One of the most creative aspects of love is the ability to cherish - as a worthy end in itself - the magnetic energy that occurs between ourselves and others as we move throughout the day. In its more unenlightened moments, our culture believes unfortunately that the only way to deal with this kind of energy - which the Greeks called "eros" - is either to suppress it or to act on it. Because of this uninspired mindset, all of us miss out on the lovely sense of connection that occurs whenever we compliment one another, offer a brief knowing gaze, or touch the other on the shoulder as we point their attention to a third object. When we take a sacred stance toward one another, we act from a Namaste' perspective in which the Divine in us highlights and appreciates the Divine in the other, and vice versa. Rather than act from a "grasping" kind of energy in which the other person senses we want something - or some kind of response - from them, we instead let ourselves diffuse and become transparent to the beauty and sacredness of their presence. Here, it is as through a compliment is offered, yet with NO ONE giving it! How amazing is THAT!
Photo: Crocus flower blooming after pushing up through a dead leaf, at Naropa University, Boulder, CO - yesterday, on February 13, 2015
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