by Douglas Robinson… 
Nothing is hidden from you; all truth is open to you. This you know in your heart of hearts. You know deep within yourself that to live with ultimate love and compassion for self and for others is the only way to fulfill your life purpose. All else leads only to temporary gain, followed by ultimate loss; for to live any other way avoids ultimate purpose. Therefore, live honestly and in loving-kindness for yourself and for all around you. When we live in such a way we are at one with the heart of all being.
The meaning behind our existence is no secret. It is there within us all. It is simply that we find so little time to consider what we seek above all else: love, peace and fulfillment: a sense of togetherness and ultimate oneness with all things. We desire this sense of oneness – of return to the source – above all else, but even our desiring takes us further from our goal. The act of love seems often to take us closest, but then we often emerge with feelings of heightened loneliness.
We cannot find oneness through desiring. Do not desire: Give! – Give what you desire! – Be the source of all you desire! Only then can you be fulfilled in your purpose, for that is the purpose and challenge for each of us – to represent ultimate truth in human form. Our purpose here is to love; it is not to be loved. Therefore, do not desire to be loved! – Simply love! What you give will return to you. The universe awaits you with boundless love in response to the love you pour out to others in all you do. We need not desire love or want for anything, for we are loved and cared for no matter what hardship may surround us. The gift of universal love awaits us always and can live forever within our hearts.
Many say that our feeling of separateness is an illusion. It is not an illusion, but our consciousness of only one aspect of our being. We are after all individual, but we are also connected as we are united, both spiritually and physically, in the heart of all being. We are as connected in the heart of all being as the leaves and branches of a tree are part of one tree. The tree cannot live without its parts, and its parts cannot live separate from the whole.
In our heart of hearts we know we are connected. Our ego minds play upon our individuality because they can see nothing but our separate manifestations. Our hearts sense our connectedness and express this knowledge when we listen. The heart is our balance point; it is where intellect and emotion join as one, mingling in a dance of yin and yang.
The heart of all being seeks conscious awareness and full expression through each manifestation of being. We are one ever developing manifestation of being. There are many others, each contributing a unique awareness to the whole of consciousness. As the tree would not live if it did not branch out from its core and respond to energies around it, so the universal consciousness of all being would not develop if it did not manifest itself in all possible forms allowed by circumstance.
We are here as a species so long as we fulfill our role as experience gatherers, as leaves remain green so long as they nourish the tree. We are not more valuable than what we contribute to the whole. Therefore be generous and aware in all things. We are not more limited than we ourselves impose, for the heart of all being desires full expression. Therefore, see your life as filled with limitless possibility.
Know that whatever you dream you can manifest, for the dream is all being searching for its realization. Nothing envisioned will fail to manifest. Choose then to manifest what you feel in your heart to be good for you and for those you love. And if you love truly, those you love will include all things, as you reflect the love of all being that shines through you to all around you.
Simply love, infinitely and purely. Then abundance will flow through your life and you will become a radiant blessing to all. Then you will always be filled with inner joy and peace as you know yourself at one with all being.
About the Author:
In addition to writing, Douglas Robinson serves as vision rehabilitation counselor in Great Falls Montana. He and his partner Ruth produce a newsletter entitled “Conscious Awakenings” which you can find at: http://community.icontact.com/p/consciousawakenings Find Doug’s writing at: http://dbrsinger.wordpress.com. Something about these titles may lead you to believe that Douglas Robinson is also a singer. Indeed, he sang professionally as an opera, concert and recital singer for twenty years before devoting himself exclusively to writing and counseling.
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This caught my eye. I used to read so much of this stuff and found great meaning in it. My question is this: What if what you feel in your heart is “good” for you…but not so much for the people you love? If you are supposed to give love…and not want to be loved…do you then bury what is good for you so the ones you love will be happy?
This is a great read. Please understand I’m just another guy looking for a less cumbersome way to live.
Hi Andy! I well understand your skepticism and I hope this “kind of stuff” will again come to have at least some meaning for you. I’m glad you found this to be a great read and you in turn give me two great questions to address.
Your questions that point to issues I might have better fleshed out if I hadn’t become caught up in writing what my life partner calls “a rather oracular” article.
Your implication in the first question is of course correct: it would hardly be love if one -intentionally- imposed what you feel to be good on others. I suppose it could be seen as motivated by love if one does so out of ignorance, as I certainly feel my parents did to me more than once and as I’ve also done to others from time to time. I’m glad to say I do this far less often now – I think and hope – than previously.
The love I’m talking about here though isn’t anything you’d impose on anyone, in fact it’s quite the opposite. It’s simply the feeling of real connection with, or com_passion with (not for) others. It’s the kind of love a counselor taught me about when I was languishing from loving a girl who wanted to go off and do other things rather than live with me. He asked: “do you really love her?” – to which I of course said “YES!” He then asked: “Do you love her enough to delight in her joy in doing what she wants to do, whether or not you’re involved?” Well, my conceptual world exploded with that one: until them my entire concept of love was in terms of clinging together and possession – though I didn’t then recognize the possessiveness for what it was. So, I’m trying to talk here about anything but possession and putting demands and expectations on those we love.
For your second question, my answer is decidedly “no!” What I was attempting to suggest here is that we find rewarding in giving far more than in receiving. I suggested therefore that we remove all consideration of receiving as far from our minds as possible. Perhaps I overdid it a bit! A good deal of Law of Attraction writing worries me in that it insists we give generously in order to provoke universal energy to give back in equal bounty. The problem here is that we may feel we’ve given more than we receive back and we end up being in disappointment. I think we’re disappointed in such an instance because our real deep down goal isn’t really to give but rather to receive. In other words, we’re giving so that we’ll receive. I think we’re truly liberated and therefore truly happy when we find fulfillment in giving without regard to what we receive back. Our real reward is the delight in what we do for others, not at self expense or self sacrifice to the point of causing ourselves pain, but self sacrifice that turns into self fulfillment.
This is why I suggest we’re really here to give – not to receive (love – not to be loved). Of course we receive, but that is not our true purpose here and it cannot be our goal if we’re to find fulfillment in our experience here. The reason I find this to be so is that I perceive the universe entirely involved in giving out, manifesting being in every possible way so as to experience in every possible way. Our only true way to participate, as I see it, is to assist in spreading universal abundance, giving and loving in every way we possibly can. In my view, when we try to take (receive) we then hold things to ourselves and we consequently work against this process.
What are the things we’ll value in the last instant of our conscious lives? These are the things of value. We can certainly feel the love that will come back to us from loving and helping others – at lest this is how I feel it to be. I hope you or anyone else with a differing conclusion will continue to share so that I might learn more.
I understand what you are saying, however, it is easier said than done for me. I seek the inner peace that would allow me to give love without expecting anything in return, but I usually end up dissapointed because it is hard to not desire or hope for something in return. How do you accomplish the satisfaction within yourself? It seems to me like it would be a feeling of absolute freedom, yet I don’t know how to accomplish this for the long term.