Then one day it came to me the Understanding of the Law of Cause and Effect. It’s something I wasn’t taught about and as best as I have been able to determine, most of us aren’t taught about it, either. It makes too much sense. It’s too simple.

But not easy.

Be-ing “lovable” is a cause and be-ing “loved” is an effect.

If I desired to be Loved, it was simple, I just needed to be lovable. If I desired to be adored, I just need to be adorable.

Simple cause and effect.

Which I add, most of the authority figures in our religions, are proofs of living in denial of.

Much can be gleaned if we ask ourselves “what” the emotional nature of our “God” IS?

Does this “God” of ours express the nature of the Heart of a Dove?

No animal is trained through fear, ask any trainer.

Nor can the animal or the beast within us, our instinctual nature, be trained through fear, either.

It’s Beauty that loves the Beast.

I learned I need not fear abandonment, if I first did not abandon myself. I set my sights on becoming “lovable” by learning how to be loving towards myself. Because I can only give as good as I got.

I started carving in 1991. What came out scared me. It was obvious to me that there was a Beauty within me that the “me” on the outside was definitely NOT an accurate reflection of.

And I ~knew~ it.

I didn’t especially like the feeling of ~knowing~ it. So I set out to change it.

Simple but not easy.

So may I ease the way for others…

Enlightenment always causes disillusionment. We are glorified and crucified at the same time. It has been said Wisdom always comes with Sorrow but this hasn’t been explained.

“Sorrow” is the letting go of our attachments to glamor and illusion. Quite often it feels as if part of our self has died. Which essentially it has; the part of our self that counted on a reality that turned out not to be real is no more.

What we do not understand and this is critical to maintaining a perspective of love, is that Sorrow carves the depths of our Joy. There is nothing to fear, our cups will be filled.

But it is only in facing how unlovable we are,

That we become Loving.”

So true. Thanks for sharing!

PLL, C.