Several years ago I was driving in South Texas thinking about a meditation I was doing in which I stepped through the doorway into another level of mind. My image was of going through the door and floating in the space of that level. Seeing myself floating, the phrase "falling in love" popped to mind. I saw and felt myself "falling" in love, floating in a sea of love, surrounded and permeated by love. It remains an extremely beautiful picture.

We have an unlimited capacity for love, to love and to be loved. There is never a shortage of it. It is endless. No matter how much love we have for someone, there is always more to give to another. Somebody once asked if we can love more than one person. The answer is yes, YES, YES! Love knows no rhyme or reason, no season and no rationing. A Family Circus cartoon once showed the mother of four children being asked how she divided her love up among four children. Her answer was that love was never divided, but rather multiplied.

If we want to bring love into our lives, we have but to love another. Forget that mistaken notion about having to love ourselves first before we can love someone else. We ARE love. Of course we love ourselves. Anything else is impossible. When I was in my teens and my life was not going too well and I was not having any fun, I thought that I hated myself. But being the logical person that I am I quickly reasoned that if I really did hate myself, then why was I so nice to myself? I fed myself, clothed myself, got to school and work on time, kept myself showered and shaved and was generally nice to other people. I was pretty nice to somebody whom I thought I didn't like!

Love is not a verb. Most humans, when they say, "I love you," really mean that they want to possess you, give you responsibility for their happiness and want you to conform to their expectations of who they want you to be. In reality love is a noun. It is a feeling or awareness of joy, bliss and happiness (to name a few) which we feel within ourselves in the presence or thought of a special other. Love is a feeling which we have within ourselves. It is what we are. Love is a vibration which gets excited and expands within us when we meet someone whose essence and energy vibrates on a wavelength similar to our own.

The more we are aware of our true Spiritual heritage and oneness with all beings and all things, the more we realize that we ALL vibrate on the SAME wavelength and the vibrational quality of love permeates our being. We are then always surrounded by our loved ones and we are always in love.

Many months ago I was visiting a former lover and now good friend in Portland, Oregon. I noticed that when I hugged her I literally did not want to let go. If I had had a choice I never would have let go the embrace. I would have been content to go through eternity in that feeling. Two weeks later I was back in the Midwest at a New Age seminar. I saw many friends I had come to love (if you will permit me to use that word as a verb) very much. Again when I hugged them it felt so wonderful that I truly never wanted to let go.

I thought and meditated about this and what it meant. What I concluded was that I was feeling, experiencing, the essence of their being. And they were beautiful. We had become comfortable enough with each other that we were able to drop the facade of the human personality and just be who we truly were. We are love.

Adults often want to pick up and hug babies and young children. Why? Because they are cute. But also because they are much more open and the God-being which they are radiates from them. And we are aware of it. We feel it, this divine radiance.

We are that same radiant divinity; though perhaps with several layers of "civilization" covering it. We can uncover our true essence and share it with others. It is not a thought. It is a feeling or an awareness; a decision to BE who we are. Then as we become love, we draw into our lives those other people who share that same essence. Then we truly have love in our lives and in all that we do.

Unconditional love is the total acceptance of another human being AS THEY ARE, without expectations or conditions; allowing them to live according to THEIR rules, not ours. This is the love that we can give to all people. This is NOT indifferent. This can include compassion and does lead to a feeling of joy. Let them lead their lives according to their rules. Give advice only when asked for and don't be attached to whether or not it is followed.

When we truly love another we are genuinely interested in what happens to them. We take pleasure in their successes, even if their success means that we are in second place. For if we do take pleasure in their success then that means that we also win because we share in their joy. When they lose we share our love and joy with them to make them feel better. Love and joy are always within us; always ours to give. One of my definitions of Enlightenment--the state of being in the Light--is to operate from that place of eternal peace, love and joy and to always experience life from that state.

When the Vietnam war ended, I read every article about returning prisoners of war. In each case in which the soldier survived relatively unscathed psychologically, he stated that he had survived because he had come to love his enemy. At first I thought yeah, you were my enemy but poof! now you are my friend. But each article was genuine and told the story of how the prisoner had gotten to know his captives on an individual basis, picking up some of their language and trying to understand how they thought and felt, and then being genuinely FRIENDLY to them. When they did this the torture stopped and they were left alone. They had actually made their enemy their friend and you do not hurt your friends. What better way to conquer your enemy than to make him your friend! I did not come to this realization overnight but after much deep thought. I have held it as a truth ever since.

