Love the One You're With

Ah, the sweet recognition that what you seek has been yours all along.  Love the one you’re with. Another name for self-love. Truly love the one you’re with, not in some solipsistic or surface animation- but truly, madly, deeply, love the one you’re with. This is the love the ecstatic poets speak of. This is the message of yoga.  Devotion in the highest most powerful sense. This is the gift of deep meditation.  

To share love, we must first know love. Love is light, the source of everything that naturally calls to us, because it is who we truly are.  As much as we may try, we cannot convince ourselves of this from the surface of life.  First, says yoga, go in, know your heart, steep in the love found there. Let it pervade the body/mind, flowing into all the nooks and crannies, gross and subtle.  Then, naturally bring the light of love out in all you do. The more we root in that love, the more we stabilize our home in the heart, the more naturally, what will spill out, is love. To be self-less one must first be Self-full.  Love the one you're with.