What is my favorite way to express love?

Being it – being love, being open, being receptive, being unconditional with the world and the people around me is really the most amazing way of expressing love to me. It is mind blowing what happens when you bring yourself into a heart-based awareness and choose to just be present with the things and people in your world. Judgment free, conditions free, just pure being, just being that infinitely open center within my own being. This kind of openness, this ability within us to allow everything to be just as it is, to allow everyone to be just as they are, and interact with them from that open place is the most liberating experience I have come to discover. It feels to me like whatever I say or do from this space, whatever I extend or express is a kind of love uninhabited by the usual mental restraints, conditions or definitions, the do’s and don’ts, we place on the love that flows through us endlessly and indiscriminately. Being this kind of Love, that’s my favorite way of expressing it

Reasons of Love
It is by caring about things that we infused the world with importance. This provides us with stable ambitions and concerns; it marks our interests and our goals. The importance that our caring creates for us defines the framework of standards and aims in terms of which we endeavor to conduct our lives. A person who cares about something is guided, as his attitudes and his actions are shaped, by his continuing interest in it. Insofar as he does care about certain things, this determines how he thinks it important for him to conduct his life. The totality of the various things that a person cares about, together with his ordering of how important to him they are, effectively specifies his answer to the question of how we live.

Harry G. Frankfurt is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Princeton. He wrote those thoughts in his 2004 book, The Reasons of Love. Professor Frankfurt is explaining how my beliefs, along with my emotions create my reality. The importance of caring is deeply rooted in my belief structure. Everyone cares about something; I may not agree with what a person cares about, but that is an association, or a judgment related to my personal belief structure. It seems I experience this physical dimension for different reasons of love.

Each person chooses to care about certain things, even though it may not be obvious to them that they do care or believe about them. There is so much care that surrounds me at times, I misplace and even think I misuse my caring and my beliefs, but without them I would not experience what I chose to experience. As difficult as beliefs may be, I always answer the question of how I want to live through my choices created by my beliefs.

The importance of caring is an individual association. I tend to group caring and beliefs in a linear fashion, but I do that with everything. My own feeling of separation creates a hierarchy and I move it around at will, depending on my ever expanding belief system. I am guided by my emotions; I tend to react to them, rather than listen to them. I construct mental ideas around beliefs, and they manifest in some way. Those manifestations are usually what I want to believe, even though I tell my self, I want to believe something else. I attach my caring and beliefs to experiences, and then I put them in a shrine and use them to justify my self, when no justification is needed. I even second guess my self about caring based on what I externally see, rather than what I internally sense. I do all this to remember how to live, not just in this three dimensional world, but in all my focused worlds.

The reasons for love are as diverse, as they are the same. My expressions of caring and my believable and unbelievable actions about caring are all reasons of love; I just forget they are, so I can experience contrast in order to know other aspects of my self. I always effectively answer the question how to live in each moment, but I may not hear that answer until I begin to listen to my self.

Being fully present with my beloved is the most important thing I can do to show love. Remaining present and focused on another person without a care as to what is happening around or within me is a challenge, but the rewards to be reaped are great. I also love to receive this from another person as it is exceedingly rare and precious.

By sharing–whether sharing comes in the form of giving or in the form of doing, it is, to me, the ultimate expression of love.

You can share an experience with someone, you can share knowledge and expertise. You can share in someone’s pain when they need a friend.

Ultimately, you share your love when you share any and all of those things.

Thank you for allowing me to share!

“A sane madness”