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That’s where love is

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That’s where love is

“Where there is great love there are always miracles.”
—Willa Cather

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ove lives at Center and Center is unscripted and spontaneous. It is alive, fresh, and appropriate to the moment.

Love is not about feeling comfortable or habitually choosing what feels familiar.

The miracles that follow love come when the line of risk is crossed, and something new is created from what wasn’t there before.

Love is seeing through the old structures. It is about acknowledging the ones that don’t support your evolution or growth and ending them. Ending them looks like facing and changing them — not avoiding or denying them.

There is no great love in allowing yourself (or others) to do what is not in your (or their) best interest. When you threaten to change, the voices in your head (and others’ heads) will not like it. They will resist.

Growing up and taking responsibility for your experience will never be popular. The voices will cheer you on to accept their excuses and create walls of fire to keep you from freedom. Please expect that. It comes with the territory.

There’s nothing about love that says it should be easy. But, it actually is. When you shift your attention from the voices to Life, there are always miracles.

Look there! The miracle began there at the shift.

That’s where love is.
 

In lovingkindness,


If you enjoyed this article, you can find a version of it in my book, Living the Zen Life: Practicing Conscious, Compassionate Awareness (Volume One).

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If you enjoyed this article, you can find a version of it in my book, A Shift to Love: Zen Stories and Lessons by Alex Mill.

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  Alex Mill trained in a Zen Buddhist monastery for nearly 14 years. He now offers his extensive experience to transform people’s lives and businesses through timeless Zen principles.

He is the creator of three powerful 30-day programs, Heart-to-Heart: Compassionate Self-Mentoring, Help Yourself to Change, and Your Practice, as well as the online Zen meditation workshop, Taming Your Inner Noise (now offered as The Zen Workshop).

Alex has also written seven books on Zen awareness practice. The latest are entitled A Shift to Love: Zen Stories and Lessons (Get some FREE sample chapters here) and the 3-book series Living the Zen Life: Practicing Conscious, Compassionate Awareness.

He is a full-time Zen Life Coach who offers guidance and life-changing support to his private clients worldwide. Book a call.


 

2 thoughts on “That’s where love is”

  1. Alex, I loved this passage today!! I finally get The Shift to Love. You have to love it all. The good with our perceived bad. It is the love that you give to the challenges that make the shift. Finally get this on a deep level . Love it all.!!! Never quite got it before. This was my gift today . It is huge. At the moment this fell into me I had such a surge of emotion I knew I had finally hit upon something super special. I have you to thank for it. !!!! You said yesterday in the webinar to me to love it and I thought ok love it I don’t know how this was supposed to help. But I do now. It changes everything!

    1. It IS very huge!

      It’s one thing for you to “try and understand,” but it’s another to have a shift where you actually GET IT!

      What a testament to all the work you’re doing in the group, in your readings, and in the retreat.

      Thank you for sharing your experience, Marion!

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