L♥VE has something to tell...

...when we get to the heart of the matter, the center purpose of our lives is to simply love, to love with arms wide open, to love with mind, body and spirit. Love at its core is the most powerful spiritual path one can journey on and seems to be the most elusive. We must be missing something because we keep getting love all wrong? We fall in love and out of love over and over. We get love sick at the onset, and heart broken when it fails. We have all been wounded by love and have been the one doing the wounding. It rips us up, turns us inside out and burns us to a crisp, yet we keep asking for more...

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...the power of love is so encompassing and overwhelming that it can sweep us away by its beauty and power. It can feel like a fire burning into our very souls. Love can make all other things in life pale in comparison. If Love can move mountains, then I would expect love can do just about anything at all. Are we afraid of its power or are we ready to be taken by love all the way? All we have to do is look at our life history to discover the answer.

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...when I look at how we speak about love and discovered that our thinking about love has negative connotations. We say "your love sick" and "love is blind." When you fall in love your friends say "be careful, be smart, cover your bases." Why do we relate love to an illness or something to be cautious with like a ticking time bomb? With these kinds of projections on love, how could we possibly make love last? We have already begun the journey with a handicap. We have failed before we have even taken our first step.

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...when I was a kid in Sunday school I was told God is Love. They never said God loves and then falls out of love ... or God loves sometimes and sometimes not, or loves with conditions. So if God is a living example of overwhelming unconditional love why is it we can't get it right. Is it because God's love is blind?

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...i looked at how we fall in love. When we fall in love we see perfection in the other person. We are blown away by the connection, the power, the intensity, the beauty. We see the truth of that person, not the illusion. We are seeing this person as God sees this person. God does not see us linked to our past, our mistakes, our reactions or programming. All these negatives are just conditions caused by simply being human. We don't get through life without a few bumps. The Dalai Lama says that all people are good at heart and that it is simply their hard situations that make them who they are. Is the Dalai Lama Love sick, blinded by love? Hey if that is the case, I want to experience the world like he does.

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...why do we keep letting the insidious negative programming of this world sneak in and open our physical eyes and close our hearts, ending our blissful blindness? Why do we allow ourselves to see perceived faults and react out of past experience? I am no expert in love, but I bet it has something to do with the fear of intimacy... You know... In-to-me-see. ^^ Love brings a brilliant piercing light into any relationship in which every corner of our being can be pulled out and examined by those who love us. Love is the purest form of spiritual awakening. Do we really want to become spiritually awakened? Do we really want to be really seen by another? Are we afraid to merge, like God merges with us?

...then I notice another pattern many of us seem to have... we doubt love. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar speaks about doubt and he says, "If you observe the nature of doubt, it is always about something that is positive. You never doubt what is negative. You know this from your own experience... If someone says "I love you very much" you say "really?" But if someone says. "I hate you" you never say "Do you really?" Understanding your doubt as questioning the positive and having confidence in what is negative, and knowing that you are having doubt, there must be something good present. Once you cross this barrier of doubt, then further progress comes." The Star Elder say something similar. They say "Doubt always follows truth. Doubt is the marker to remind you that you just had a powerful truth!"

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...love is a force to be reckoned with. It will keep searching for an open conduit in which to express itself totally. If we open the rear escape door in relationship, called doubt or fear, love is going to leave quickly to find another willing person to express blinding love through. If we apply our past wounds to the present, we break the spell love has on us and create the problem we had hoped to avoid. We may feel temporally safe from a possible hurt by pulling back, but soon we discover we are lonely and out there again searching for love.

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...one thing I have learned over and over, spiritual awakening does not come to those who play it safe! Spiritual awakening is full of risks and is a bit like being pushed off a cliff. The falling is great as long as you forget to hit the ground. So close your eyes and go blind to the fact that the ground is down there somewhere and jump without hesitation.

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A line in one of my favorite prayers is "May I have the eyes to see as God sees, May I have the heart that Loves like God Loves." I know God loves me no matter what I do, good, bad (my judgment by the way) and otherwise. So If I want to love as God Loves... hey I got to get back to being love sick, blind, and under the spell love can bring.... and stay there! Thank God for a great example ... Love is blind and I hope I never wake up. ^^

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behind open door

sometimes this meekness sentiment never came out of non-existence! that days when you feel like you detest the whole world, your surroundings and everybody else. i once thought of it... some people been asking how i've been... that to sad extent it's the moment i want to keep in silent, times that i wanna live life bein discreet about my profile and to where i am now or my plans ahead... at times i feel like am a deaf-mute, numb and never cared at all. simply because i don't wanna be bothered of the thoughts of other people's negativeness.

so thanks to those few people i entrust my life, for the ones who believed in me, appreciates and listen. .. who never gets out of nowhere, who would always there when you needed. i appreciate that much, although time is running fast, in months or years to come, i know we'll be grown ups again, experiencing the ups and downs in life...

