Is love or fear your motivator?
I love this image. When I am in Lithuania the group frequently meditates while watching the sunset over the Baltic Sea. It is amazing to watch a group of people sitting in silence just watching the sunset.
When you take action with intent and purpose you have a totally different experience and you get very different results. If you take the same actions because you are afraid the best you can do is create more fear.
Changing your world
Changing your world is very different from wanting to change the world. I get so many emails from people asking, “Isn’t it a good thing to feed the hungry or stop war or _______ fill in the blank.”
My question is always, “Are you doing it from love or from judgment/fear?” Is there something inherently wrong with people starving? That is where things get a bit dicey. On an energy level people come here to experience what they come here to experience.
I remember hearing someone talk about the story of the Good Samaritan in the bible. As I recall a man was badly beaten and half dead so the Samaritan helps the injured man. There are several layers to the story because Samaritans were not well liked. The parable suggests he did a good deed.
What if the injured man was about to experience enlightenment because of his wounds? What if some how the pain and suffering was allowing him to see the world in a totally different way? But the intervention of the Good Samaritan, although it saved him from suffering he never reached that enlightened state?
Just some food for thought and a reminder to choose love.
With love, joy and an impish smile,
Susan
PS. Would love to see your thoughts about the parable and there is still a free Kindle reader for one of the commentators.
Such a good reminder Susan. Thank you.
I always enjoy your posts and they are always valuable to me
even after all these years. oxo
Nice to hear from you. Sending you lots of love.
With a big smile, Susan
Making the decision to bring change and a different perception is the most liberating thing anyone can do.It does take effort and determination.. but as the wings unfold.. you find you always knew how to fly and all you needed was the fear to go and let the love carry you higher ? Susan’s work helped me make those changes. Thank you.
Thanks Tessa,
Let the love be the wind beneath your wings!
Susan
Aloha Susan –
All of Me by John Legend ,a hit song on pop radio currently, has become an anthem of this for me and my new found love and acceptance of myself. When I sing along with the radio, I am singing to myself, not some love/lover outside of me. It speaks to me, like your message. Thank you
Singing a love song to ourselves … what a great idea!
Singing loudly with love, Susan
Susan,
What can I say. You continue to share the most profound post. Thank you for sharing and you need to know that I utilize everything you offer. I will share this with my daughter who is still looking for love in all of the wrong places instead of following the example I’ve modeled for her; but, I’m certain with time, she’ll get there. Again thanks for all you’ve done to help me on my journey.
Bettye
I sure looked in a lot of wrong places until I grew tired of the pain. And that pain is what started me on this amazing spiritual journey so it wasn’t a total loss. I am sure your daughter will get there as well.
Thanks for sharing Bettye,
Susan
Aloha Susan
I have always wanted to share my compassion for others but some took advantage if that including my family. I have felt isolated when I didn’t help out and it felt I didn’t belong. I have been on a journey and with your insight it has eased the hurt and the lonsomeness of not belonging. It has been peaceful to take charge of my life and become stable and less worry. Thank you for the insights you give
Out there eventually causes us to journey within and then the magic begins. Just love yourself lots Ken.
Sending you a BIG ATA boy,
Susan
I never fail to be moved and inspired by your posts.
I am in the process of uncovering the real meaning of love, and understanding how much of my life has been fear based (and also how much has not, as I change stories). You hit the nail on the head with the comment about feeling like I do not fit in or belong. It has been a lifelong theme. I have lived in a string of amazing homes, and I still dream of the one that feels like home (or wonder why I sold the one that did feel that way). More and more I am moving toward love and learning what moving away from fear looks like, and I look forward to hearing more about your processes.
It is amazing what a difference moving toward love makes.
With love and enjoying moving toward it, Susan
Dear Susan,
I want to sincerely and profoundly thank you for this post. It has come at a perfect time, and of course, I am not surprised 🙂 as there truly are no accidents, and all is happening in its perfection. The depth of fear and a thorough feeling as though I didn’t know where I belonged surrounded me this past year, and as I took the steps into this year, trickles of that feeling still bubbles up in me. I have come a long way with allowing myself to be within my self awareness of what fears, what patterns, emotions, behaviors (and I know they can be all attached) so that I can let them be as I “move towards LOVE” as you so eloquently and perfectly expressed. Much inspiration has come as a gift from reflecting, and now I am perfecting the notes for my second book, now knowing that much of my personal journey will be included therein. Quite often, our souls choose the journey of walking what we teach so we learn it, remember it, and therefore are able to share it. As you expressed to me before, how important it is to serve self ~ to know what gives peace to self and then to serve the sweetness of that completeness within the world, always connected to that piece that brought about the peace. Thank you for shining your light, and being there for the ride of this soul’s journey into form.
