Flow 2.14.2016 Love is a space
In the dream, I was shown a circle. I saw that I could stand inside or outside of this circle. Inside of the circle was love. Outside was resistance to love. In this way, I saw that love is a space that we can occupy or resist occupying.
There is nothing complicated about this. No story to tell. Nothing can hold us separate from the circle. Not really. We occupy the space of love by stepping into the circle.
What surprised me was the location of the circle: the center of my body.
I practiced stepping into and out of the circle. I felt the difference, in my body, of being inside the circle of love and being outside of it.
The circle is always there - always calling to me from the space of love.
Inviting me to come inside and stand inside the circle, the space, of love.
Love is always looking for itself in me, in you, in everything.
Such is the nature of love.
The circle is a dream, an image.
It is also an illusion. One that I may use to separate love from not-love.
As I woke, I saw that everything, even the space outside of the circle, is inside the circle of love.
The circle is needed so that the mind can find its way to love.
The circle is the mind, trying to understand the language of the heart - a wordless language which can only be felt. A language which the mind will translate into circles so that it can step inside.
This brings tears to my eyes and makes me love the mind, the beautiful and willing mind, even more. Even when the mind gets tangled up in concepts, even when it believes it is being held outside of the circle of love, mind is inside. Like everything else. Nothing is exiled. Nothing is separate. Widen the circle.
This is best understood somatically, through the body’s experience.
Here’s an exercise to play with.
Invitation:
Locate the circle of love. Find it at the center of your heart. Feel it there, a circle of love inside of your own body. Imagine you can shrink down and step inside of the circle. Step right in there - through the center of your own chest. Place your hand over the breastbone at the center of your rib cage. That’s the spot. Feel a circle of love blooming there, underneath your hand.
Once you locate the circle of love, practice stepping into and out of this space.
Step inside the circle and stay there.
Stay there as you prepare your coffee.
Stay there as you go about your day.
Stay there as long as you can.
If you notice you are not there, go back in.
What if you stayed there forever?
Mmm a circle of love, may there be ever expanding circles of love. I also noted in your picture the Claddagh ring, a symbol that speaks to Love, to sovereignty and the choice we all have to choose love.
Beautiful