Love defines value: We are unable to love unless we value ourselves and we only truly value that which we love and this is why we must choose carefully what we are going to love. One such primary choice is between the living world and constructs of value. For example, do we choose the land and its living inhabitants or do we choose “property”? Do we choose a person for who they are or what they can “do” for us? But the most important choice is, do we choose our self or our “image”?
In each case, we know the truth of what should be valued, just as we know the body that carries us through life is a wondrous living entity almost unto itself, though the dominant construct says it is a machine of assembled parts. Can one look at a baby and honestly see a machine? When we see images from space of our world and other ones, our heart knows we are seeing a living system, not a machine. When we see these things, we see life and we know it is very valuable.
Loving is not possible without some level of love for oneself. To love is to recognize the intrinsic value of something and loving oneself is to see that within oneself. This is always learned from being loved – whether we come into contact with the love from the Universe itself, or we are loved by another: When we know we are valued by another for what and who we are simply for being just that, we lose any false limits on what we are capable of giving.
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Love and Value
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In each case, we know the truth of what should be valued, just as we know the body that carries us through life is a wondrous living entity almost unto itself, though the dominant construct says it is a machine of assembled parts. Can one look at a baby and honestly see a machine? When we see images from space of our world and other ones, our heart knows we are seeing a living system, not a machine. When we see these things, we see life and we know it is very valuable.
Loving is not possible without some level of love for oneself. To love is to recognize the intrinsic value of something and loving oneself is to see that within oneself. This is always learned from being loved – whether we come into contact with the love from the Universe itself, or we are loved by another: When we know we are valued by another for what and who we are simply for being just that, we lose any false limits on what we are capable of giving.