By Mason Lyte

Love is the path. Love is the essential element in shifting to peace. Love is not intellectual. Love is not tangible, not traded, not consumed. Love is not an emotion. Emotions ring through our bodies with the resonance of past moments not fully received. Anger, sadness, and sorrow are some of the turbulent patterns we activate within ourselves. Love is none of these. Love is alignment.

When I let go, when I clear the swirling eddies and cross currents, when my will is contained and still, my heart opens and I feel grateful, grateful to be here, grateful for this moment alone. Alignment occurs. Love is the path. Ah, but how to build the bridge. How to encourage connection and alignment, discourage disconnection and quell fears.

If Love is the path, what can be done to encourage others to walk this path? Certainly being one's own best example is the centerpiece. Also, this encouragement must be without anticipation or judgement. It must be without effort, just as Love itself is without effort. Yet there is a use of the will. There is direction, commitment, paying attention to the unfolding of events, and moving in concert with them.

Love is not a verb. There is nothing to do directly. There is a cadence to beat out through the harmony of shared moments. These shared moments seed the path in others. No book, video or computer program can pass a message that will see the path, because love is not contained in a message.

The path is seeded by introspection, but not by the message: "Look inside yourself." To encourage the path of love is to impart the joy of living, from the center of one's own being. The path is seeded by sanctuary, but not by the message: "You are safe." To encourage the path of love is to impart the revitalization that comes from the ancient and undying connection that is awareness. The path is seeded by inclusion, but not by the message: "Take interest in others." To encourage the path of love is to impart the expansiveness felt when one is in service to others.

There is no recipe, no map, no message that you can pass along. All that has been tried. Description of experience can raise curiosity, but never consciousness. The path of Love is found only in the doing. And there is much to be done, discovered only as you move along the path.

Movement is the key, movement of the body from within, beating out the cadence with gentle movements begins this path. Taking one's will and deciding to be gentle, to develop a gentleness flowing from within begins this path. Letting go of expectations, embracing the elements that are before you without reservation begins this path.

Movement is the key because Love is dynamic, never static. The demands are great on this path. The greatest demand of all is to mix joyfulness with the rising effort of this next challenge, to suspend judgement on the fairness of the effort required, and embrace it fully, embrace it with a vibrance that will resonate through each moment of this task, not merely in the relief of it's completion.

How can Love have demands? Love cannot be contained, cannot be used, or leveraged against. To walk the path of Love is to seek alignment. So the demands come from the very nature of Love itself. Love demands nothing, yet if one holds back, defends, equivocates, Love does not follow. Love cannot co-exist with vacillation. Love flows from the steadfast. Love flows from a foundation of strength woven with gentleness. The path of Love is not a passive way. The path requires effort, thought and action. All of one's resources must be used in the listening. The path itself will guide the action, but the listening must be brilliant.

There is for each of us alive today, and has been for all who came before, a single unique path. One person, one path, each one so very different, so incomparable to all else in the world. And yet we do not walk it. Security is not on this path, and fear brings desire for security. I turn away with fear. And yet there is no substitute, no other path for me. I can only wander without aim, until I return. Why is this so? How can Love create a path that is unique to me alone?

Love is the path. And by walking it you become intertwined with all else in the world. Your unique and irreplaceable self moves in concert with others. Your discover how your path has become vital in the whole. The results of your actions resonates without bounds. Distance collapses as your presence flows with the presence of others. You become more fully forms as you walk this path. You begin to know yourself. And you begin to recognize that this dynamic alignment not only guides you, but replenishes you. Love expands the life force in your eyes, and sweetens the taste of the moment on your lips. Love harmonizes the sounds playing on your ears, and softens the texture of the living carpet passing under your feet. Love is not life. Your are life, from the very center of it all. But to walk and awaken to all that should be yours, to drink in your participation, you must walk the path of Love.

Love is the path.ã1999 Mason Lyte
email: onlyte@ciso.com
published by Creations in Consciousness