“The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

– Jiddu Krishnamurti

A little while back, Terri raised the idea again; the idea of being love in everything you do.  What an amazing goal to seek for our lives — being love.  When I try to think of what that looks like, it has little or nothing to do with the things we associate with being in love.  It feels strong, not sappy; deliberate and constant, not a response to something outside us that might change with the circumstances.  It would have to be rooted in Truth, but not the sort of truth that is cold or harsh and wounds the world with its need to be proven right.

When I think of being love, the images that first come to my mind are those of children — young children whose lives have not yet been scarred by hurt or disappointment, young children who have not yet learned to withhold their openness or enthusiasm or delight at discovering something or someone new in their world.  How is it that we go about living in a sometimes harsh world with our hearts still innocent and open to delight?

I think Krishnamurti answers this dilemma when he says that the moment you have love in your heart, “you will discover that for you the world is transformed.”  When we truly decide to be love, the world no longer can greet us with harshness; for the love we send before us will transform our world.  Gandhi told us to be the change we want to see in the world.  What are we waiting for?  Who do we think is better equipped to bring love to the world than each and every one of us?  Perhaps it is true that we are the ones we have been waiting for!

“Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only with what you are expecting to give — which is everything.”

– Katharine Hepburn

It’s really very simple.  Be love.