“Love is unlimited, but it needs scope to expand and rise; without that scope, life is unhappy.”
—Bowl of Saki, by Hazrat Inayat Khan
This quote came from a friend, and I like the thought that love is a given, and our job is to provide it with a means of moving and expanding—so we can actually experience what it feels like. I’m thinking that this is a worthy motive—to experiment with making a bigger love container, a stretchier, perhaps even more detailed, experience of what love can feel like. We hold an unconscious idea that love should come to us, that we should deserve love to flow TO us. But truly, it is our job to feel love, to extend it to others, or to invest loving attention or expectations in situations, which moves it.
If you feel your aura as a “love ball” and expand it so it becomes more inclusive, you’ll experience those people and situations inside your aura as lovable. How expansive and inclusive can we be? What people and things that we have previously excluded from love, can we now include in love—in other words, can we feel love as it exists in its particular form in what we’ve previously judged negatively?
You might try writing about how you feel you’re successful at loving, and how you feel deficient at it. Put it aside and determine to be loving in new ways. Check back in with your writing record later and see what might have changed.