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God said:

No matter what another person does or doesn't do, you are not to curtail your love. Love is not to be freeze-dried. I speak of the love within you. You are not to cut notches in your heart. I am not saying that you are to spill your love upon everyone or anyone. You do not have to be in love with anyone, yet the love in your heart is to remain intact. You are not to feel that you owe love. You simply are not to deny the full bloom of love in your heart. The love in your heart is independent of circumstances. Be friendly to love.

You are so accustomed to thinking of focused love. I am speaking of the love in your heart. It is to exist. I am speaking of love itself. Love does not have to be focused. It just has to be.

We speak of love here, undefined love, for love cannot be defined, any more than I can be. Love is not to be forfeited. Would you ever want to cut Me off or contract Me or stuff Me away? Consider that I am the same as love. Do not snip off any of the love in your heart. Do not thwart the love in your heart.

Whatever life in the world holds for you or takes away, don't let it take away love from you. Love in sunlight. Love in rain and snow. Love from the mountain-top, and love from the valley. Love as you drive your car. Love as you walk. Keep love in mind.

You are a Being of Light who loves. Get that through your head. Love is to supersede all. Love does supersede all.

Even when you feel unloving, you can love.

Hear Me.

Love is not to be waited for. Love is not to be hamstrung. Love is to pulse with every beat of your heart. Love is what you are meant for. Love is your purpose. Love. Love your hands and everything they do. Love your tasks. Love those around you, and love those far away from you.

Love is all. Love is all that there is. And love is to be predominant in your life. Love getting up, and love going to sleep. Love even disturbances. Love disturbances. Love what disturbs you so your disturbances will become extinct.

A flower breaks through the soil of Earth, and you are to break through the perceived limitations of Earth.

Consider every being on Earth as a flower growing. Isn't it easy in your heart to love flowers? You don't have to pick them all. It's okay to have your favorites. And yet you love flowers. And so you love.

You are a being who loves. You never needed lessons in loving. Loving was and is your birthright. Sadly, in the world, you were given lessons in not loving, and you learned all too well. Re-educate yourself. Return to your natural state of love. You can do it. To love is truly easier than not loving. Your heart does not want to be barren of love. It wants to be full of love, and you want to be full of love, standing in love, giving in love, following love, endorsing love, giving and gaining in love.

Truly, what else is there to desire? Baubles instead of love? What substitute for love is there? What substitutes for love have you taken into your heart in place of love? Give up the substitutes, and reclaim your love. It is yours. It belongs to you. Open that heart of yours, and make it strong. Your heart can only be strong in love. Nothing equals love but love.

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Passion makes you weak. Dispassion is strength.
For your passion to be fulfilled, you have to depend upon so many things. Passion and self-reliance do not appear to go together. If you are passionate, you have to forget about being self-reliant. If you want to be self-reliant, you have to drop your passion. This is generally so
That which brings together these two completely different aspects in you, is your spirit. The same spirit that wants to be self-reliant is also passionate. It is only in spirituality that passion and dispassion can happen together. This is the rarest combination.
When you are dispassionate, you have strength, and strength is self-reliance. True self-reliance is realizing that nothing is excluded from the Self. And when you realize everything is part of the Self, then you can be passionate about everything! Even to fulfill your passion, you can only rely on the Self, for Self alone is non-changing.
In Truth, there is neither reliance nor passion. In one state, you can either be passionate or you can be self-reliant. But in an elevated state of consciousness, you can be neither, or both!
There are several types of dispassion:
  1. You are dispassionate because you realize the misery in the world. (You have a fear of misery.) The events in life -- the pain, the suffering one experiences or sees -- brings dispassion.
  2. The second type of dispassion is born out of the desire to reach something higher. Some consider dispassion as a path to enlightenment. If you renounce something here you gain something out there. Those who are seeking enlightenment practice austerities and take vows for a better place in heaven.
  3. The third type of dispassion comes out of wisdom or knowledge. A broader understanding of the transient nature of things brings a state of non-attachment to any events, objects, people or situations that lets you remain calm and unperturbed.
Divine love does not let the dispassion manifest. The attainment of love brings such bliss and such intoxication, it not only takes away your passion, but dispassion as well.
This is the problem with Art of Living members. Many feel they have attained the highest and remain blissed out! (laughter!)

- Sri Sri

John