Reflections: Light, Law, Love

Light, law and love are the three currents of power that comprise the life force. But that sentence hardly captures the mystical nature and power of light, law and love or why this power should matter so much to you. I deeply believe that these three cosmic forces of creation are how the Divine organically flows through our ordinary life, through our blood and bones, through energizing our thoughts and emotions. As I pursued the nature of mystical consciousness, healing, and the power of the soul, I began to embrace a wondrously new understanding of the nature of the Divine, one that transcended all religious teachings about the existence of an off-planet God. Instead, I understood that the Divine was the ever-present organic system of life itself, the consciousness of all life interconnected into one cosmic network of all creation. This, for me, was the emergence of organic divinity – a way of comprehending the Divine as the source of all creation present in every molecule and atom of light and whose nature was revealed through the consistency of the laws of nature itself. The Divine was exactly like the laws of nature: consistent, universal, and impersonal.

The Divine was also mystifyingly intimate. And that intimacy is what we experience through the power of our choices, including the choice to pray. Unlike the other creatures we share this Earth with, we have the capacity to make choices that influence and indeed co-create the events of our personal lives, as well as the events we share with all humanity. Choice is our greatest power – and each of us is born knowing that truth. While I have often heard people say that love is the greatest power in life, the truth is we must first make the decision to choose love. Love is the most mysterious, baffling, magnetic, healing and empowering expression of the life force we can experience. Given how potent love is, we should all find loving others to be the easiest thing to do – and yet, loving others, making decisions motivated by love, empowering others, loving bigger than ourselves, and forgiving those who have hurt us – those are the most difficult challenges of life.

At the end of the day, every choice we make can be reduced to whether we are motived by the love of power or the power of love. Those choices determine how the “light” within us flows into acts of creation and magnetizes the mystical laws of creation. Light, Law and Love are the three currents of the Divine that run through our soul, animating every choice we make, from the smallest thoughts we have to the decisions that others witness. As I have learned from my own spiritual life – and with awesome appreciation – as impersonal as this universe is in terms of law and order, choice and consequence, it is also deeply intimate in that every choice is known and accounted for. The Divine is indeed all life itself. And all life breathes together.

And so, in this workshop, I will introduce you to the power of your Light, to the workings of mystical Law, and to a cosmic view of love, beyond personal and romantic love.

This is an era of self-empowerment, as all of you know. But I believe the reason we are compelled to understand the deeper nature of our personal power and to develop our inner self is because at some level, we realize that our power and life force are one and the same thing.

This is a time in which every person is aware of the need to develop self-esteem and to pursue a relationship with our inner self. Why? And why have we become so aware of our personal power and the devastating consequences of knowing you have said or done something that has “disempowered” you? Because you do indeed participate in the creation of your reality – and you understand at a deep level that it is your inner power that truly animates the entire ecology of your life – from your health to all you create. It is vital to understand how that mystical truth unfolds in your consciousness and in your life. The power of choice is so potent, so creative that it must not be reduced to thinking or saying, “I want this.” The universe has levels of consciousness and it is we who must come to realize the cause and impact of what motivates our choices until we finally understand that the power of love is the one great choice that truly serves the whole of creation.