Life/Love

The purpose of life is to express who you are.
On this planet our soul's purpose is to be who our soul wants us to be. I've figured out that part of that purpose is to love and love in every moment. That might sound easy to some people but yet so complicated to others.

Why is it that these concepts seem to be the ones that we have the most challenges with? I mean just look at it carefully. Love. I think there's a big majority of us that are afraid of love in some way. Why? Well there are many answers and individual ones based on our experience.

Love is hard to define. You just know when you are "in love" and what that feels like. Loving someone is very different from loving something. Loving someone makes us behave all goofy although that's not necessarily a bad thing.

I think that if we learn to love everyone and everything in some way it would make a big difference in our world and to those that we meet. Imagine our world with so much love in it. It's already there but now we would be more conscious of it and would be applying it constantly.

I'm not living in a dream world. So much of what each of us is searching for is tied to love. Love, that one simple word can turn our life inside out or upside down.

A New Year

It's a new year. A new year brings a fresh outlook to everything, if we choose. The new year came in during the full moon too.

It's said that each day is an opportunity to start afresh. We can let go of yesterday and focus on today. It called living in the now.

I don't know about you but I get stuck in my head and replay the past and hope for what I want in the future. I know I'm not alone. That's why there is so much emphasis on living in the now.

Living in the moment is a practiced way of living. It sounds good but do we actually follow it? To answer my own question, sometimes and for brief moments.

For me, it's an aspired way to live. It's very much like meditation. It's something that when practiced over time become easier I'm told.

This new year, I hope to pay attention to the many now moments. I know I miss a lot by being stuck to the past and what's in the future. All I really have is now anyway.