WHAT IS LOVE?

Question recently put to Jacqueline during Satsang:
”I try to love but often find it difficult and close down to my partner. What is love?”

Jacqueline:
Love has nothing to do with your partner. Love is a vibration – a vibration that puts you in touch with something very nourishing no matter what is happening to you and no matter who you are with. I remember years ago reading an esoteric astrology book. I came to a section on the 5th house of the zodiac – a house traditionally connected with love affairs or affairs of the heart. In this book it said that on an esoteric level the 5th house is connected with ”affairs of the heart chakra”. I really enjoyed reading this - and it is true. Ultimately we move from the level of affairs of the heart (which are usually of the solar plexus anyway!) to affairs of the heart chakra. This means meeting oneself and others and all of life from the vibration of unconditional love and acceptance that is the reality from the heart chakra level. When you begin to become centered in this reality you will always be in touch with love – even during times of pain, anger, aloneness, so-called disappointment and even rejection. Real love as a state doesn’t come and go – it is the very fabric of life. But we have to let go of old ideas of romantic love and and of mistaking conditional love, (”I love you if you love and please me”) for real love.

Allow your self to move deeper and deeper into the layers of the heart chakra. If you do this you will never again talk about trying to love or being afraid of closing down. The nature of the heart chakra is to be open – its energy naturally flows outwards. I often say that the love in the heart never goes away anywhere, it is always there open and waiting but often people simply forget to visit it. So just remember to stay in touch with the heart no matter what arises within you and no matter what life presents you with. This is the fastest way ”home”.