Listening to Dionne Warwick sing, “What the world needs now is love sweet love. It’s the only thing that there’s just too little of” gives meaning to the intent of what the Discover Living website www.discoverliving.com intends to focus. Much can be accomplished with love in our lives. Barriers can topple. Force and violence will appear inappropriate. Singing and dancing will be appropriate. There will be a respect for human life that includes a genuine feeling of love. In my Discover Living book I define love as the most powerful universal force ever created. It is a word beyond definition, but can easily be expressed. Outer calmness is offset by tremendous inner strength. As you allow love to dominate your life you begin to experience changes that transform your life to give it more meaning, purpose, and hopefully a sense of peace.
Love is not something you flip a switch and it turns on. Like anything else you must study love by living it every day. The more you use love as the basis for your actions, attitude, and thoughts the easier and more meaningful your life becomes. As you become more receptive to it the easier it becomes to recognize it in your life and return it to others. It is a process of opening up and letting love consume your way of life. As this happens, the hate, envy, resentment, lust, anger, and greed emotions lose meaning and power over you.
One of the best ways to experience and learn to love is within your family. However, because of the break-up of many families and the stress to survive in a fast moving world, many times love loses its focus in life. Discover living can become your resource to bring love back into the forefront of your life. We will explore this learning process together through additional articles and the blog. We want to mold your emotions into something special. You will (as I relate in my Discover Living book) put yourself on a pedestal and first learn self love no matter what your status in life, your sex, religion, or country of origin. We all are human beings (equal) so we all can build on this common foundation of self respect, self esteem, and self love. Once you see, feel, and understand your capacity to receive and experience self love, then you will be able to share it with others.
It is important that you do not define your love only as feelings. The love I am looking for you to find goes much deeper than feelings. It is not a game that many people play. It is more of an attitude and way of life. To grow in love you need interaction with a spouse, family, friends, community, job, and hopefully God who has an interest in your eternal life. From early childhood until your last breath this awareness of human love for each other will satisfy your need of personal development.
Be wary that you do not confuse the meaning of love in an artificial environment. People on drugs and alcohol talking about love is a distortion because it is false reality. Hating a religion, country, sex, or ethnic background also does not project proper reality. By reducing your feelings to one of love of all mankind you put your emotions in check so that love reigns supreme. There are evil influences all around us so we need to focus, protect, and associate with those who profess the love we are seeking.
Love is not something you can control, hold, or capture. The more you try the easier it can slip away. You can welcome it into your life and share it with others with open arms, and it will affect your life and others based on its own merits. There can be no expectation as to how it will affect you. Simply trust and believe that you will receive as you give. Sometimes you receive less, and at others times be overwhelmed with all the love that is returned. This is a mystery so don’t give in to negative forces as you evolve. Put them in the past where they belong, make adjustments, and keep seeking. You will find joy as you give and share your love with others who are seeking the same. Having no expectations allows you to receive special blessings when what you have given is also returned.
You have no need to compare yourself with others. My focus and your focus is on you at this very moment. Let love into your life and cast the negative forces out and work hard not to react if what you give is not immediately returned. Simply live each moment with love as your guiding force. Let it guide your feelings, decisions, and attitude. As this inner glow intensifies you will invariably begin to have a positive affect on others around you. They will want to know what you have learned. They can become a part of Discover Living and grow, too. Together we can share love, and experience joy, happiness, and peace of mind. Think about what the world would be like if millions shared these same values. First, let’s begin with you.
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