In the beginning...

...there was love. For a baby, love is a necessity. But for adults too, love is what truly makes us feel alive and wonderful. The definition of love is about intending happiness. This is readily known and commonly experienced in romantic relationships to varying degrees as well as with family and friends. Mutual connections with people in our lives--the transference of positive energy, intention and attention, as one friend mentioned to me, "beneficial interaction."

Without a life partner, it is possible to love yourself with spiritual intention and attention to your life circumstances. In fact, this self love is also necessary to cultivate if you are in a relationship. Sometimes us humans get close to unconditional love, though mostly we have a myriad of thoughts and feelings connected to what we experience and give as love. These could be in the form of specific expectations or grandiose projections, either way, limitations and judgements arise from such non-awareness. And, it's easy to get carried away and act blindly when excitement and curiousity are high in a new relationship. Self-knowledge from a place of love and compassion assists us in being loving in simpler and more authentically profound ways with our family and friends, fellow humankind, animals and insects, things and life energy.

I need to thank all the wonderful people in my life who resonate with me in love: in the beginning, in the middle, and at the end. There is no end, there is now. I am practicing love.

Love, compassion, simplicity, patience, ease.
Intention, attention, awareness.