The Power Of Love

“Only time can heal your broken heart, just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.”  –Miss Piggy.

“Undoubtedly the largest four letter word in the English language, love, has been spindled, folded, twisted, and mutilated more than any other state of being on earth. Why? Because it is way too vast to fit inside our little conceptual boxes of how it should act, how it should look, what it should feel like, and with whom and how it should be shared. Trying to control Love is a folly. The joy, peace, and the presence of Love are interchangeable concepts with God. The problem with words and concepts are that we often mistake them as the thing itself. Our concept of Love is just that, a concept.”(Excerpt from the Nature of Reiki: A Path of Inclusion) It seems we have fallen in love with a concept, an imposter if you will, of something much greater and more real than words can describe. In fact, it seems the more we try to describe it the further away from it we get from it. Then we wonder why our divorce rate is about 50% for the first time marriages, 60 to 67% for second time marriages, and up to 74% for third time marriages. 

According to the book Angel Answers, there are 137 different types of love. Of these, the book continues, humans only experience about five or six. The question then becomes, can we let go of our concept? Can we learn to move past our conditioned mind and explore new possibilities from an experiential perspective? Can we be open enough, vulnerable enough, and willing to work through our mistakes so that we can discover a Love beyond our conditioning?

I realize that may sound a bit crazy or absurd. It may even sound scary. But really, when you take a close look at it, what’s scary is living in a world where we have fallen into the hypnotic trance of a conditioned mind that wounds, and even kills people in the name of love. Do we really want to continue living this way?