The Essence of Love: Knowing Who You Really Are

I am writing this article at the request of my 17 year old niece, Cassidy, who lost her mother (my little sister) a year ago this month. Cassidy asked me to write about the difference between loving someone and being in love with someone. So, let's take a look at love from the energetic viewpoint.

Love Through the Ages

Anyone who has read poetry or classic literature has seen love compared to a red, red rose or a summer's day; why is that? It is quite simply because love makes us feel much the same as a perfect summer's day or a beautiful flower. The real question is why? Why does love feel so much like the things that focus us on the sweetness of life? And why are sunsets, summer days full of life, and flowers so sweet to us?

Another historical aspect of love can be found in how we categorize love: brotherly love (the basis of the Masonic Order and other fraternities), the love of family, the love of country, self love, the love of friends, the love of nature and, yes, the feeling of being in love.

The Essence of Love is Alignment

Love is alignment? Alignment with what? Alignment with yourself. That's right, the essence of love is finding something or someone that focuses you back to the essence of who you really are. Moreover, romantic love or being in love is not so much about finding your soul mate as it is about finding a mate that has an energetic resonance with you that focuses you toward aligning with your own soul. Some call it inner self, some call it soul, some call it essence; the name is unimportant. What is important is that you realize that you are an eternal being and you exist in both the physical and non-physical simultaneously. In fact, the larger portion of you is always non-physical (which is why you can connect with others who are physically distant). We don't come here from the non-physical and then one day return, a portion of the essence that is "us" comes into the physical while the majority of our inner self remains in alignment with all things at the higher energetic levels of the non-physical. As teachers through history from Jesus to Ester and Jerry Hicks have communicated, the power of love is the power of attunement with who you really are. The Name of God is not "I Am That I Am," that's a mistranslation. The Name of God, the moniker of true power, is "I Am Who I Am" and love is the feeling we get when we find someone or something that focuses us back to who we are as who we are is a sweet thing indeed.

Different Kinds of Love? Not Really

There are really not different kinds of love, just different levels of alignment with who we really are. Artificial societal restrictions aside, one can be in love with anyone or anything. Every great achiever in history was in love with something or someone. That love focused them into alignment with who they really were and that alignment made them unstoppable. I once saw a greeting card that summed it up nicely: "I don't love you for who you are, I love you for who I am when I'm with you." In the end, we are attracted to a life partner and "fall in love" because they consistently focus us to see who we really are and feel the bliss that comes from that knowing.

OK, so what about family? I love my family but I had no choice about them! This is perhaps the most important lesson of all when it comes to love. We, every one of us, can love anyone we choose. Why? Because it's not about them, it's about us. If we choose to focus on the aspects of a person that makes us feel good we are choosing alignment with our inner self. And, in choosing to see the true self in them, we will find the true self in ourselves which, without exception, will result in the feeling we call love.

So, my dearest Cassidy, the difference between loving someone and being in love with someone is simply a difference of degree. Do they make you feel good (focus you toward who you really are) or do they consistently remind you that you are an all-powerful creator and the Universe is at your command? By the way, you can be in love with more than one person and gender matters not. Remember, love is about your alignment with your inner self, not them!

David Lang has been a student of the Law of Attraction for more than 30 years. To learn more about the attractive power of thoughts and language visit his site at http://abetterthought.com/

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