
Love yourself first – the rest will fall into place
And after knowing you for so long here, I know you have much love inside you 
You have forgotten the power of you being an artist. Is love not what you sculpt it to be?
hmmm… I think, if you have to compromise for love, it’s not love.
Be yourself Lotus – not the one you are supposed to be but the person you want to be – the one you hope to be. Love would be just a by-product of that journey/search.