True Light is a Gentle Love -Daily Meditation 12.27.23
Today’s quotation:
The true Light is a gentle love that, rising in you, causes you to look at the world with understanding, compassion, and respect. When you respect the souls of your brother and sister, you respect their lives in every way. This gentle spirit, this respect for one for another, must come. For this is the generation of the one true Light, and this true light is that of love. -White Eagle
Today’s Meditation:
I like the idea of gentle love, which allows me to see the world “with understanding and compassion and respect.” It’s something I aspire to, but not something I can say I have- or show- all the time. I think my goal is to continue showing it more each day. If I can show such a gentle love for ten minutes today, then perhaps I’ll be able to show it for fifteen tomorrow and twenty the next day. Or perhaps not. I know I’ll keep trying to show it as much as possible.
Love is what we’re here for–to give and receive it. Love is a part of ourselves that we can share with others to lighten the burden on others, give them hope, and make them feel a connection to other human beings, to make them feel loved and lovable. As a recipient of love, we have the opportunity to allow others to give in a loving way, an action that helps them to know that they’re contributing to the positive side of the world, that they’re giving the best they can to others who are willing to accept it.
Of course, we’re not talking about “romantic” love here. We’re talking about a person’s love for a person, no matter what, the unconditional love that heals and makes them stronger. “Romantic” love is something different, a sort of connection that isn’t simply love but something more. And that’s part of our problem with finding this gentle love for others–we expect love to be something different than it is, so we’re often disappointed or sabotage it with unrealistic expectations that can’t be fulfilled.
So our goal, if we want love to be a priority in our lives, is to love. To love gently, truly, and without condition or expectation of anything in return. Nothing less than this is not love; we want to love truly, completely, and bravely. We want to share the “love that is real,” and if we wish to do so, we must put that love out there and accept it when it comes our way.
Questions to consider:
What do you consider to be true love?
Why do so few people strive for that gentle love that will cause them to see the world differently?
Do you agree that there are “no different categories of love“?
For further thought:
There are no different categories of love. There isn’t one kind of love between a mother and child, another between lovers, and another between friends. The love that is real is the love that lies at the heart of all relationships. That is the love of God, and it doesn’t change with form or circumstance.- Marianne Williamson
If you missed our last Daily Meditation, it is here.
