Love never dies, just fades away or gets temporarily misplaced, for how can what rules life ever be lost?
In 1981 I began my seminar career. I became addicted to rooms of people wanting to keep love alive. Wanting to feel free to tell the truth. To learn, develop and teach unconditional love. It was the love that put you and me at the soft core of our heart.
Where acceptance, appreciation and miracles existed, and fear became False Evidence Appearing Real. Where we were encouraged to act, to share our experience, and to readily accept change.
The wonders and magic of the transformational seminars still exist, as we all returned to our everyday life, back to the job, or no job, to the significant other or not, and to those habits embedded in us from childhood.
I wanted to maintain the friendships, the values and know that without practice gravity would return us to the ‘same old same.’ The in-same-ity.
Now, decades later I still send love to each of you and give three reminders of how To keep Love Alive.
My first reminder, I start my days with a cup of tea and words of wisdom from a hero of the Beat Generation, Jack Kerouac. He worked hard at keeping love alive, took us On the Road, opened the books on the Dharma, and shared the wonders of a cup of tea.
The first sip is joy,
The second is gladness.
The third sip serenity.
The fourth madness (the other end of the spectrum from in-same-ity).
The fifth sip is ecstasy.
I love to share a cuppa tea.
The second reminder, in the early seminars, new age music was just starting, and wise producers of transformation found a musical gem for Sunday morning with Pachelbel’s cannon. Here are three masterful versions of a second reminder:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvNQLJ1_HQ0 with original instruments.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Af372EQLck with a painting of Pachelbel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjA5faZF1A8 With electric guitar--WOW!
My third insight to keep love alive arrived recently from saying yes to helping a friend build a network of speakers and mentoring the ‘shy one’. The one so full of love she cooks it, laughs a lot, and gets the vegetables to sacrifice themselves to keep love alive.
“There is one more secret I like to add when I prepare food. While I am cooking, I talk to the food …it sounds weird, but it really works….(food) becomes tastier and tastier, becomes yummy….” For example, ’Mr. Potato you are becoming so tasty. And you Miss Onion, not to sharp and bring tears to my eyes. And my pretty Pepper please keep your shy blush and join the others in the soup of love.” Thank you, Rumi Takenouchi for teaching to be a chatterbox cook to the food, keeping love alive.
As a bonus, learn to give more and receive more. Accepting the love coming to you and being thankful. It is part of the Golden Rule, knowing how you want to be treated helps keep love alive.
