Chuck’s Place: Being In Love

Love comes in many shapes and forms... - Photo by Jan Ketchel
Love comes in many shapes and forms…
– Photo by Jan Ketchel

To be a being in love is the ultimate journey. To embody love in all perceptions, in all judgments, in all reflections, and in all actions is the goal. Behind all fear love awaits. Love is full acceptance of all that was and all that is. Love rests upon the truth; it’s all that matters.

Love is not a merchant. It seeks nothing in return; it simply loves. Love is not a pushover. If the truth is that it must kill, it does so with love. This is the lesson of the Gita, a battle guided by Krishna.

Life is hardly the absence of struggle and battle. The challenge is to be a being who comes from the place of love in every role, good or bad. Love has no attachments; love simply is. Can you find it in everything and everyone?

Love seeks not, especially to change another. Love simply accepts the full truth of the other. In full acceptance may lie the truth that it’s not time to meet, that you both need other things. You are in love if you allow for the full acceptance of this truth, as you quietly grant each other the necessary journeys you each must take.

Love with another asks for nothing but the full truth of another, without expectation. This is the place of highest meeting. When two truths align there is meeting. One must give oneself fully to the truth and see what’s there. Meetings can be brief, extended, or not at all, not in this life. But a being in love is always in love. In the fullness of truth one is never alone.

Love is the deepest connection to all that is. One is never alone in love; love encompasses all. Nothing is rejected in love, especially the self, the greatest love of all. This is not narcissism, for a being in love knows the necessity of complete self acceptance, the greatest challenge of all.

Love lets the other go... - Photo by Jan Ketchel
Love lets the other go…
– Photo by Jan Ketchel

Love smiles at the phrase, “getting my needs met.” Love admits there is much to be discovered and much to be experienced. But love also knows the folly of asking another to meet a need. True love may need to venture into the vulnerability of such a request, as the journey of love insists we drop all defenses. But love also knows that only true meetings are real. Role playing is play, but true meeting requires no rehearsal, it simply aligns. This is the substance of true meetings, and precious is that substance.

Yet all meetings are meetings of love. To always be in love and ask for nothing is the challenge. To radiate the fullness of love without expectation, in all situations, is the path of heart. Meetings and mergers in love create growing consciousness of the oneness of all “things.” In the patience and steadiness of this growing awareness we consolidate being in love, gently diving deeper into the unfolding adventures of oneness in love.

To be a being in love is to be a warrior of the highest rank!

Love,
Chuck

Soulbyte for Wednesday March 4, 2015

Curative measures abound. Someone always has a cure to offer. Someone seems to have gotten the right answer, the perfect response, just what you’ve been searching for. But alas, there is no true cure for any ill or disturbance that does not already lie within. The perfect cure is always in alignment with the deeper self, with the self that knows the reason for the ill to begin with. All healing begins not with the cure but with the question why. All healing begins with and within the self in accepting the why and working with it.

Sometimes the why is so deeply hidden that it takes many years to discover it, but that does not make the journey any harder, in fact, it makes the search that much richer! Seek within and your journey will be one of deep and lasting healing and in the process you will embark on the journey of a lifetime that will be fulfilling, not only for this lifetime but all to come.

Soulbyte for Tuesday March 3, 2015

How will today compare to yesterday? It is a new day, and yet it is a continuation of life. Everything that happened yesterday still holds value as it guides you into today. Do not forget where you have been, but do not stay behind, stuck in an old place, while life moves forward. Take your lessons into a new day. Turn them over and look at them in a new light. In the freshness of a new dawn notice how different they appear, as if they have suddenly transformed during the night.

Everything changes. Even problems have the capacity to offer you new guidance as you investigate them with new eyes and breathe new life into them. Life is fluid. Stagnancy is only a state of mind. And yet in stagnancy, like in a new day, come the jewels of progress if you care to look upon them as such. Today glistens with promise. Do you see?

Soulbyte for Monday March 2, 2015

Why do things happen to us? What are the meanings of the events of our lives? They are our soul’s attempts to guide us and alert us to our journey’s unfolding. Though often taken in a negative manner they are meant to teach us and move us along on our journeys. When our soul comes calling it is to wake us up to the real issues that confront us.

And how does the soul call? In a myriad of ways. For no two people will the soul call in the same manner, yet the call of the soul is undeniable. Even if we do not hear it or if we do not take it as such, our soul’s call will jolt us, get our attention, frighten us, or even overjoy us. The methods of the soul are as varied as people in the world and yet the intent of the soul is always the same: to aid us on our evolving journey through our time on earth and into what waits beyond.

To heed the call of the soul is to take responsibility for one’s own journey, to be a mature being of skill and daring, equal to the test being presented, ready for life’s fulfillment. If one does not heed the call of the soul, one is equally gifted and equally guided. Though the journey will be quite different the final destination is the same. The choice is how do you wish to journey? As a soul mate, aware of your partner, or as a solitary being seeking always the soul mate who walks beside you every moment of your life? How you choose to live your life is up to you. Awake or asleep, the dream is the same.

Chuck Ketchel, LCSWR