Have you ever wondered where your thoughts come from? We would like to think they are ours, or that they come from Spirit, that part of us that is infinite goodness and perfection, but when we start examining them one by one, we realize that is impossible, because they don’t look or feel like infinite goodness and perfection.
Most of the thoughts we think aren’t even ours, but we keep thinking them and believing them. They don’t tell us the truth – they just tell us our best guess at truth, or someone else’s best guess at truth.
Most of our thoughts, ours or not, don’t come from the divinity within us, because the thoughts of Divinity are all about love, since it IS love. Love is the highest vibration, even if some teachings say it’s compassion. It all depends on the meaning we give to the words Love and Compassion.
Love has so many interpretations. It can mean romantic love, love that we have for our children, for our pets, for nature, love of God, they are all different feelings we have, but the one common denominator to all of those nuances is, that it is always a form of love that is dependent on some condition being present.
Unconditional love, divine love is an attribute of Spirit and it is always present, regardless of any condition, and it’s not a feeling, which can always change to less love, or no love, or more love, but it’s a state of being that’s unchanging, infinite and eternal. It does not need anything outside of itself to just BE itself.
Our feelings of love for somebody or something outside of us have their source in that deep state of love, or they could not exist. But they rarely, if ever, express the fullness of unconditional love Spirit has for us.
Feelings are like waves on the ocean, always coming and going; sometimes soft and gentle, sometimes tumultuous and agitated, on occasion when a storm arises, crashing against the shore, or like a tsunami, destroying everything on its path. But the waves don’t affect the fundamental, state of being of the ocean, which deep down, remains calm and still, not affected by the surface turmoil.
In the same way, the feelings that agitate us, the emotions that sometimes overwhelm us can never change our fundamental state of being which is love, regardless of the havoc those emotions wreak on our lives. We then have to rebuild what has been destroyed, hopefully on the solid foundation of our true nature, and not on the unstable waves of our emotions.
