Love is the spaciousness that is full of possibility; unconditional love is what is present when we drop the mind's conditioning.
Here is something to contemplate. It is we who give "God" conscious expression and the experience of life in physical form. It is we who give "God" purpose and meaning. It is we who give "God" an opportunity for relationship and contribution. It is we who give "God" the experience of growth and evolution. It is we who give "God" the opportunity to experience love or not by our choices.
The lynchpin is our primary belief about our relationship to life, to love, to "God." It carries with it a primary fear. My fear is shame and humiliation of being a "phony", a hypocrite. It also shows us our greatest expression of self-love. Mine is humility which means living, speaking only truth.
Self-love is the commitment to life, not to a particular practice or an experience. There is nothing to "fix" or "heal." The commitment is a willingness to take responsibility for the life we have created. What ways are you contributing to what you are complaining about? Relax into your perceptions, the insights will come. The answers are always within as to what we are projecting. Truth, understanding, wisdom, deep knowing are of the heart that "sees" all, beyond the "facts" of the five senses or cognitive analysis. In this way, we are responsive; active receptivity as a conduit of love.
The choice in each moment is "yes" or "no" to love, self-love. Self-love is being wide open to life - all of it. Life obliges us to die to the old and rebirth ourselves over and over again. This is why I treasure seeing the turkey vultures around our house; they are a constant reminder of rebirth when we soar with the unseen currents of life.
Alexander's mother died peacefully the week before Easter. It came to me that at a very deep level we don't grieve death; we grieve that they didn't consciously live their totality of being.
Universal Leadership, Leading as Love, is self-love, integrated wholeness of personal leadership and authority that enables collective leadership to actively co-create a thriving life for all. Universal Leadership serves that part of you that is a radiant, eternal expression of source, the love of spirit that is the core of your being. To co-create we must be fully present in the now as loving awareness, relaxed openness. No planning. No goals. No expectations. No needs or wants. Life unfolds moment by moment. Universal Leadership allows us to go beyond what we believe is possible. Only two things to remember: self-love and it's all a mirror.
There are no frameworks, structures, concepts, steps, striving for self-love; it is an open-minded and open-hearted process of exploration and discovery of what life is reflecting back to us. A "marker" - not goal - is a place of neutrality, equanimity in the experience of life as it unfolds, where the only desire and choice is to be present as love. Without spirit - the infinite loving awareness that we are - we cease to exist.
I stand for compassionate truth. I am here to call forth and witness the conscious re-emergence of spirit in matter, merging the sacred with the secular. I am here to reflect your radiance and to approach everything from the perspective of self-love for you personally and organizationally as leaders. I am here to walk with you in a process of mutual self-discovery as you midwife your remembrance that you are infinite loving awareness, the full expression of your totality of being.
We are the heroes of our story. Discover, embrace and be the greatest expression of yourself. Put your attention, your love, on the truth of who you are and the rest will take care of itself. Self-love is all we ever really seek.
Here in the United States this weekend we are celebrating Memorial Day. No matter where we are, let us all celebrate by committing to fully remember and live who we are - the relaxed stillness of loving awareness expressing freedom, peace, joy, and wisdom.
The divine in me honors the divine in you!
Namasté!
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Lucira Jane Nebelung is a Faculty member of the Center for Leadership Studies, The Graduate Institute, and Founder & Principal of "Leading as Love". She wrote in from Norwich, Connecticut Area.
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