"This Week"
by the
Bahrain Meditation Centre

11th February, 2006

St Valentine’s Day…. Freedom to love

St. Valentine’s Day is, without a doubt, a day many retail businesses look forward to as they bank on finding and promoting new ways for us to express our “true” love through products and services. Yet in the face of this well recognized day for “true love” many of us may think it no longer exists as our everyday reality seems void of its light. Ironically, as this day is so successful commercially it indicates that our hope to experience or even witness an expression of true love remains ignited within – a sign that this quality is innate to us all, deeper than our rational mind.

In our search for “true” love we have learned there are different facets to love, many comparable to our own growing process: our early years of the awakening of and drive to satisfy our senses or being totally enraptured by someone, our mid-years of webs of relationships, and of learning to balance responsibility, commitment and passion and our later years where love is about companionship, friendship and honesty. Even as a society our definition of love has moved from its romantic era into facing our present-day harsh reality. Global communication captures and informs us of such atrocities and acts of violence, leading us to ask if anyone loves any more.

Now that our search for love has matured, we engage our hearts and head, for our journey is one to inner truth. Many embrace spirituality to aid this inner journey and to uncover their inner diamond of love as they remember the messages and lives of their prophet souls: expressions of love. Spirituality is founded on love. It gives the seeker an opportunity to learn and experience love of compassion, of humility, of hope and of self. It calls for us to start facing and understanding ourselves, for it recognizes that we are the creators of reality and many drops of pure love from each of us will stem the tide of such negativity as lust, greed, anger and jealousy. Spirituality gives us each an opportunity to share love and, as important, challenges us to accept love.

We all know love is not a commodity to be bought but let us not forget that the real secret to St. Valentine’s Day success is our innate quality and call for “true” love. So on 14th February celebrate the day by honoring that inner call and let that feeling of love open your soul and touch all those around you. Let the experience of well-being build into a wave so powerful that many are affected by this very positive and transformative force, awakening hope and courage to forge a reality where we will one day live in peace - an expression of pure love.

Om Shanti
(I am a peaceful soul)

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Bahrain Meditation Centre is administered by B.K.W.S.U. (visit: www.bkwsu.org.uk)