My philosophy is Love

Good morning,

My life has been the story of turning a MESS into a MESSage. I guessed you can say I’ve take my story and gone from messed to blessed.

My entire philosophy is based on one principle, and that is LOVE.
When your philosophy is love based and the centre of all your teachings and core belief then the following guidelines apply:

1. Guilt, Fear and  Shame are no longer emotions that keep you awake at night.

2. You can no longer earn the title of victim. It is completely stripped away from you. No one does anything to you, but rather reflects to you your own inner state. In other words, nothing happens to you, but through you. You cannot point fingers. No one can hurt you, break your heart, treat you bad, insult you, etc.

3. You see everyone as your Guru/Master/Teacher. Most people think this is an insult to the above mentioned people, as they see a G/M/T as someone who is wise, elderly and sits in a place of worship and is ordained. But this is not true. A G/M/T is one who pushes you to be the best that you can be. This does not mean in a “positive” way. (There are just too many positive thinking addicts out there. Most people I know want to stay away from negative people, I want to stay away from positive people.) An old Zen quote says, “What hurts the most teaches soonest.” So who is teaching you to realise the magnificent being you are.

4. You will find yourself with thoughts of: Tolerance (for other peoples values, beliefs and opinions), No judgment (you are quite content with the world and people as it is, you just allow it to be), Forgiveness (first for all others, until you realise it is only you that you need to forgive), Patience (you will find that faith gives you strength, and patience is an automatic process).

5. You need not know a person to share joy with them. You also need not know a person to share pain with them. You connect heart to heart with people. Love really is the glue that keeps us all together.  Everyone wants to share, whether it is the joy or pain. Joy because there’s so much of it, and pain because a sorrow shared is sorrow halved.

6. There are no thoughts of revenge, or waiting for “karma” to do its job. Remember everyone is you, so hurting them is really hurting you. Like the Buddha said, “Anger is like trying to throw a hot coal at someone else, in the end, we only burning ourselves.”

7. You constantly asking yourself, “How can I make people, who have less than I do, more comfortable?” You engage in service to community and the world. You cannot stop yourself from serving. You were born to love and serve. Nothing more.

Let love be the reason. Let love be the season. Let Love be your philosophy. Let love be the excuse. Let Love be the inspiration. Let Love be your everything…

Share love. Be love.

Love,
H