Law of Attraction Magazine Holiday Issue (Nov./Dec., 2018 | Page 50

W hat IS Love?
By Joshua
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C hanneled by G ary Temple Bodley
You do not really understand the concept of love
from where you now stand. Very few have
experienced true love. You have felt good in the
presence of your newborn child and you might say
this is the highest expression of love. Yet when we
talk of love, it is the absence of fear that is the
major component. So when you look at your child
or mate and you feel love, you also feel fear. You
fear for the loss of what you love.
This is perfectly natural and is really unavoidable
given the way you live within your society. But if
you could imagine love without fear, the feeling
you experienced looking into your newborn baby?s
eyes would be quite different. It would be
elevated. Becoming who you really are means
living in love without the aspect of fear. Reducing
fear enhances love. Eliminating fear allows only
love.
The elimination of fear is strictly a concept used for
the purposes of defining love. It is not possible to
eliminate fear fully just as it is not possible to
eliminate anything fully. If a fearful thought exists
anywhere, then fear exists at some level. However,
as you reduce fear you automatically allow more
love. As we teach you ways to reduce the intensity
and frequency of fearful thoughts, we help you
experience more love. It is the allowing of love that
allows you to discover who you really are.
Isn?t it ironic that you all understand that love is
something to be brought into your everyday
experience of life, yet you are more fearful of it
than anything else? You have been taught to fear
love. You have learned to withhold love. You are
very careful not to display too much love. In your
society it is not acceptable to fully express your
love. You are a guarded people. You are taught to
put up defenses and struggle to protect yourselves
at all costs.
Since love is the basis of who you really are, you
are designed to love freely and fully. It is right and
good to express love. The only reason you would
not express your love is fear. It?s fear of rejection,
fear of embarrassment, fear of loss and many other
equally irrational fears. You cannot lose when you
truly love. You cannot be other than who you really
are when you are showing love. When you act out
of love, you are performing as the highest version
of yourself.
You have a learned behavior of resisting love. You
are cautious when entering relationships. You are
cautious when meeting new people. You like your
small groups. You have learned to worry about
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