Seems like I should have written this in mid-February….but then again, every day is about love.
Is it about the love that is “all hearts and chocolate” kind of love? I don’t quite think so.
Our material world tries to capture it, but given it’s all in the actual heart, I’m not sure Hallmark can do it justice. For someone who has “advanced education…” (that’s the box I check on all those forms–hahahahaha–basically which means anything “beyond a Bachelor’s Degree”)… I had been reinforced for years and years and years for my “thinking” about things. I’d often be asked for my analysis of “this person” and “that disorder” with questions like: “Karin, what do you think of this?”
I have led with my head and my mind and all my “good thinking” my whole life!
15 years ago I started practicing yoga…I started to become connected more and more to my body. I started to become connected more and more to my spirit. Body-Mind-Spirit…. Each just as important as the other. What I started to realize through this practice is the immense importance of my heart and love.
At the end of the day, it’s all we really have. isn’t it? When you sit at the bedside of a dying loved one, is it the things that they didn’t accomplish or acquire that they regret, or is it a relationship that went badly that they wish they would have worked on?
Life starts literally with love. We were conceived in love, and our lives end with love.
I’ve been on a journey for the past several years to simplify my life… and I keep coming back to the song lyric, “All you need is love.” Yep, every time. I don’t need the big fancy house. I don’t need the big SUV. I don’t need the massive amounts of clothing and stuff.
What I can never get enough of is love. Its the pursuit of love that underlies happiness, perhaps. That is what I have figured out so far, and the journey has been layered with smoke and mirrors. (Yes this purse will make you a tad happier!) My compelling search for greater fulfillment and meaning in my life continues… and I think… no, I know… it will be layered with so much love.
