Love
for Free
“The
purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love
whoever is around to love.”
Kurt
Vonnegut
I know that sounds a bit
loosey-goosey, but it's not meant to be a motto for the free love
movement. Remember (if you're my age) that Stephen Stills song, “If
you can't be with the one you love, honey, love the one you're
with...” Well, that's not what I'm talking about, okay.
I think Vonnegut meant that wherever love comes from (he was not a
religious man), it needs to be unconditionally given or it's
meaningless. If we only love those who love us back, or those within
our kinship circle, then we are not practicing love.
In Matthew 5:46, Jesus is
quoted as saying, “If you love only those who love you, what reward
will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that?” Love
is not a commodity to be given and received so much as it is an
energy to be exuded. Located in the center of the chest, the energy
of the heart chakra, radiates out from the body front and back and is
a nourishing influence on everyone and everything that comes in
contact with it. When it is at its maximum length and width, it can
encompass the whole world. It is in no way selective.
Right now on planet
earth, a lot of people are practicing hate. Hatred for anyone who looks different from them, who has a different set of principles or
different religion. We are filling our atmosphere with vitriolic
hatred for one another. Like love, hatred is energetic, and we are
watching it spread around the planet and encompass many people in
many places. The only antidote to poisonous hatred is love—not
selective love, but ubiquitous, far reaching and unconditional love.
To practice such love, we have to be intentional about it. We have to
sit with ourselves and feel our heart chakra opening and expanding,
reaching out to surround this beautiful blue planet, and all its
people, and creatures, and landscapes with the green energy of the
heart.
I believe in the inherent
goodness of humanity. Yes, we have greed and viciousness and
free-floating anger, but we also have kindness and generosity and a
willingness to see the good in others. We can also see the good in
ourselves, and lean on that to help us get to love that's free and
unconditional. We have the solution to hate. It is love, overflowing
and shared with abandon. All we have to do is put it into practice.
In the Spirit,
Jane
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