Opening to Oneness through Love
Love, at its deepest level, is the awakening to Oneness. When loving presence flows through the heart, it shifts the vibration of the inner energy body into resonance with your essential nature – with the truth of who you really are and with the truth of what is. It is love that links form with essence and essence with spirit.
– Leonard Laskow
There is a natural relationship between Oneness and love because it is the nature of love to remember and seek unity. When love finds the unity it seeks, all further seeking stops. And when we awaken to the Oneness that is our inherent nature, we realize how much energy we have expended to maintain the illusion of separation. Whenever we feel tossed and thrown by the waves of circumstance and condition, it is helpful to remember the Ocean of Awareness, the ultimate reality.
And yet the illusion of separation is so much a part of our culture, our neurobiology, and such a big part of our self-identity that we find it hard to imagine who we would be or what we would do without these “precious” wounding stories.
And yet the illusion of separation is so much a part of our culture, our neurobiology, and such a big part of our self-identity that we find it hard to imagine who we would be or what we would do without these “precious” wounding stories.
Love is one of the most commonly used yet one of the least clearly defined words in our language, perhaps because love can mean or refer to so many different things.
Love expresses and experiences itself as both passion and peace, cyclically and simultaneously unfolding in the totality of being. The “medium” for our passionate and peaceful intentions is “resonance,” which is one of the keys to healing. The classic example of resonance involves two tuning forks, each having the same natural frequency, in tune with one another. If you strike one tuning fork tuned to A and put it next to another A tuning fork, it will induce a vibration in the other. If you put that same vibrating tuning fork next to a B or C tuning fork, it will not vibrate. There is no resonance. Only similars vibrate.
We can’t equate love with resonance per se because, for example, if you have unresolved anger and you walk into a room where there are angry people, you might get angry at them or with them. That anger is activated through resonance with the anger within you. So resonance by itself is not an example of love. However, when you are loving, resonance is always present. In other words, resonance is necessary but not sufficient for healing with love.
Love doesn’t “create” unity because Oneness already IS. The function of love is to remember Oneness.
Excerpts from the book For Giving Love
Love expresses and experiences itself as both passion and peace, cyclically and simultaneously unfolding in the totality of being. The “medium” for our passionate and peaceful intentions is “resonance,” which is one of the keys to healing. The classic example of resonance involves two tuning forks, each having the same natural frequency, in tune with one another. If you strike one tuning fork tuned to A and put it next to another A tuning fork, it will induce a vibration in the other. If you put that same vibrating tuning fork next to a B or C tuning fork, it will not vibrate. There is no resonance. Only similars vibrate.
We can’t equate love with resonance per se because, for example, if you have unresolved anger and you walk into a room where there are angry people, you might get angry at them or with them. That anger is activated through resonance with the anger within you. So resonance by itself is not an example of love. However, when you are loving, resonance is always present. In other words, resonance is necessary but not sufficient for healing with love.
Love doesn’t “create” unity because Oneness already IS. The function of love is to remember Oneness.
Excerpts from the book For Giving Love
