Open Your Heart to Love – All You Need is Love

“All you need is love;” is a well-liked phrase and song made popular by 60s British Band sensation the Beatles.  The title of this song has been used in pop culture for decades.    

I used to believe that phrases, such as “all you need is love,” was in essence, pitiful, sappy, and unrealistic.  I still thought it was the most insincere thing that I have ever heard.  I thought to myself, “I need more than that” and “People will say anything to get what they want.”  

Even as I was introduced to a broader spiritual philosophy, I recognized the immaturity in that thinking, but I still felt as though, “the all you need is love” talk was insincere.   How could people who are proponents of these “love teachings and philosophy” actually mean what they said?  From my point of view at the time, there was too much anger and heartache in the world.  And just as I had “believed” at the time, I would continuously find the hypocrisy in the individuals and become extremely disenchanted.  Now, as I have grown on the path of enlightenment, I understand why I would always see the hypocrisy.  I would always see it because it is law.  By way of the principle expectation and the law of attraction pulled my vibration was not aligning with love but with finding the hypocrisy in those who say, “all you need is love.”  I would find hypocrisy, because I was looking for it. 

After more growth on the path of enlightenment, I soon discovered the true source of my resistance to open my heart and life to love.  My problem was that I was too busy looking at other people.  I expected people to live and proclaim within their own lives what they said and when I found any inconsistencies ( I found inconsistencies because I was looking for them) then I latched on to these inconsistency as a “reason” for me to close my heart to love and devotion.  But as now know, what some else does or does not do, has nothing to do with me.

Now, I have learned to love.  The message of love is one of universal order and Divine flow.  It brings about the harmony, peace, justice, and order which the Ancient Egyptians called MA’AT.  The Ancient Egyptians believed that MA’AT balanced the scales of life and with this balance; mankind and womankind could overcome the fetters of the ego and become “lighter.”

Love, peace, harmony, justice, order…these are the things I wanted to experience in life.  In the past, I didn’t understand the source of my resistance because I didn’t know that on this earth plane, we have an ego that must be overcome.  No one is perfect 100% of the time and unfortunately some allow themselves to be absorbed in negativity and non-productivity.  And this is where the ego will take you.  The ego will take you in the direction of negativity and productivity because the ego operates in fear and complacency.

Hence, even if we are not perfect 100% of the time, it still, in essence has nothing to do with how we should treat one another.   Each of us has a mandate on this earth to give and send, with all the passion of our being, love.  God, the Source of all Creation, has pure love for all creation.  We were created from the vibration of love and it is the energy of this unconditional love which holds this universe together.

In my spiritual growth and personal development, I began to explore my discomfort with the terms, “all you need is love” or any philosophy that always talked about love.  As I probed deeply, I uncovered something extremely vital and life changing about my personality.  I uncovered a behavior that I was unaware of.  It was a behavior in which I practiced for years.

You see, years ago I was not the most emotionally expressive person.  The most emotion that I had ever shown, outside of anger, was when my father passed in 1995.  That was the most devastating time in my life.  (Surviving Katrina was the next, but the grief and hurt I felt for the situation outweighed most of the anger that arose later on.)  Before my father died, I could count the number of times I cried or displayed any type of emotion in terms of compassion.  I felt very deeply for people, cared for people, and even at the tender age of 14 began to ponder the meaning of life and existence, but I was too “hard” to show it.  My heart was nearly hardened with the thought of displaying any type of compassion.  For me, saying that you loved someone was a sign of weakness.  I could literally never make myself say it.  And there were so many times that the urge to say the words would come upon me, the urge to show it would come upon me and I would resist it each time.  I didn’t want to be weak.

But as time went on, I discovered that I did become weak.  This resistance had spiritual and physical consequences.  Of course, when you’re 10, 19, 24, years old you don’t begin to understand the spiritual consequences and detrimental physical manifestations that result from resisting love and devotion.  The spiritual consequences manifested as surface relationships that had little depth. The physical consequences manifested as reoccurring digestive disorders.

During those years I grew to understand that the universe orchestrates situations that will give you opportunity after opportunity to give and receive love.  And friends I must tell you that there are boundless set of opportunities presented.  Now, I don’t resist.  I allow love to flow through me unconditionally.  I do not stop the flow of love to me and through me.  Ultimately, I stopped resisting.

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