Love, light and balance a philosophy of living pt1.

Love, light and balance has been a concept of mine that has over time grown into being a life philosophy. Originally it was just love and light but as time grew on it was obvious that something was missing... balance.

So as so many have told me love, light and balance is just another one of those things people say who want to sound spiritual but in reality has no foundation in day to day living. Well not so, at least not for me.

It amazes me how we as humans are so quick to draw conclusions about another and their ideas based on our own feelings about any particular subject. When faced with a certain set of words or a combination of such we quickly decide whether we are going to listen or disregard everything said from that point on. So without further a do I will try to describe to you what love, light and balance is and how i came to adopt it not only as a fancy greeting but also as something I am striving towards in every and any situation life throws at me.


Love

What is love?
This is a question that I have been asking myself ever since there was a self to ask the question. It is something that have been felt since the beginning but over time has taken on various expressions positive as well as negative. When I ask people define love, most will go on to talk about relationships in some shape or form. Some people will outright tell me they do not believe in love as if love was some sort of illusory idea that only exists for those who believe. Others claim not to know what it means.

For me however love is...and it is as simple as that. When all other emotions are removed, we are a total peace and are not viewing the world through our angled self fulfilling ideals what is there? Well what i found was that there was not a void but a possibility. It is a place of potential energy and when left alone this energy will ebb and flow undisrupted through our body system and give rise to a feeling of calm harmonious movement.

This to me is love. The basic energy that has the potential of becoming any movement be it emotional, physical or mental. It is attraction in it's purest form, attraction being a force that moves us or steers us in a direction as supposed to another. When all else is left out, all our preconceptions of what love does, should do, did not do for us, all thoughts on what love feels like and should and should not make us feel, and when any other subjective thought and movement is left out there is love.

Many talk about pure love as being something that takes a particular expression but in my opinion love in it's purest form just is. Nothing more nothing less.


Love just is?

Huh? So love just is? There is nothing I need to do or no one i need to project unto for love to be?

Exactly. Love just is and there in lies it's beauty. If love is the potential for all movement, emotions, motion, motivation and feelings then love must be in everything that we do. In every thought that we have, every motion that we create, every emotion that we experience, every interaction that we have. Then everything that is in motion must be in love...this then must mean that I am in love, am of love and do love all day every day without having to DO anything other than just be.

To me this realization confirmed what I have always felt in my very being. No matter how much I was shaped into a person that said things like I hate this or that, or I dislike such and such in the end to me it was all aspects of one and the same. What appeared to be an opposite emotion from love was in fact the same experienced from a different perspective. i realised that Hate could not be without love. Hate more often than not if not always seems to be a direct expression of love. Love for something and not something else. But what was even more important to me was that hate seemed to be something that existed only as a result of a desire.

As I searched through all the emotions I realized that the same could be said for all them. They were attached to desired events. Even love as it was in my mind attached to the interaction between a potential partner and myself seemed to be just that. A desired outcome that either did or did not materialize. But there was one major difference and that was when there was no desire for any outcome and all was left as is, love seemed to still be there. Only this time without any specific cause or direction. The direction it took was up to me.


Love is not a choice

So after all, when it dawned on me that love is not a choice and it is in fact in everything i do, be it good or bad, there was a choice to be made. The choice was not to love or not, but what to do with this love that was there no matter what.

To me the choice was simple. And so then and there my journey recognizing that love is began with allowing love to be. No need to search for any illusions, or pointers as to when and where love was going to happen because it was and is already with me.



Light

What is light? Well some say it is a particle and some say it is a wave form. Some believe light is vision and clarity and some that light is just a separation from darkness. To me light is what happens when we recognize a thing, place or experience. When we move from unawareness to awareness. When a thing takes a shape and form and becomes something that we can process. Light can be visual or spiritual, mental or emotional. In any case light is what we do when we move from one experience through the next. Light is awareness in all it's shapes and forms.

I have had many discussions with people who believe that we came from a darkness and abyss of nothingness into something ness and that most is dark. Well this is a way of seeing it. But that darkness or abyss of nothing ness is only so because we have yet to begin the experience of being aware. And as such to me there is no such thing as darkness only unawareness of the light that is there. It is like when you open your eyes and begin to see, it is not that everything was dark around you it is just that you did not yet take in and recognize that light that was always around you.

And so light is not only vision it is also knowledge, understanding and wisdom. Every shape or form that awareness may take may be be equalled to light.. And so my experience what ever it may be is that of light and my being is ever in search for new light and others see me through the light.


Balance

Our experience is one of movement through light. What is movement. Well in essence it is a relative state. For something to move it has to be something. For it to be something it has to be separate from something else. How does it do that? Well something is essentially a cumulation of mass into a compacted seemingly enclosed area. This accumulation or compacted area whether it seems stationary or not is essentially made up of moving parts. What makes it something is the relative distance of theses parts in relation to the surrounding parts and their distances.

Once there is a something and a something else or something and it's surrounding less dense parts we can recognise movement. As things move in relation to one another there is a pattern emerging. A pattern that always strives towards equal distribution of parts so that no imaginary space or side is more filled with parts than another. But this is not a stationary balances. It is a balance in motion. One part moves making another move in another direction to accommodate the movement of the first. This is the balance. It's an equilibria state. A waveform or particle movement striving to reach the ultimate distribution state but never quite reaching it.

It is what life and all it's components do. And so it is also something i felt necessary to adopt in my day to day living. I recognize that there is a balance in everything. That ever event has it's balancing partner not necessarily one that i may see or recognize at a glance but never the less it is so. As such I decided to promote this balance by aiming for balance in my own actions, and recognizing the balance that may come out of events out of my hands.


So with love as my motivator, light as my experiencer and balance as my goal I travel my journey through life with a new set of tools. And thus far they have served me well in providing a better more productive experience than what was had before all this was realized.

So I hope that this short writing has explained to those of you who question my motives and understanding of love, light and balance. This is what it is nothing more nothing less. Take from it what you may.

I love you in light and balance always