What is there to say about love that hasn’t been said? It makes the world go round, it’s a many splendored thing, it’s the force that holds the universe together.

There’s love for yourself. There’s love for another person. There’s universal love and love for humanity.

There’s love for the new flavor of ice cream and there’s love that sets ships sailing across the sea. Einstein once said, “You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.”

One could say that there are as many different ways to define love as there are living souls on our planet earth. Every life is driven by a force, and love is the purest fuel.

Today being Valentine’s Day here in the west, we’re awash in floral and confectionery delights, and the image of cupid’s arrow follows us wherever we go.

But beyond the ubiquity of the heart emoji, one could also think of love as a vibration, a frequency, or a level of consciousness.

David Hawkins, if you remember, is the fellow who came up with his nifty scale of consciousness that creates a hierarchy of levels in human awareness.

Energies that are detrimental to our well-being that make us contract such as guilt, anger, and pride are well below love on the scale. Exalted realms such as joy, bliss, and enlightenment that help us expand are above. To live life at love or above is a worthy aim.

Love is like quicksilver, if you try to squeeze it too hard it slips away. And yet once you’re relaxed and at peace with yourself you might find it walking through the door. (Or peeking across the dance floor as the case may be!)

With so much strife between different kinds of people in today’s world, I’d love to see more emphasis on love for the human race in general. We are all simply flowers of humanity, living expressions of our life force.

No matter what this day means to you, know that you don’t have to understand love, you just have to trust that it’s there.

May your heart be full and your head held high, much love till next Monday!

M+

Mark Metz
Director of the Dance First Association
Publisher of Conscious Dancer Magazine