There’s something beautiful about exploring the many pathways into Love. Every interaction provides an opportunity to offer oneself in service, reach out to someone in need, tend to Mother Earth, or hold space for another. Each of us could find a unique way to express Love and still, there would be more to discover.
Consider your own journey. By honoring every path as sacred, you are being Love. When you are fully present with the person in front of you, Love is expressing itself through you. Listening with an open mind creates space within a relationship for understanding, compassion, and connection to deepen.
I often think of a video I once saw of Ram Dass in the ocean after his stroke. His students held his body afloat so he could enjoy the swells before the waves broke. With each gentle rise, all he could say was, “Wheeeee…” and soon they were saying it too, laughing with the sheer delight of being there together.
That was Love in motion.
Deeply present. Joyful. Needing nothing from the moment except the moment.
There was no great teaching being offered, and yet perhaps the teaching was everywhere: in the hands holding him above the water, in his willingness to be held, in the ocean carrying them all, and in the laughter that rose between them.
I hope one day we all experience such a moment, though perhaps we already have in ways we did not recognize at the time.
Find your bliss. Ride the waves. Let yourself be held in Love, and when the moment comes, hold someone else.
I can think of no greater epitaph for a life well lived.
✨Blessing✨
May Love meet you in every path you walk.
May joy rise within you like a wave beneath the sun.
May you know the grace of holding and being held.