There is more love around.\u00a0 I can feel it. \u00a0Or is there more love in myself?<\/p>\n
Love and joy have no upper limit. You can carry only a certain amount of\u00a0hatred, sadness and grief inside you, because at some point they will all\u00a0change into love. This will happen either during this life or the next one.\u00a0Universal love is infinite freedom. It is freedom to choose and to learn\u00a0from one\u2019s own choices.<\/p>\n
You are never alone. You are always accompanied by\u00a0love which manifests itself in different energies and forms of life. What\u00a0you feel and perceive is different from what reality is. Your feelings and\u00a0perceptions are but partial truths. The more you manifest love, the more you\u00a0will feel and perceive yourself to be part of a whole, which is a good deal\u00a0greater than the world you are living in.<\/p>\n
There is much more love in the world than what is usually thought. People would be able to live in a much greater love for themselves, each other, nature and the whole planet if the distorted structures in our societies all over the world did not limit and\u00a0suppress the expression of love.<\/p>\n
Someone says that we are living in a loveless world. I say that we are\u00a0living in abundant love. It is a different thing than whether we are able\u00a0to discover and recognize the abundant love in ourselves. We are living in\u00a0a world of illusions. The value system around us may rather be more\u00a0destructive than loving. We are being sold self-esteem without love. Our\u00a0yearning for love is appealed through our self-esteem.<\/p>\n
Commercials and advertisements make us feel unhappy unless we acquire this and that. Those that we call\u00a0 charity organizations may say, \u201dBuy yourself a good feeling, donate for charity.\u201d\u00a0 Love has been turned into merchandise. Yet love is\u00a0free of cost. We can show love and radiate love around us all the time, and\u00a0totally free of charge. If you saw the impact of love energies,\u00a0you would\u00a0understand their power. The spirit is stronger than matter.<\/p>\n
Joy is free.<\/p>\n
Joy is love.<\/p>\n
Joy is in your attitude.<\/p>\n
The more you feed joy and love, the more you will be them. This must happen\u00a0unselfishly, without compulsion or artificiality. The world is full of\u00a0pretension, smiles and promises which are not real. The world is also full\u00a0of honesty, smiles and being which are real. You must recognize them in you\u00a0and in others. You must recognize yourself. Do you know yourself?\u00a0 Many\u00a0think that they recognize themselves, their expectations and needs although\u00a0they only recognize the needs and expectations that the environment has
\ncreated for them.<\/p>\n
Can you distinguish real love from market values? You can\u00a0if you only want to. Can you distinguish between desire and love? For love is much more of the attitude \u201chow I love\u201d rather than \u201chow I am loved.\u201d \u00a0The\u00a0need to be loved has prevailed for too long over expression of real love in\u00a0humanity. All kinds of means for being loved have been and are being used. \u00a0People do things, buy products, and choose attitudes in order to be loved.<\/p>\n
In the course of history many distorted attitudes have become generally\u00a0accepted laws and patterns of behavior. The world is so full of these norms\u00a0restricting love and freedom, rites and attitudes that an individual who\u00a0expresses love may seem as unfit for the society\u2026because love and freedom\u00a0are one.<\/p>\n
When we express love, we are free. There is no wrong in love. Real\u00a0freedom is absolute love. The notion of freedom as well as that of love is\u00a0distorted in our world. There are attempts to buy and attain both of them\u00a0in ways that are nothing but delusion when compared with real love and\u00a0freedom. In the most extreme case, nations think that they can buy freedom\u00a0by reinforcing their armed forces. In doing so, are they imagining that they\u00a0are buying love, too? For freedom is love. Freedom attained through\u00a0life-destroying methods is dependency and fear. Fear is a challenge for\u00a0reaching real love. Love has no fear. How could love have fear because love\u00a0is eternal, infinite power and wisdom? Infinite love, infinite wisdom, and\u00a0infinite power are in you. So why would you be afraid?<\/p>\n
Fear is not in you. It is in the societal, social and economic structures. Fear is energy which maintains these structures. These structures are so distorted that they are\u00a0sustained by life-destroying energies. They are antiquated energies which\u00a0are having their death struggle, when at the same time life-constructing\u00a0energies of love are manifesting themselves ever more widely.<\/p>\n
(Timo Teide is an artist, author, and spiritual guide who lives in Finland. \u00a0He has had dozens of art exhibitions and he has done meditative music and\u00a0books about love. The healing power of art and the multidimensional impact of colors, forms and sounds are the most important elements of his art. Visit: www.teidegallery.com. Contact Timo: <\/em>timo.teide@gmail.com<\/em><\/a>.)<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There is more love around.\u00a0 I can feel it. \u00a0Or is there more love in myself? Love and joy have no upper limit. You can carry only a certain amount of\u00a0hatred, sadness and grief inside you, because at some point they will all\u00a0change into love. This will happen either during this life or the next […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[170],"tags":[760,425,761,191,52,762],"class_list":["post-3301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guest-column","tag-fear","tag-freedom","tag-illusions","tag-love","tag-the-global-conversation","tag-timo-teide"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3301"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3311,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3301\/revisions\/3311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}