Jack Schwarz is a Great One who is a healer and who has complete voluntary control over his body. He has been studied extensively at the Meningers Institute in Topeka, Ks. He can stick a nail through his biceps and when he withdraws it there is no blood and after ten minutes there is no mark on his arm. He can also consciously regulate his pulse, blood pressure, temperature, etc, etc. He was born with this ability to totally heal his body instantly.

During the Second World War, he was a young prisoner of war of the Nazis. When his captors would torture him, he would laugh at them because he knew that he could heal himself no matter what they would do to him. He took pleasure in confounding them with his healing abilities. Then one day he lost it and could no longer heal himself. In pain, he thought about this and realized that to heal himself he must forgive and love his torturers. When he did this his healing ability returned. When it returned and he loved his captors, they left him alone when they realized they could do nothing to him.

Love makes us strong and hate makes us weak. Whatever we give to others is returned to us. It is our choice to love or not. Verbum sapienti satis est.

A few months after I returned from my vacation in Texas I was at work for an insurance company in KC. There was a young married woman who worked there with me. She was the secretary for my team. She generally gave me a hard time and, while not unpleasant, was not particularly nice to me. After a couple of months I got it through my thick skull that she was flirting with me in her own way. She loved her husband very much but was still drawn to me. With this realization I was no longer bothered by her gruffness toward me and began to enjoy her company even more, for I was also drawn to her.

One morning I walked past her desk and saw her busy at work. I had the most delightful giddy feeling inside my chest. I went inside my office and sat down. I knew that what I felt was love. I told myself that I did NOT need to fall in love with a married woman. Then I remembered that I was trying to bring love into my life and here it was, so why was I trying to disregard it? I did not have to do anything about my feelings for this woman either sexually or romantically. All I had to do was accept and enjoy the feelings of love which she engendered in me. So I did and have done that continually with people, male and female, whom I have met ever since.

We can love everyone if we so choose; our neighbors, co-workers, relatives and even strangers. We don't have to know them well or even at all. The love comes from us. We fill ourselves with the peace and joy of love when we allow that vibration to filter up to our consciousness from deep within our very beings. When we choose to love all those around us, when we allow ourselves to focus only on that which is inherently beautiful and good in all people, then we are always surrounded by our loved ones. Then, indeed, we are always falling in love.

I have never been married, although I always wanted to be. Something always just seemed to get in the way. For the last five or six years I have dated very little because I am psychic and knew that the women I met were not the one with whom I was going to spend the rest of my life. So to not become emotionally entangled in something which would not come to a joyful conclusion, I abstained. It was not fun, but I accepted that I was here for other reasons and would live my life for those reasons.

Then, a few years ago, I met a woman whom I could not resist, although I tried. She was too beautiful and too full of love for me to ever say no to. Although I wanted her, deep down inside I felt that she, also, wasn't the one. I didn't want to get involved with her if I was going to end up hurting her. Early in my friendship with this woman, I had a channeled reading with my Guides. They told me that I was to experience totally this relationship living each day in the moment with no thought of whether or not this woman was "the one". I vowed to do so with the sworn provision that, if she were not the one, she would not be hurt.

I loved her totally, in the moment, with no holding on to her and no concerns for what the future might hold for us. I enjoyed each and every moment we shared, and we shared much; our love, lives, hopes, fears, dreams, and our bodies. I loved her very much and, although when I went inside I still felt that it was not to last, I hoped very much that I could experience the pleasure of spending my life with her. I was willing to be, and hoped that I was, wrong about her not being the one. We talked of spending eternity together, we planned for the future together. We loved each other without conditions or expectations, without holding on to each other. We supported each other in whatever each of us did. And when she told me she was going back to her ex-husband, I cried.

But I was not angry and I still loved her and supported her in ALL of her decisions. I did not try to talk her out of it. She did not ask for my advice and I gave none. We still love and support each other and continue our friendship to this day.

I remembered my vow that she not get hurt. I forgot to vow that I not get hurt. But I never minded the hurt. It was the hurt of love and life and the experience was beautiful in its own way. There was no pain because I did not take the hurt personally nor did I hold on to it. What I learned was that even as my internal guidance told me that she was not the "one" for me, deep down she was also aware that I was not the "one" for her. If I live my life and love with unconditional love and with the highest good for all concerned uppermost in my mind and heart, whatever is in the best interest of all concerned will inevitably happen. I feel much more comfortable with myself now and do not feel that I need to keep myself from romantic interludes just because a woman I might meet is not the "one".