Love is the name we give to the energy of pure potential that was released when the universe as we know it was created. At the moment of the Big Bang, massive amounts of energy were released into the universe. This energy is the foundation of everything that we can see, smell, touch, taste and hear. It has formed galaxies and stars, planets and moons, whales and snow fleas. It has formed into people too, and helps shape our thoughts, create inspiration, and expands our souls.
Love is the energy of pure potential. This energy, when coupled with the information dormant in all of the tiny bits of matter that swirl through space, condenses to create kitchen tables and John Deer tractors, Himalayan mountain ranges and new born babies. It is possibility. When seen through our human eyes, perfectly adapted for the several hundred thousand years we spent chasing after woolly mammoths across the tundra, but ill suited for seeing the subtle complexities of a quantum universe, this energy seems static. That’s a table and its static, and it’s a good thing it is, because my laptop computer is sitting on it. That’s my neighbours car, and I’m glad that both it, and the car I’m driving have clearly defined bumpers, or I’d likely back into it.
But the energy of the universe I think of as love is really nothing more than probability. According to some quantum physicists, if I was to turn away from my computer right now, it would merely possess the potential to be a computer. While I’m not looking, the particles of matter – made up, at the most fundamental level, of nothing more than energy and information – that are my computer become waves of potential. When I look back, expecting to see my computer, there it is! It snaps back to particle form. Our eyes and our brains are not accustomed, maybe not yet ready, to see the world as waves of potential. They may never be ready. We need the hard edged reality of particles of matter. It would be pretty hard to function day-to-day if everything was simply seen as slightly fuzzy, mostly empty waves of possibility.
All of this talk about energy, information and possibility has a point. Love makes all things possible.
We’ve all heard that before. I hope that every one of us has, at some time, spoken those words, or had them spoke to us by someone we love.
In Pavlo Coelho’s book The Alchemist the Sheppard who is at the heart of the story falls in love with a young woman named Fatima. In doing so he realized “that he had loved her before he even knew she existed. He knew that his love for her would enable him to discover every treasure in the world.”
When we are in love, we are open conduits for the energy of the universe. We are funnels, channelling that energy into everything that we do. The process of manifestation, where we are able to create whatever it is we want in life from the pure potential of the universe – and it’s all just potential, probability, possibility – becomes so much easier when we experience the harmony of love.
In love, we are responding to how the universe intended us to exist. We are made up of pure love, of pure energy, of pure potential, that has existed since the beginning of time. We are told, in 1 John (twice) that “God is Love.” Much earlier, in Genesis 1:27 we are told that “God created man in his own image.” So, if you’re into that sort of thing, you might agree that God made us of pure love. In the Tao te Ching, Loa Tzu says that love is one of the three pillars of the Tao (Tao, 67). Christ and the Buddha both taught love.
As I experience love, and the harmony it creates, I feel the incontrovertible truth that in this most natural state of existence, I can do anything. I often tell my partner, Jenn, that with her love I am able to accomplish anything. With my children’s love, it is possible to create miracles in my quest to create harmony and peace in our lives.
I am in love, and it is beautiful. When I allow myself to feel that love to its fullest potential, it feels as if every cell in my body is open to the universe, and the pure, unfiltered energy of the cosmos is streaming through me. Like a river, like a current. Channelling this flow to express the love I feel for my children, my partner, my friends and family, and for the magical world around me, is my highest calling in life.
