These last few days have
been for me, a dark night of the soul. Every belief I held, every
truth I thought I knew and every answer I had, have all been
shattered.
And even though I was surrounded
by people, I felt alone, abandoned and afraid.
And yet, through all of it,
I also felt higher, as though someone or something were carrying
me, lifting me, loving me. And so this time instead of running
from the pain, despair and confusion, I embraced it and what
happened surprised me. The pain, despair and confusion became
my doorway to freedom. All sorts of insights and inspirations
flooded into my consciousness. It was as though I had access
to a different time and place and was able to see with new eyes.
I have been searching for
the truth
all of my life in so many places. I thought there was only one
truth and that I came here to find that truth and that if I went
to enough seminars and took enough courses and read enough books
and did enough affirmations that somehow I would find it. Enough,
enough, enough already! It was never enough. I was never enough.
And now I have found myself in this place and I realized that
...
No one can tell you what
your truth is or how to get there.
They can only soften the path a little.
But if you are awake and alive, there will come a time when
you will have to examine your own heart.
During this time, I thought
often of Mother Teresa and what a powerful woman she was, yet
without the arrogance that one often finds in powerful people.
She was able to command large amounts of money from everywhere
and yet she was so humble. She didn't need to be the best at
anything, she just needed to BE. Simple and profound. She touched
countless lives and changed the world one person at a time.
I have an act of kindness
section on my website and for the last 7 years have been putting
acts of kindness suggestions on one of my daily pages. This morning
as I was thinking of Mother Teresa again, I sat down to my computer
and these words flowed from my fingertips and onto the screen.
Whatever you do today, remember
ONE thing.
That in the end, all that really matters is the LOVE!
Did you seek it? Did you find it?
But most importantly - DID YOU GIVE IT?
Remember the LOVE!
And then I knew that was
the truth I was looking for. Remember the LOVE. Often in our
quest for bigger and better things, we forget why we came here
in the first place. When my father died and I was sitting on
his doorstep outside waiting for the limo to arrive to take me
to his funeral, this was never more apparent. There stood his
beautiful house and car in silence. He would never walk up those
stairs and open that door again or sit behind that wheel. But
I could feel his presence. He was much bigger than all of those
things. His love was there forever. It didn't die with him. The
only thing we take with us when we leave this place is the love
and it doesn't matter if we die with a slim body and a fat bank
account. All that matters is the love.
In remembering this, I came
to know my truth. Perhaps we don't come here to learn, perhaps
we come here to teach. And the secret to success is in the love.
Then I recalled a story I heard about a woman who hated her job
and was living a joyless life of struggle. Her heart was closed
in pain, anger and resentment. She was working as a cleaning
lady. One day the old woman she worked for put on some music
on the stereo. It was music that she and her late husband used
to dance to. She was missing her mate terribly and longing for
the gentle touch of another soul. The old woman asked the cleaning
lady if she would dance with her. The cleaning lady was a bit
taken aback at first but agreed to do so. And then something
miraculous happened. In opening her arms to the old woman, she
also opened her heart and the tears and the love began to flow.
She let the love in and in that precious moment that love lifted
her spirit and transformed her life. Right after this incident
the cleaning lady's business started to take off, she got so
many calls she had to hire a huge staff to accommodate everyone
and her company grew by leaps and bounds. The struggle disappeared
and everything that she had been trying to make happen came to
her effortlessly, once her heart had been opened.
In remembering this story,
I knew that I had found my truth. The secret to success and the
secret to life is in the love. Once I knew that, I knew everything.
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