Love and Attachment, Part 1: Love Is Love

I write these posts as much for myself as for anyone else, because when I ask a question of my Self, it’s like opening a tap. The water of deeper understanding pours through.

Recently, a friend told me he was trying to understand the difference between perseverance and obsession. Similarly, I sometimes ask myself when I’m persevering and when I’m being just plain stubborn.

The immediate answer that came to me was that perseverance is based on the energy of expansion, and applies in situations in which there is opportunity for growth, change or fulfillment. We sometimes need to keep trying, or simply wait, for the fulfillment to happen.

Obsession, on the other hand, is based on the energy of contraction. It’s hanging onto the past, to a situation that is over and where no opportunity for further growth exists. Stubbornness and resistance also fit that description. They are just refusing to accept, let go, and allow our feelings or our life to be transformed.

Love and Attachment

That’s a pretty good start, but it’s a little abstract. The next morning I was sitting on my balcony
when a more complete answer started coming to me. I took pen and paper and did what I call a writing meditation: I hear the language in my mind and write it down. Sometimes I write a question, and then write the answer as it comes to me. I’ll transcribe the meditation here so you can receive exactly what I did:

The difference between obsession and perseverance is the difference between love and attachment. Between faithfulness and fear. Human relationships contain both.

How do we know which is which?

Love expands. It makes our hearts feel bigger. It opens new worlds. It frees the beloved from our needs, our desires, to seek the fulfillment of his or her own.

Love wants the best for everyone involved. That includes the lover, and it includes the beloved.
To desire to be the Beloved of the one we love is natural. It is normal to seek love from those we love. But the lover rises above, goes beyond this desire – not annihilating it, but seeing it for what it is: human attachment.

In our souls, we love selflessly. We have so much love within us at all times that we don’t need anything else.

Ultimately, that state of endlessly abundant love is what we all seek to recreate here on Earth. When we encounter someone who draws that love out of us, we feel closer to our own source of love. We think it is because of the other person, but it’s not. It’s our own abundant energy of love that we feel as it flows out through our heart chakra toward the other.

You can experience this by thinking of anyone you love – not just as a lover, but as parent, child, or friend – and noticing the feeling in your body. Only our thoughts about the nature of our relationship with that person change our experience of love.

In its most pure essence, love is love is love.

Then I asked, “So if that is love, what is attachment?”

But this is long enough, so the answer will have to wait for the next post.

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Love, Light and Blessings,
Susan
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Who Says? My Sources and How They Speak to Me

Last time, I said I write about information received directly from my own inner sources.

"Who are those sources?" you might ask, and in fact, you should.

My primary source is what I call my higher Self, or God-Self -- my own individual ray of the Source or All-That-Is or, simply, God.

I access the wisdom of my Self through meditation, but just as often, it accesses me. I may be sitting on my balcony eating breakfast when I feel its presence pulling at me, calling. I stop to listen, ask questions, get answers, understand more deeply what we're doing here, how life works. Sometimes I write dialogues with the Spirit, as Neale Donald Walsh did in his Conversations with God books.

My second source of information are the higher beings that have guided and taught me throughout my life. Everyone has spirit guides; they can be thought of as a council of advisers. Some people say that spirit guides are all aspects of your own Self. In that we are all aspects of the same divine Source, this is ultimately true.

But I also know a few of my guides as individuated, conscious beings of much higher vibration and awareness than I yet have in this life. Others are highly accomplished souls with human identities I recognize, but who are now working on the other side. Some may be permanently ascended off the Earth, but others are taking a break and doing support work for those of us still embodied.

So I still call them all my guides, though only occasionally does a single being identify itself individually, often when I call on someone in particular. Nor do they take on a group identity such as Abraham, the group of higher beings channeled in the Abraham-Hicks writings.

This makes me just like all other beings in human form. We all have a higher Self, an aspect of the one big Source or God, which has developed our own, individual or individuated consciousness. We could call that Self "Big Me," and the human identity "Little Me." And we all have other beings in spirit form who guide and help us.

And then there are angels, and we have their help, too. Sometimes I call upon them for protection or to hold Light in a certain situation, but angels are not my specialty.

I have closer relationships with Ascended Masters, as they are sometimes called: Beings who used to take on human form, but have risen in vibration to a level where they no longer need to come to Earth to strengthen certain spiritual attributes or learn certain skills. Examples of ascended beings, as I prefer to call them (since the word “master” has connotations of domination and ownership) include Jesus, Sri Yukteswar, Yogananda, Buddha, St. Clair and St. Francis, and St. Germain (not the Catholic saint, but a spiritual master of that name). There are many others whom I don’t know.

What makes me different from many people, aside from the fact that I live in Panama, is just that I communicate with all these aspects of Divine Oneness easily, daily, and they have guided me through some profound inner experiences that led me to a higher state of awareness, or consciousness. So now it’s my role to share the information and inspiration of all sorts that I receive from the inner realm with others.

So I'm glad you stopped by. Come again soon.

Light, Love, Joy,

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