(Continued from Part 1, yesterday.)
Gerrit Gielen, “The inner love flow,” LightRaisers Worldwide, at https://www.lightraisersworldwide.com/the-inner-love-flow-gerrit-gielen/.
Part 2
The source of love in us
What do I mean by the source?
When we talk about the concept of source, we often think of the concept of origin. For example, we were created by a God, so that is our source, our origin. Or the universe was created from the big bang; that is the source of everything.
This way of thinking is problematic, because we then place the source outside ourselves through an immense separation in time. That separation is a thought construction: the expression of a belief that we are separate from the source.
This belief is incorrect. We are never separated from the source.
The source is something that exists outside time and space, that is, the source is now, the source is here. The source is not outside us, but within us. We are the source of love, we are love.
Being connected with the source, feeling the love that we are, should therefore be very natural for us. It is being who you really are, feeling who you really are; accepting yourself completely.
This is how it should be. So where have things gone wrong? By the way we think about ourselves. By all the thought constructions that alienate us from the source.
As we think about the reality outside us, so we think about ourselves. If we see the reality outside us as a struggle of “all against all”, it means that we are also at odds with ourselves. People who judge others harshly, do not love themselves.
How do we feel about ourselves?
Let’s look at that. How do you feel about yourself?
Do you consider yourself a good person? Do you consider yourself good enough to be entitled to love?
Many people do not think so. They think of themselves as so bad that they must continually hide their true nature and thoughts from others. They see others as normal, but they as not.
In other words, we feel that love should be only for good people, that love needs to be earned. So this is mistake number one. Love is unconditional, and the very people who call themselves bad need love the most. What we call evil comes forth from a lack of love.
Could it not be that all those evil thoughts you have, everything you are ashamed of, stem from a lack of love?
If you think that you are not entitled to love because your thoughts are sometimes not that nice, even though those thoughts are a result of the lack of love, then you will never get there. You have locked yourself in a thought circle that hides your inner sun like a dark cloud.
This is an important blockade. Many bad, angry, and fearful thoughts and feelings have arisen in us due to a lack of love. And because we have them, we do not consider ourselves worthy of love. In this way, we trap ourselves in a negative circle in which we do not allow love to enter and so we lose our connection with the source. This is reflected in a belief that there is an enormous gap in time and space between the source and our world.
Allow love
How do we get out of that way of reacting? To begin with, by thinking differently about love; by seeing love as something that is unconditional. True love has no conditions. Love that makes demands – “I love you so much, therefore you have to…” – is not love, it is blackmail.
Love is not only unconditional, love really wants to flow to places where it is needed. Just as light longs to brighten the darkness, love longs to gently touch and comfort all pain, all sorrow, all anger. Stop holding back. Remove the blockages between the love source in you and the child in you who so longs for love.
Let go of the thought that you have no right to love. Everything that exists is entitled to love. And love especially wants to flow to the dark places within you. Do not hold back any longer.
The key is stop thinking that you are not the source.
How do you do that? It is very simple: assume you are the source right now.
Tell yourself: “I am the source, I have always been that source. I love myself.” Allow that thought into your head for a moment, even though there may not yet be any feeling. That is step one.
Then ask yourself: “What part of me needs love most now?” Look within yourself. Imagine that somewhere in you is hiding a scared or angry person who thinks he has no right to love, who may think he is bad, that he is different, that he does not belong.
Then feel how badly that person needs love; how in your heart you desire to love that person.
Now you have discovered the truth: you are love, you are the source.
Now let your love flow into that lost part of yourself. Hug and speak soft, sweet words to it: “I see you, you are part of me, you belong, we move on together.”
(Concluded in Part 3, tomorrow.)
© Gerrit Gielen
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