To Begin........
Breathe deeply, slowly and rhythmically.
Open your heart to tranquility.
Empty your mind of thought.
Allow love to enter.
Now Listen....
Listen to the Heart of True Love
True love is not something one does.
It is not something one has.
It is not a thing.
It is not an action.
It is not even a feeling.
It is the cause.
There is no strife in true love.
It is always at ease.
Listen to the Heart of True Love
The true lover knows herself.
She doesn't try to convince others.
She is content with herself.
She doesn't need the approval of others.
Because she accepts herself,
The whole world accepts her.
She doesn't think of herself as superior
Because she knows herself as a conduit
rather than a cause.
She is gene rous and graciously attracts opportunities
to be of service.
She doesn't care to possess anything or anyone,
because she knos
she already belongs to everyting and everyone
Listen to the Heart of True Love
When the true lover runs into difficulty,
she stops and gives herself to it.
She doesn't focus on her own comfort;
thus problems are really no problem to her.
Listen to the heart of true love.
Love is equally available to the good and the bad person,
but to differing effects.
Love is an inexhaustible treasure to the good person.
No matter how lavishly it is bestowed,
there is always more.
Love is a refuge to the bad person.
it doesn’t judge and endlessly offers yet another chance.
Listen to the Heart of True Love
Love is the mother.
It is also the child.
As the mother, love gives birth to all things;
nourishes and cares for them,
comforts and protects them;
guides and cherishes them.
As the child, love springs forth into life,
unconscious and perfect.
Love takes on a body, grows into fullness;
recognizes itself,
and returns to its source,
only to become again.
Listen to the Heart of True Love
Definitions cannot circumscribe love.
We cannot say directly.
Love both surrounds and pervades everything.
It existed before the universe was born.
Love is before everything.
Everything is born of love.
Love is the heart of all things.
It is so common.
Listen to the Heart of True Love
Love alone endures.
Eventually all things, all experience, all memory vanish into it.
It is formless and perfect.
It is serene, unchanging, infinite and eternally present.
It nourishes worlds both visible and invisible, yet makes no claim upon them.
It existed before all names,
but we call it love.
It is pure mystery.
Listen to the Heart of True Love
Love, as the great mother, gives birth to infinite worlds.
The more it is used, the more it produces.
It is inexhaustible.
You can use it in any way you please.
It can only be found within yourself.
Surrender, and love will come of its own accord.
Listen to the Heart of True Love
The true lover is the greatest servant.
She is available to all people and doesn't reject anyone.
She is ready to make use of any situation and doesn't waste anything.
She has no fixed plans and desires no specific outcome.
She follows her intuition.
Free from concepts, she is truly useful and valuable.
Listen to the Heart of True Love
Because she is so rich and her treasure so valuable,
the true lover takes great pleasure in sharing her bounty.
The more she does for others,
the happier she is.
The more she gives to others,
the wealthier she is.
The true lover carefully fulfills her own responsibilities and corrects her own mistakes.
By demanding nothing of others,
she is never in lack.
Listen to the Heart of True Love
Love is a flow which must constantly be given away.
Its source is a mystery.
Because she knows that there is no end to her treasure,
the lover can keep giving.
Without expecting return,
she is free.
Listen to the Heart of True Love
What mystery, the beneficence of the lover!
She holds no concern for wealth,
yet the people around her prosper.
She finds no need to conform to religion or philosophy,
yet the people around her become serene.
She gives little attention to issues of the common good,
yet good becomes as common as water.
She simply lives for love and love encompasses and sustains all.
Listen to the Heart of True Love
The true lover is like the newborn child.
Her spirit is forever fresh.
She doesn't worry.
She is unaware of herself and acts without thinking.
She lets things come and go effortlessly.
She is in love with the world,
but doesn't know why.
She constantly explores,
but doesn't expect to find anything.
Listen to the Heart of True Love
There is nothing more enduring than true love.
She who fully embraces love,
will likewise endure.
Her name will be honored for generations.
Her effect will continue forever.
Listen to the Heart of True Love
The wise lover lives lightly in the world,
without attachment to either hopes or fears.
She knows the world is forever out of control.
She doesn't force issues.
She simply allows life to take its course,
then harvests the results .
Listen to the Heart of True Love
The true lover gives herself to the present
and delights in what the moment brings.
Her mind holds no illusions.
Her body is without resistance.
Her actions flow from a source deep within.
Listen to the Heart of True Love
The true lover lives in love.
That is what gives her radiance.
Love is deep and dark and empty.
How can it make her radiant?
Because she lets it.
Listen to the Heart of True Love
Like water,
love nourishes all beings.
