Love as a Feeling or a Force

When described in popular films or even between lovers, parents or friends, love is explained as a feeling. For the shaman, this is not so.

 

It is possible to experience love as a feeling, but they see it as a force, one that helps you see the truth amid the lies.

 

Love is the way a flower feels for the morning dew which nourishes it. It can be found between the jaguar and the deer it hunts to feed her cubs.

 

Like gravity, love is a force you cannot escape─it is everywhere and still you cannot see it.

 

Somehow it holds the ability to pull on us and lead us in acts of both courage and foolishness beyond our wildest imaginings.

 

The sages believed that love is the singular force in the universe that all of creation arises from, and that every beautiful thing you create in your life comes from it.

 

Above all, love is the power of the Primordial Light, what we call Spirit, and it responds to us every time we call upon It.

 

You can miss the force of love and get lost in its feeling through the dream of love that is unconditional. I talk about this dream (turned nightmare) and two other common ones that keep you from your sacred dream in my latest book The Heart of the Shaman.

 

If someone you know can be helped in their awakening surrounding the feeling of love, I hope you pre-order the book for them before it is in bookstores.

 

Everyone can awaken from this dream where they no longer need to experience love through another. It is completely possible for you to wake up understanding you do not need anything to make you happy, and find yourself happy for no reason at all. There is work to be done to experience love this way and not down an easy road; but it is worth it, just to bask in the truth that love simply is.

 

Blessings, Alberto Villoldo