That's a good description of it. I would add that there is an immense feeling of equanimity where no being is more precious than any other - they ALL are precious. I'd guess it is an aspect of Power that is present in the universe; that is within the reach, but a constant staying there requires very deep changes in self.
Ah...yes *warm smiles*...or the constant staying there simply changes self.
This last year I spent trying to just DO whatever it was that kept me in that (what made my heart sing)...and as a result underwent many changes, none expected. For instance, my whole goal in life morphed in ways I never would have thought I cared about...but realized I cared a great deal about. Like starting a path and at each turn more is revealed...it has been quite an exciting ride.
My experience agrees with you...there is a certain sense of indescribable "at-rightness" with being in that state...as though it is familiar, or something that I recognize from who knows where...like that is the way I used to be before I was human (not to sound too out-there).
I desire that "at-rightness" and as it is a feeling or sense like no others...I made that feeling my guide and teacher and follow it where it goes. In doing that, though, and my absolute devotion to it, sort of took me outside the usual routine "path-following" those around me were doing...and that I used to do. I wish it was clear cut, but it is not...a part of it had to do with my relinquishing any hope for a teacher or guide that had been anywhere I wanted to go before...it was an acceptance on a different (non-word) level that...well...these feelings or senses were my guide...and a real relinquishment to accept following them blindly.
My path in this life circles around "love"...and I do not believe even one fraction of my life does not involve this matter of "love"...so my "at-rightness" has a lot to do with achieving the higher frequencies of awareness where there is more and more love flowing out and less and less anything else.
I don't care for the cynacism...I am deeply sorry for those who's life experience only knows the lower levels of imitation love and thus their cynacism is a natural outgrowth...but their closedness precludes it...I see only their hunger...and then, after, their words (spoken or written) inform me that they are in denial pretending they are not hungry...but still I see only their hunger and emptiness. I can do nothing in those realms...their closedness precludes any experience outside their lack.
I think you are right Red, 99.99999...% of people would find it very hard to genuinely love someone torturing them...and harder still to forgive them. I don't know how others experience it, but I have a visceral reaction and sort of shudder when people say that they don't or wouldn't want to forgive or come to love...and I wonder do they know what they are saying...and IF they knew would they still say? And I know they would still say...but not because they understand...because they don't. The prospect of it not occuring as a choice carries with it implications that are hard to bear...but that we have no choice but to bear. Then again, no one said expanded awareness is easy or leads to peace...but the joy born of "at-rightness" with one's self is a reward eases the matter.
You know...there is something in that...genuinely loving the person torturing your physical form. It runs counter to those who turn on the evening news and get upset. If we were to effect a scale of beginner path to highly advanced path I would think that having one's life, designing our life, to include being tortured so that one could have the opportunity to love one's torturer constitutes a more highly advanced life path. That is just the way it seems to me. No, it is not easy to love one's torturer...especially in the midst of being tortured...but that is exactly why one should do it. To me, that is what stood out in the death of Jesus story...but I have yet to hear or see anyone emphasize that aspect...could one BE tortured and NOT lose themselves in their physical form, but instead rise above form and expand awareness and flow love out in perfect understanding of why it was this way? Could you? I wonder if I could...
Love is a vital essence...life without time in the frequency of awareness known as love (not emotion) does not seem nearly as full of life or verve or just "aliveness." While I may not have words to describe what I see in that...life lived in the higher frequencies just seems to call one powerfully into being, do you know what I mean?
