One of the most challenging aspects of ones spiritual path is learning to open ones heart totally and absolutely. For most of us, we give our love solely to those people who we deem worthy of our love, who we feel we owe love to, or, those whom we feel are appropriate to love. The operative words here are: deem worthy, owe, and appropriate. Love is not conditional. If we want to open our hearts it means that we must let go of all the conditions that we hold so dearly to, like those in the above paragraph. I know it is challenging to give our love to our family and our beloved when we hold so many resentments and petty angers toward them. That is why forgiveness becomes such a key factor in our spiritual path. Through forgiveness we can let go of our desire to manipulate and punish those we care for the most using our love. The more love you put out the more your level of consciousness will shift. When you exude love, you become so high, it feels like bliss. Experiencing the state of enlightenment, to be light perceiving light, involves an opening of the heart that exceeds that which the rational mind thinks is physically possible. Sheri Rosenthal DPM
sherirosenthal.comOriginally Posted on 5/11/2005 8:23:03 PM
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