Happy Valentine's Day!

I loved Valentine’s Day as a child!  My dad used to come home from work with a bouquet of flowers for my mom and FIVE small heart shaped boxes filled with chocolates for his five little sweethearts.  He was really something. Yes, my daddy was terrific!

Happy Valentine’s Day!

My Valentine’s Day gift to you are some meditations on love.  Hope your day is special and that you spend it with the person or people you love most in life!

from Bodymind by Ken Dychtwald:

“Love is not something you can “have”, like a possession, or something you can “make”,  like a table, or something you can lose, like a key…Rather it is something that can “be experienced as an open, clear emanation of goodness that wells up within the body/mind and projects out through the vortex of the heart.”

“Love is the natural feeling of aliveness that an individual feels when all aspects of life are in harmony within.”

“Love is simply, yet profoundly, the unrestricted experience of life.  Its existence is continuous, but we experience it only to the degree that we have allowed our body/minds to be open, integrated, and balanced.  Within this perspective, love is not a place to go, but rather it is a place that is here all the time, waiting to be continually rediscovered by each of us.”

When my mother passed away, my friend Donni sent me a  card in which she had included the most beautiful and powerful words about love.  I have saved this quote written by John Burdett and read it from time to time to remind myself about the power of love:

“When you tear away the last veil, you know with certainty that LOVE is the foundation of human consciousness, that there is really nothing else.”