Mantra

It’s easy to get lost in life, lost in love, lost in others, lost in all the busyness around us and the emptiness inside. It’s easy to let your fears control your mind and for your mind to drown out your soul. Yet amongst all this there is an opportunity for us to pause, to get a glimpse of truth and to feel the peace around us. Sometimes it’s hard to do, but it’s certainly always worthwhile doing so. 

Yesterday I had such a moment, where I paused. I looked up from my phone, looked beyond the thoughts and fears in my mind and for a moment felt an overwhelming calling towards love. The love that is present within us all, yet we hide away from others out of fear of judgement and or fear of alienation. It seems that in this day and age expressing love to complete strangers through small effortless gestures is no longer normal nor neccessary; or at least we think it’s not neccessary. But yesterday I realised that this shift in human consciousness towards inward pain instead of outward joy is making us all so lonely and unhappy. Yet because we don’t pause, we fail to see that the solution to all our fears, pain and worries lies within the light and love that each one of us has hidden within us, but which we fail to share with each other. 

I reflected on why this is so, why I myself dim the light within and ignore the love that I have to give and it suddenly hit me that I was afraid of love because true, pure and holy love is at times overwhelming to bear. So instead of gaining the courage to explore this beautiful gift of love that we are all inherintly made of, we avoid it, we lock it away inside so that we don’t feel uncomfortable and or vulnerable. It dawned on me that I didn’t have the courage to be love; yes you read that right. I don’t have the courage to BE Love. What I mean by this is that I don’t have the courage to allow my soul and spirit to lead the way because my own past experiences and society have taught me that I should protect myself from pain, from hurt, from judgment and that I should conform into what is socially acceptable. But what is socially acceptable these days leaves us alone in our inward thoughts and insecurities and frankly, I don’t want to protect myself from other peoples judgement anymore. I would rather have the courage to be love, to be real and to be me than to worry if people are going to label me as odd, hippie, wierd or whatever else they wish to do so. Their lack of awareness or understanding of their own truth is preventing me from exploring mine further and so it’s time that I start working towards building my courage step by step, moment by moment until one day I wouldn’t need courage to be love, I would just Be Love. 

For whatever each of you are going through in your lives, know that you too can find your courage, find your light, find your essence of love that has been placed deep inside your heart. Once you find it, once you stop being afraid of yourself and your inner strength; you too will one day just be love. 

I want to leave you with one last message by sharing a poem I wrote, hoping that this can become your mantra also, for when you have doubt, for when you feel scared or for when you think you’re all alone; I know for me, this will be a reminder of the journey that I hope to take.

Mantra:

Have the courage to be love, 

When you look inside you’ll be stunned,

Have the patience to be still, 

You have such strong will,

Have the strength to fight your fears,

Stop hiding away your tears,

Have the wisdom to be right here,

When you’re present love is near,

Have the innocence to stay pure,

Peace and kindness is your cure

Have the passion to always grow,

Behind the corner there’s so much more

Have the drive to be self-less, 

Love others don’t be careless,

Have the kindness to keep on giving,

That’s the purpose of living

Have the grace to be wrong,

In this space you’ll grow strong

Have the faith to keep on going,

God has your back the light is always glowing..

Dream on my dreamers,

Love Always,

Miss Dreamer