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I believe love is one of the most complex ideas we have in our society. Plenty of different languages have multiple words to describe the concept of love. The first mention of love in the Bible is not between god and man, but Adam and Eve where their love led to a pregnancy and the birth of their first child Cain. This is just my NIV translation of the Hebrew Bible, but I find it interesting that the first mention of love is a human to human interaction and not the divine love preached about across cultures. I believe the love Adam and Eve shared was a unique combination of intimacy, transformation, and belonging that only these two shared. Sticking within the framework of the creation story, I’m sure it helped that Adam and Eve only had each other and were given a divine mission to complete lol. Either way, the initial love of Adam and Eve, is one culture’s storytelling of how spirituality and vulnerability originated.

Sacred Language

In the traditions I am familiar with, I believe the storytelling of the relationship of the divine and humanity is full of intimacy. Sometimes it’s a parent and child relationship and sometimes it’s a romantic relationship, yet I believe the intimacy shows up in different ways. Through care, support and sometimes even children, love shared through intimacy leads to transformative stories inviting them to belong to a community. I believe the connection formed through this storytelling is something like a sacred intimacy, a sacred language not only seen through words but through interactions that impact the generations that follow.

In the Highest Self Podcast, Sahara Rose and Sah d’Simone get together to discuss questions about love¹. The two discuss how a relationship is a choice and how the sad thing about love is that it gives us the opportunity to grow but sometimes the path is too scary to walk or even choose². The two share love can allow someone to become the person they are meant to be, but some people choose to rather distract themselves³. They elaborate further, stating humans tend to do the thing that’s easier, and stay in relationships that are safe and comfortable⁴. Continuing on this topic, the two share that sometimes these relationships limit the highest form of who one is meant to be⁵. The two describe love as a dangling carrot for one to get there, and how some see this carrot and quit at the sight of how difficult it will be to attain the carrot⁶. Using this analogy, the two change course sharing their opinion of different levels of love⁷. They share their experience with dating advice, most of it being for basic love, a checklist that needs to be completed, and a vetting process to see if the person is worth dating⁸. However, the two counter basic dating advice, if someone is aiming for a sacred union in their life, they believe it’s important to notice the mystery the figurative school of love teaches⁹. The two believe this mystery is one of the most divine teaching love will give, taking one to their deepest shadows¹⁰.

Sahara Rose and Sah d’Simone threw a huge curveball at me this week. Being fully transparent, I strongly dislike writing about love, due to how complex and coercive I believe love can be. However, I have been told when life gives you lemons, you have to make lemonade. Being 100% honest, I struggle with distinguishing the lines between basic love and a spiritual union. Being 100% curious, I find it intriguing that everyone has a different criteria for validating someone being worth committing too. In my growth journey, I’m hoping to enjoy the mystery of love when it is thrown my way, shifting my perspective and expression of relationships from those I care about to relationships I revere with a scared attitude and language. I believe this is my version of squeezing lemons to relish refreshing lemonade. I recommend you find your own path to discovering the mystery of love in your own life.

Storied Language

Thankfully, my internal spiritual journey hasn’t only been focused on the aspect of love in a relationship sense. In my day to day work, I constantly have to remind myself to show compassion to the students I care for and most importantly, showing compassion to myself. I believe the more compassion I show for myself, the more that compassion leaks from my spirit into the interactions I have with other people. Alongside compassion, I have been trying to grow in my creativity, allowing the creativity to move my compassion vice versa. I believe the combination of slipping in compassion and staggering in creativity have allowed me to fully express myself in the communities I trust and feel understood.

In The Sadhguru Podcast, Sadhguru shares his experiences with transformation¹¹. Sadhguru believes if individual human beings do not transform, there will be no transformation within our world¹². Sadhguru elaborates further, the world is just a word, an abstract concept, made up of individual human beings¹³. Sadhguru moves along, stating if human transformation did not lead to world transformation, it would lead to people shouting slogans about world peace¹⁴. However, Sadhguru counters, declaring if one does not know how to keep their mind peaceful, where will the peaceful world come from¹⁵? Sadhguru goes through more slogans, people shouting, desiring a loving, joyful, blissful, world, without looking for these qualities within themselves¹⁶. Sadhguru believes this is a deceit people have used upon themselves, thinking they can transform the world¹⁷. Sadhguru affirms, the only creature that needs transformation is the human being, that you need to be transformed¹⁸. Sadhguru claims you are the number one human being in your life, and that human being needs to be transformed. Sadhguru believes there’s a possibility to transform the world, if one is willing to be transformed in peace, love, joy and bliss¹⁹. Sadhguru hypothesizes this world transformation might have occurred already in a small measure if the individual has transformed themselves²⁰. Sadhguru proves his hypothesis, declaring that because an individual is a small part of the world, their transformation contributes to the transformation of the world²¹. Sadhguru claims the deceit of transforming the world without transforming yourself is one that doesn’t just harm the individual, but harms others as well²². Sadhguru elaborates further, this deceit leads to slogans that are shared and then forgotten about²³. Sadhguru recognizes that the transformation of oneself is a life-long commitment and encourages others to embrace this commitment²⁴.

Another podcast, and another huge smack in the face. Sadhguru shares how the spiritual shift some people, like myself, seek in the world, starts within the individual. The relationships I seek with others, first starts with the relationship I foster with myself. Even though collective spiritual understanding and expression is something I would like to share with others, Sadhguru points out it’s important to fully invest in one’s own journey first. I believe the narrative we shape within our own transformation journey is more important than the way we envision the transformation of the world. I believe the life we live is an ongoing story to the transformation that occurs within us, as opposed to the change in our verbal language.

Love Language

Question love. Embody language. Transform your sacred. Ripple through your story. Understand what you’re becoming. Inhale intentionally. Express what you perceive as real. Originate your divinity. Echo through taboos. Eternalize your work. Find mystery in what’s going on inside. Explore your twin story. Communicate with collective souls.

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