An Aspect of Love

Love is never entrapment, never control. Love is realizing the completeness within ourselves. It is leaving someone free to be themselves and accepting and Loving them as they come and as they are. We must walk our own paths and as we walk we must allow all others to walk their own as well. The beauty of life is that we are all different, living different lives and different experiences for the greater good of all, of everything.

We can liken ourselves as individual leaves that call home to the sprawling branches of a mighty oak tree; though we may not touch each other directly, our actions still affect the trunk - our home, Universe. Though we may Love another leaf on our branch, we can not expect them to dance joyfully in the wind if they do not wish or want to and we must Love them anyway because Love is acceptance, allowing others to be exactly who they are.

We don't have to like or Love the actions of others, but laying judgement is inappropriate as judgement suggests that there is only one way to live and experience life correctly, and we each inherently know that this is simply not true. Their experience is authentically their own, just as our experience is our own and all experiences must be had for Universe as a whole to experience all possibilities; each leaf, each branch for the greater good of the whole tree.

As Summer transitions to Autumn, the mighty Oak leaves do as well. The different shades of green slowly transition into vibrant reds, oranges, yellows, deep browns and various hues of a previous green. Each leaf is an individual, not one the same and each leaf's colour brings a Universal glory to that mighty Oak like no other.

As leaves of the mighty Oak in different hues and colours, we are individual experiences in a grand Universe; each must be had, each is acceptable, each is worthy of Love. If we can not co-exist with another without judgement, without our own expectations being laid all over the other, then we must be selfless, Loving and walk away; making another effort to Love and accept ourselves. It is our own expectations placed on others in the name of Love that cause relationships of all kinds to fail. Those expectations are created and supported by unLoving ourselves; this unLove being created by someone else placing expectations and rejecting who we are as individuals.

To move forward in Love, we must transmute the unLove we have each experienced into complete acceptance and Love for ourselves. Only then can we be accepting and Loving towards all others.

No expectations, only Love.