By seeking the low places,
love shapes and nourishes the world.
Love is not a condition to be pursued or achieved.
It arises naturally, from humble origins.
Because she is truly useful to all beings,
the true lover is respected by all.
Listen to the Heart of True Love
If you accept the world as it is,
love will become luminous within you.
You will return to your primal purpose.
With love,
you become the perfect tool for the will of the Creator.
Everything is possible.
Listen to the Heart of True Love
The world is a sacred place.
It cannot be improved.
If you try, you will ruin it.
It has always been this way.
Listen to the Heart of True Love
To love and be loved is the breath of creation
This rhythm is the cause of all existence.
It comes from and returns to the realm of nothingness.
It has no outer or inner limit.
Love is subtle beyond all understanding.
Listen to the Heart of True Love
Love is your destiny, your origin, your life.
You cannot comprehend it.
You cannot grasp it.
It has no beginning.
It will never end.
Listen to the Heart of True Love
See life as it really is.
Do not try to control it.
Forcing things always leads to disharmony, imbalance, conflict
and finally to disaster.
Premature action creates failure.
Trying to grasp and possess causes the loss.
Trying to dominate events goes against the current of love.
Love sets its own natural course.
There is no strife in true love.
It is always at ease.
Listen to the Heart of True Love
Can you step back from your own mind and observe yourself?
Can you deal with matters that seem important by letting events take their course?
Can you love people and teach them without imposing your hopes and fears upon them?
Can you let your body become as supple and responsive as a new born baby's?
Can you let go of the mind's compulsions and keep to the original reality?
Can you relax in calm attentiveness and allow your vision to see nothing but the light?
With true love you can do all this effortlessly.
Listen to the Heart of True Love
Possessive love is not eternal love.
Eternal love is real.
Experiencing it is reality.
It is the same everywhere.
Listen to the Heart of True Love
When true love becomes present in your life,
you will become genuine.
When it becomes present in your family,
your family will flourish.
When it becomes present in your world,
you will see paradise.
Nothing is more sacred than love.
Nothing!
Listen to the Heart of True Love
Simplicity, Patience and Compassion;
these are your greatest lessons.
Simple in thoughts and actions,
you rest in the source of your being.
Patient with both friends and enemies,
you accept what is.
Compassionate toward yourself and others,
you are at one with your world.
These are also your greatest teachings.
Listen to the Heart of True Love
The world sometimes seems full of difficulty.
Love is the easy way.
Naming is the beginning of separation and the origin of manifestations.
When things are out of balance,
breathe deeply and become serene.
Reside,
once again,
at the center.
Return to love.
Listen to the Heart of True Love
Love speaks for itself.
Teaching without words is the skill of the lover.
She allows things to happen.
Because she lets go of her personal desires,
she is perfectly fulfilled.
The lover is respected,
because she is content.
Listen to the Heart of True Love
The skillful lover simply allows the world to be.
In not doing she expresses herself completely.
Doing nothing,
she leaves nothing undone.
Centering herself in love,
her world transforms itself in its own natural rhythms.
Love never does anything,
yet through it all things are done.
Listen to the Heart of True Love
When you fully open your heart to love,
you become love,
and can express love completely.
Open yourself to love and trust your natural responses.
If you want love to come,
then love.
Everything will fall into place.
Listen to the Heart of True Love
True lovers willingly give up everything for love,
and thus have everything.
Only in being lived by love,
can you be yourself.
You know this is true.
Listen to the Heart of True Love
Love the world.
Love it as yourself.
For in truth it is.
The world is but a robe for the mystery within.
The body is its instrument.
Love sees through these eyes, listens through these ears, dances through this body.
The world is its sacred temple.
Honor it!
Listen to the Heart of True Love
In the absence of desire,
we experience the flow of eternal love.
Caught in desire,
we see only the manifestations.
Eternal love and the manifestations arise from the same source.
The source is nothingness, emptiness within emptiness, beyond all comprehension.
It is the beginning of all understanding.
Listen to the Heart of True Love
Some say that this teaching of love is nonsense, lofty but impractical.
But to those of less judgment,
who patiently look within themselves,
an understanding of the inner meaning shows that this teaching makes perfect sense.
And those who put this teaching into practice,
find that it has roots that run deep.
Listen to the Heart of True Love
The true teacher does not add to.
He takes away.
The teacher demonstrates emptiness and availability
to the entry and action of love.
The teacher empties the mind,
weakens ambition and creates confusion.
The teacher undoes people
and helps them to lose both their hopes and fears.
The teacher creates the space for love to enter.
So Enter!