Much love and blessings in all directions,
~Gabriella
So honored to be part of your soul’s journey.
With love,
Susan
this is lovely writing and very true wisdom, thanks, susan
Thanks Zanets
Aloha Susan,
Even since I was a wee child I have never belonged. I can, I think, safely say the same for the other children I was in the childrens’ homes with. This disenfranchisement is very hard to undo.
Your daily emails and reminders that I AM truly lovable are invaluable… Even when I mess up so much.
Many, many thanks.
Love and blessings,
Sonya
That feeling that we belong is a side benefit of having a love affair with ourselves.
You really are lovable, Susan
Hi Susan
I love your posts too. I so look forward to them. what a beautiful reminder to love and accept ourselves, and to be kind to ourselves.
Natalie
Thanks Natalie – be kind is a wonderful moto.
Sending you loving kindness,
Susan
Aloha Susan
Thank you so much for your wisdom, love and light.
My husband and I enjoy your readings and also your book “mastering the toltec way” daily.
With love and Namaste, Gabriela xox
Thanks Gabriela – I remember the day I finally realized what ‘spiritual practices’ really meant – doing something daily to connect with our spirit. It still makes me smile that it took me a while to connect the two.
With love, Susan
Thanks, Susan, for those words of inspiration.
I’d like to share part of a prayer I say daily that helps me move toward love:
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant and gorgeous,
talented and fabulous? Actually who are you not to be?
You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people
won’t feel insecure around you. We are meant to shine as children do.
we were born to make manifest the glory of God within us.
It is not just in some of us: it’s in everyone. And, as we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
~ Marianne Williamson
Aloha and Namaste,
Dave
Thanks Dave – beautiful Marianne Williamson is amazing
Hi Susan I am about to sell my beautiful home to be free from a marriage where I feel I do not belong. I can’t wait to be in a space where there is an abundance of peace, joy, love and happiness. All this space needs is my love for me. I know in my heart everything will fall into place when I release the fear and control that has limited me. Thankyou for your daily emails and amazing books. They inspire me daily and give me hope and guidance. G xx
Love for yourself will set you free. Looking for love out there is a sure path to pain and misery. Fill your new home with love for you and watch the magic happen. It is never too late to have a passionate love affair with yourself.
With love, Susan
Susan, thank you this is where I am, busy writing for myself today when it appeared to me, that my decisions have been taken from a fear base!!!
No wonder I an not balanced.
I have been trying to fee balanced whilst being at 90degree angle!!!!
You have made so much sense to me, and I cannot thank you enough x
I have also a new job I start on Tuesday, because I had positive thoughts from you.
The sun was so strong in aberdeen this morning I felt I was with you
Thank you Susan
Lindy x
Dear Susan,
The story about the Good Samaritan sujests that without help the half dead man could be fully dead. The question is: what is better: to pay life for enlightment or to save life. We don’t know if the Good Samaritan asked this question before helping the dying man, and what the latter may answer. The Good Samaritan had no choice, because he was GOOD, acted from love and compassion. We can not change the word in Bible: there was only this layer it considered. And may be through his deed the Godd Samaritan himself reached enlightment. On another hand, it is not only through suffering we can attain the enlightment; through good deeds, through love – not only for ourself, but this time for others – we can get to this goal also.
With love,
Roman Fin.
Thanks for sharing Roman,
I am just suggesting there are many ways to look at a situation and we certainly DON’T need to suffer to experience being fully lit up by love = enlightened. Actually suffering usually moves us away from the light of love. One theory about that parable was Jesus told the story about the Samaritan because people thought of them negatively so the act of kindness was ‘out of character’ for Samaritans. Hence a good Samaritan.
PS We are always at choice. Our main choice is will I act consciously or habitually …..