ALUNA TEMPLE MAGAZINE EDITION No5 'ALCHEMY' | Page 55

Opening to the Beloved is ultimately an arrival into our most natural
state of Being, into the experience of Wholeness we find when we
rest into our core.

Aligning with
our inherent Design,
we allow the Nature of Life
to bloom us open
from the inside out as the
petals of Essence unfurls
its magnificence,
offering this Love
as an effortless expression
of who we really are.
Fractals of the Whole, enfolding and unfurling as Love
© Aires photography

To gain access to this state of Being, it takes dropping beneath the dense
layers of cultural conditioning, which have falsely imprinted an idea of
Love as a commodity that’s intimately associated with our value.
As such, Love is regarded as something to be pursued, earned, traded, used
for leverage, and held onto at all costs—while the fear of loosing it looms
forebodingly overhead. We’ve been led to believe the falsehood that Love is
something that comes from outside of us, which is 180 degrees away from the
truth.
When we are able to rest down and through these distorted interpretations of
Love into the naturalness of our Being, confusion is resolved in the direct
experience of who we really are…which IS Love—Eternally emerging, infinitely
enfolding, pulsating at the heart of every particle which has organized into this
form that we inhabit.

We are Essence in a body, the Beloved in form; when we open to the
Beloved, we are opening into our truest nature, allowing it to Be and Flow
freely.
As we come into deeper contact with the Presence that resides inside this skin,
drawing inward to receive the fullness of our Self, the Beauty of Essence begins
to enfold us back into the heart of what matters.

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