“To Tulsa With Love”
Flying over Kansas and Colorado, admiring the topogrophy, I couldn’t help but be reminded of the beauty and grace of its vastness. I was awed by the expansion of what lay before me as the earth’s patterns disappeared into the horizon. At once I was struck with my own insignificance, yet at the same moment, seeing it from another point of view, as me being the creator of it all, my sense of power was overwhelming. And, there was nothing I could do but appreciate it all.
I was returning from Tulsa, Oklahoma where I had just spent three and a half incredible days with my fabulous family and friends. It was another opportunity for me to apply the principle that love is a state of being rather than an emotion, and I dedicated myself to sharing it with each one I met. As a result, the joy I experienced was boundless.
Bypassing the judgments my mind was programmed to come up with, being the computer machine that it is, I was able to get close to and be with a wide variety of people I had never met before in my life. Because I was so open and willing to love, I left a lot of room for them to share their natural love with me. It was interesting to see how differently people react when they have that kind of space to move their emotions around in. Faced with someone who totally accepts you, you are then left only to face yourself. And to the degree that people were able to be with themselves, was the degree they were able to be with me. I encountered a wide spectrum of emotions, including indifference, anxiety, curiosity and illumination. It didn’t matter who it was or what our relationship looked like. I loved them all and had warm feelings about each one of them.
It excites me to know that I am capable of living my life this way, willing to be with people, no matter who or what the circumstances might be. More than ever, I can trust my Self not to allow my mind to win over my experience just by observing my thoughts and letting them be, without reacting. I used to think I had to do something with them, either acting upon them or making them terrible and wrong. Now, I can seperate my Self from my ideas and notions. I don’t have to be them, I merely observe them and know they no longer control me. Life is not the complicated mess I once made of it, a bundle of emotions tying me to my history. I am free to experience an abundance of love and give it away just as freely.
People from all over the world are touching my life and I am passionately playing. I would love to see everyone share in this experience. It is certainly not unique to me. I am no guru sitting on a mountain top, but an ordinary person who has learned to live life in an extraordinary way. It came from my willingness to open myself up to the experience of learning, and there are so many expressways to enlightenment. And I love you.