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recently, my back aches as well as my chest pain attacked once in a while. i'm bit it was due to anxiety. coz looking back and scrutinizing what's with my present situation equals (=) a pretty hard decision. sometimes the feelings seemed flattering me but in back of those things, _ just one move you'll surely lose the game! i know you don't understand me (for now) but one thing's for sure, it's irresistible. haha get it? hmp, anyway, i'll change the topic, since this requires some deep analysis... (i'll write back the details soon once i've decided)_

hmmp. this month is full of traveling hours. behind pressures, time management is always a must. and... i miss the chance bein with my bros starting off _monday coz i was in N.C.R. ... i miss the night life over DC and i know sometime tomorrow will not be enough to feed my desires. *sigh* wish i could have a longeeeeer vacation! i just wanna get out in here... _just counting my few more weeks, days, hours, minutes, & seconds...

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hmp, what's new with my bookshelf this time? hmp... ah yadah! i bought some novelty books, one written by Anne Rice entitled "the Witching Hour", some Philippine Ghost Stories particularly the "House of Horror", and hmp of course, my ultimate fave_ Bo Sanchez' "Simplify and Live a Good Life"... and here i'm picking one of his great piece...

it was "keep looking for the open door" that says_

_you won't close every sale, no matter what you do.

some people won't like you.

in fact, along the way, you'll get lambasted, criticized, ridiculed.

in a word, you'll be rejected. hmp, we'll REJECT the REJECTION! most likely.

because somewhere near that door that just shut you'll find an open door. so keep on looking.

_one day, a man was taking a train ride feeling dejected because he wasn't accepted at this writing job he was applying for. the editor who evaluated his work said he "lacked creativity." on that train ride, this man was doodling in his little note pad & a little mouse was born on that piece of paper. that mouse's name was "Mickey", and that man's name was Walt Disney.

_do you think Albert Einstein was esteemed by all his teachers & classmates alike? Think again. As a kid, one professional said Albert's grade were very mediocre, he was the most likely student to amount to nothing.

_Thomas Edison had more than a thousand failed experiments before he invented the light bulb. It was he who said, "One greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always try just one more time."

_i've also failed many times than Edison. At any one point in my life, i simply could have given into my fears and threw in the towel and said, "that's it. i'm quitting." but i don't have to follow my fears if the deepest voice in my heart says, "Go on. Do what's right."

_in any job, whether it be sales or accountancy, rejection is a given and might as well as finding your right mate. it's merely a question of when it will come, for whom and how you're going to respond it.

_the best responce is to keep on looking for the open door.

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and be it noted guys... NO ONE MAKE YOU FEEL INFERIOR WITHOUT YOUR CONSENT!!!

Live up a good life guys!

_Ash

test of sincerity

Jack wakes up with a huge hangover after attending his company's Christmas Party. Jack is not normally a drinker, but the drinks didn't taste like alcohol at all. He didn't even remember how `he got home from the party. As bad as he was feeling, he wondered if he did something wrong.

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Jack had to force himself to open his eyes, and the first thing he sees is a couple of aspirins next to a glass of water on the side table. And, next to them, a single red rose! Jack sits up and sees his clothing in front of him, all clean and pressed. He looks around the room and sees that it is in perfect order, spotlessly clean. So is the rest of the house. He takes the aspirins, cringes when he sees a huge black eye staring back at him in the bathroom mirror. Then he notices a note hanging on the corner of the mirror written in red with little hearts on it and a kiss mark from his wife in lipstick: "Honey, breakfast is on the stove, I left early to get groceries to make you your favorite dinner tonight. I love you, darling! Love, Jillian"

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He stumbles to the kitchen and sure enough, there is hot breakfast, steaming hot coffee and the morning newspaper. His son is also at the table, eating. Jack asks, "Son... what happened last night?"

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"Well, you came home after 3 A.M., drunk and out of your mind. You fell over the coffee table and broke it, and then you puked in the hallway, and got that black eye when you ran into the door ".

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Confused, he asked his son, "So, why is everything in such perfect order and so clean? I have a rose, and breakfast is on the table waiting for me??"

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His son replies, "Oh THAT!... Mom dragged you to the bedroom, and when she tried to take your pants off, you screamed, "Leave me alone, I'm married!!"

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This inspirational story of true love proves to us that love can come when you least expect it. That no matter what you do, either temptation will come to you, your Love to the person that was planted within will stay and never get lost. If you think that the circumstances in your life will inhibit any chance of finding the love of your life, you may be in for a surprise. So, LOVE and never give up!

♥_Ash