Dear Friends,
Exactly 100 years ago AA Milne wrote his famous children’s book.
In it Piglet asks Winnie : “How do you spell L-O-V-E?”
And Pooh replies: “You don’t spell it – you feel it!”
Ah!! There’s the problem, eh?!
Most of us know how to spell it – our problems often arise because we spend our time trying to access it, integrate it into a wishful relationship, improve it, spruce it up, give it more teeth, modify it, change it and generally treat it as a behavioural technique we’re told is capable of improving our happiness (at least in the short-term)…..
Like Piglet we miss the deeper truth of it.
As Pooh said: we simply feel it!
Are we all able to feel it?
Yes.
How can I be so sure?
Because love is what we are.
When we feel love we are feeling our true, real self!!
Indeed, at the end of the day, it’s all we are!!
Love.
So why don’t we simply bask in the sunlight of our own existence?
Lots of reasons!
Ignorance. Stubbornness. Ego. Stupidity. Greed. External advertising.
Childhood conditioning that we are useless, bad, worthless….
The list is exceptionally extensive.
Why don’t we at least easily see the god-light in others?
Because we expect them to be no better (and often worse) than us!
And even when we love them we often deny them our love!
(That’s because if we don’t accept our own love we have nothing to givemanyone else!!).
Well, Pooh said: “Love is taking a few steps backward – maybe even more – to give way to the happiness of the person you love.”
At the end of the day, all we limit and minimise is our own specialness and god-light!
So now go look deeply into your mirror!
See your own lovingness desperate to express itself to you!
Let it do so.
Then turn to the next person and repeat the same exercise….off you go!
Love and Blessings,
Peace Be Within You!
Les
The community Of The Heart holds our 2nd Service in Coffs Harbour Sunday 18th January 2026 at 8.30am (Toormina Community Centre)
Please share with your friends!!
Community Of The Heart – Australia