25 Mikee D.
Melad
17,2014
3F PHARMACY
November
Philosophy
LOVE is EVERYTHING
Love has become a commodity. We seek love as if it were something we could pick off a shelf,
purchase and own. It has become something, which, once found, must be proved, questioned and
analyzed. It deceives us in films and seduces us in advertisements. If only, we think, we could fall in love
our lives would be complete. To fall in love is an odd concept in itself; this suggests an action, an accident.
We trip up, its beyond our control, its too late, theres no going back. We fall into the abyss, never to
return. We lose ourselves, we confuse ourselves and we forget who we are. We have fallen for each
other. I am yours, you are mine. To many, love has become a game.
Love at its very purest state, is energy, a vibration and a way of being. We come from love and it is
Love to which we will return. Our earliest impulse is to love and our last fleeting moments will be spent in a
state of love. Love cannot be bought or sold. You cannot own love; you cannot acquire or lose it. We
cannot look for love in the hope that it will complete us, because we are made of love it is, at our very
essence, which we already are. Remove the outer layers built up since childhood, peel away the masks
and fears and prejudices. Scrape away the ego and the grudges and the false perceptions of ourselves and
others and what you are left with at the core, like a single flame of a candle, unwavering and glowing bright;
is love. Love is what and who we are at our source. In order to fully love each other, we must first know the
love inside ourselves. How can we offer our love to another unconditionally when we havent nurtured and
recognized it within ourselves?
Love, in its true essence, is compassionate. It is the state of being we find ourselves in when we
see each other as equal and acknowledge that we all suffer, sometimes. We all want to love and be loved.
We all want comfort and safety. Love recognizes this and offers itself with no question no demands
because it is the natural energetic state we are in when we unite with each other as a connected
consciousness. Love unites us yet sets us free. To know love is to be free of the shackles of expectation
because real love is beyond expectation and demand. To love ourselves, and therefore one another truly
means to understand that we are all free and when we offer our love as a gift, it neednt be with the aim to
receive and to confirm or qualify or praise. It must be with the hope that we are simply sharing the love,
which exists within us. When we give to receive, it becomes a transaction.
When we love for the sake of love, it transforms us the sun does not shine on the earth in order
for us to give something back. The sun keeps shining relentlessly and selflessly, despite of our actions and
us. If we think of love like the nourishment of sunshine, there to give life, to warm us and sustain us, we can
more deeply understand the true nature of unconditional love. I am learning every day about love in all
parts of my life; that the love I have for myself is ultimately a reflection of the love that I receive. That love is
that feeling of peace when you are present and grateful for everything and everyone in your life. That to
love another truly is to see a part of yourself in them and therefore to see that person as imperfect just as
you are. I accept myself with all my flaws, so why would I not accept anothers? I have learned that love
does not always have to be frantic and intense. It can be found in the moments of silence and space, the
gaps in between which allow it the conditions to grow. I see that love is fearless and hopeful you just have
to look within and find that place which allows for true love to thrive.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not
dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not
delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, and always
perseveres. Love never fails. (Corinthians 13:48)
