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Are you Living with Trust and Love?
The force of love is actually real. In modern life we have grown used to randomness, to the notion that life is precarious and threatened at every turn. But the history of life shows that it has survived for billions of years; in fact it seems to create conditions for its own survival by means of some deep intelligence that is never threatened. No matter how hostile the conditions, life is inextinguishable.
You can apply this insight to your own life. Imagine its very beginning, when against billions of odds a single sperm managed to fertilize an ovum in your mother’s womb. Your present identity depends entirely on that act. The chances against this single occurrence would make it seem impossible, but it happened effortlessly.
Likewise, there have been millions of assaults against you from the environment, from pollution, radiation, even from random mutations within your cells; any one of these could have ended your chances of survival at any time from conception to the present day.
Yet the intelligence and organizing power inside you has overcome these obstacles with effortless ease, despite all the struggle your conscious mind could not anticipate or plan how to conceive life, keep it going, or defend it from such terrible dangers.
Now, if this effortless ease can operate at the unconscious and cellular level, why not on the conscious? Can you see yourself riding the crest of the wave of life? In fact, that is what you are doing at every moment. Your personal impulses to think, feel, and act are like the crest of a wave, constantly falling forward into the future, yet constantly renewed form below – the surge of love that constantly upholds life is like the surge of the ocean that renews each wave.
Seeing this is the beginning of trust. In the light of trust, as it develops slowly over time, you will find that you are a privileged child of the universe, entirely safe, entirely supported, entirely loved.
Adapted from Twenty Spiritual Lessons for Creating the Life You Want, by Deepak Chopra (Harmony Books, 1995).
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add your comment »The difficult part is to be trusting and loving, eventhough our life is an obstacle course.
We will encounter many troubles, yet we must focus on the beauty of life.
If we keep focusing our pain, it will for sure never go away.
No one can be without a problem, this life is about solving problems, but thankfully it is also about blessings.
I choose to live a life full of wonders and joy as much as possible, so when the troubles come, I am ready to take on anything!
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Beautifully expressed. Thank you.
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What are love and trust? I find myself mystified , that I might not know to define them in my own life. Over the years I have developed a trust in my own "high " self that the lessons and experiences it wishes to have through me need not be traumatic. I sense that just as when I dream violent experiences and find them usefully interesting, not terrible, my soul is capable of creating that kind of havoc in my mortal life as a prized learning experience it won't do without, adventures that I prefer not to experience. I know that my entire life experience depends on it's( my immortal self's) agenda for this existence so trust comes into play as I have come to believe that it knows itself mostly capable of learning through pleasure,not just pain, and I can trust it to walk my life through lovely places. Love is very difficult. I grew up trusting in my mother's and grandparent's love for me. Later I learned to trust my father's love ,as our relationship was quite confrontational. I came to understand that love is differently expressed in different relationships and that it is a struggle to see the difference between true love which always seeks the good of it's focus and personal desire which insists that all outcomes are to it's own specifications. Unconditional love is a torturous lesson yet perhaps the true prize of mortal experience . My mother's mother used to say to me, " oh child, if you could only see it, the grains of sand are held together by love".
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these words have stayed with me all day, like water running through my soul
very clear profound words
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I fine on the whole people don't fully understand 'Love' because they never had to 'trust' completely throughout their lives; when one depends on another person one develop an inner feeling, towards certain types of people also situations. Before, knowing what ''Love'' I believe learning to ''Trust'' must be one's 1st lesson to be ''Learn'' followed by ''True Love'' - if you're lucky to experience both emotion "FIRST" then "LOVE" stays with you "FOREVER" this is "TRUE" I know so.
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With Love, we can resolve many of the problems today. Love can solve anything. I encourage everyone to try to be more loving and then check-out the results, you'd be amazed.
If we would practice to love ourselves and others more often, there would be more to go around and people would not be homeless.
Thank you Deepak, you are the best! Love you!
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Love is "the creative force of the universe". It is simply a vibration that has a precise rate.And one knows it when one feels it because of this. Remember that trust is experienced through chakra #1, so to develop it, use that chakra.
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Thank you for this beautiful and empowering message. :)
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I think it would help if there were a clear, shared undestanding of what love is.
Paul - originalfaith.com
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