This is it! The launch of my new website, happily timed to coincide with the release of my new book Love Equals Power, which should be hitting the shelves in Australia in the next month or two.
So, love and power? What the heck do these have to do with each other? Who, with a strong grip on, and feet firmly grounded in, modern life of the 21st century could put these two disparate notions into the same sentence, let alone link them with an equivalence? What does it mean, not just hypothetically, but for all of us and the world?
Unbelievable as it may seem, I am actually making the claim that the only true power in this universe is love and that the only way we can create the life we truly desire - you know, the life that is filled with all the success, wealth, beauty, power, peace of our fondest dreams - is found in understanding, and living, love.
Clearly I’m not talking about love as most of us understand it. In fact, what I’m talking about has little in common with what usually parades as ‘love.’ Because of the prevalence of certain negative behaviours such as control, manipulation, co-dependency, and even hatred and violence which are the hallmarks of so many ‘love’ relationships, many of us don’t even realise what true love is. Although we all know something of love - assuming we have someone or something in our lives that we do love - what we know tends to be only a mere fragment of love in its infinitude.
Love is the underlying power of the entire universe because love is the essence of all being. All the phenomena of the physical world are merely symbolic of their spiritual counterparts, thus gravity could be said to be to the physical manifestation of love because love is to the spiritual universe what gravity is to the physical.
The so-called ‘loving’ person is often seen as namby-pamby, weak, pathetic with no personal boundaries, seemingly gullible, and vulnerable to the people in their lives who are cynical and cruel enough to take advantage of their good will. They appear powerless with no relevance in the circles of power and influence. In the social hierarchy they sit squarely on the bottom rung. When children and adolescents begin to envisage the people they want to become, being loving tends to be overlooked in favour of the more dazzling options of rich, successful, beautiful or famous.
In fact, many people do not begin to understand the significance of love in becoming all the things they want to be and have in life. It is rarely recognised that love and power are inextricably connected.
Come back next week to read more about how love - true, spiritual love - can bring all the power you ever dreamed of.
