I'm taking a "distance learning" Love Course with Harshada Wagner, an amazing meditation teacher and in his last webcast he asked us to notice moments of love as well as create moments of love in our everyday lives. Love can take myriad shapes. It can be love toward our partner, motherly or fatherly love, and it can even take the form of a Thank you or a smile between strangers. Anyone who has lived in NYC for a period of time understands that the city can feel distant, unfriendly, and rigid. Yet, when we truly look and are proactive about sending love to others, we find it is all around us. I know that sounds like a line from the move Love Actually, but it's true!
So I came back from Brazil with a renewed sense of self. A wider vision. A fresh perspective. I came back relaxed, though by Friday afternoon I started feeling like the frenetic energy of the city is consuming me again. And then I ran into a friend I hadn't seen in a while and something shifted. I saw myself rushing to catch a train to Connecticut for the weekend, my excessively heavy suitcase in hand, my mind on how quickly I want to get to that train, when I paused to take a moment and enjoy our quick yet uplifiting catch-up! Once we said good-bye, I walked to the subway more mindfully and with a little more grace. I caught myself and that uncomfortable feeling of rushing and realized how futile it is. I began to notice the moment and myself more. I was present. As a result, more little moments of love ensued and paved my path to the train: First, a man asked me if I needed help as I struggled to get my suitcase - and myself - through a turnstyle to enter the subway station at Times Square. Then as I was coming down a ramp approaching an elevator that I wasn't planning on taking, a woman noticed me and asked me with a smile if I want her to hold it. Then after getting off my subway train, I saw a set of stairs towering in front of me and as I braced to pick up my heavy suitcase, a guy offered to bring it up for me! I breathed a sigh of relief! I felt light and completely connected. I wanted to keep smiling and ride this wave. It was moment after moment of love.
Imagine what life would be like if it was just an endless string of love moments. I'm going to try to create more of them. Are you in?
Love is not a feeling but a verb. We all know that a verb is an action word, and love for me is an action word. We really need to sacrifice for the person we chose to be with in a lifetime. We should cherish each other and prove that we will take a risk for that person. If you think that you are happy, then, be with the person you love as long as you want but if not let just let go even if it will hurt you much.
Posted by: Steeve Stavri | August 21, 2012 at 09:46 AM