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for some the phrase “Be Love” may seem a bit naive or over sentimental, but this is a misunderstanding of love. love is not primarily a feeling, like affection or attraction, or a sense of liking something or someone. love is a choice, a decision we make to prioritize the well-being of others without exclusion, in recognition of our interdependent relationship to them & to all life. it is a commitment to a life of non-harming. what could be more courageous, more intentional, more work oriented than that? it’s a practice that is relatively unending in its application. life will always give us more opportunity to expand our heart & its capacity to love, challenging our biases & efforts to make solid & fixed what is movement – what we can’t hold onto. loving is allowing life.

the far easier path, though always eventually unsuccessful, is to try to live by force & control. but this only leads to harm, destruction, & suffering. so the antidote in a time when those in power live by force & attempt at control, causing immense harm & destruction through their cruelty, is to choose love, to be love for a world in need.

at the same time, interestingly, love is who we are at our core, so when we choose to love, to be love, we are choosing to come back to our original nature before delusion, before fear, greed, & aggression. we are realigning with & affirming life. it is a choice toward harmony, rather than the choice of domination, made by some, which results in chaos & destruction.

may we choose to be love in this time as an antidote to forces of domination & chaos.

~j

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