Making Love With Life

Making Love With Life]

"How can we make love?
It is making us ---
Every second,
Every minute,
Every hour."    
   ____ Carole Bruce, "The Beloved Sequence"


   Life embraces living in a playful creative process in which we are not the controlling agency, but rather a beloved partner. Once we glimpse the action of love in our lives, we can never again live with disrespect, complaint, or displeasure. The yeast of love bubbles up through our hardening crust, leaving little holes filled with life-giving air, escape route to the heart of ecstasy.

   The British mystic and poet Thomas Traherne wrote, "Place yourself in the midst of the world as if you were alone, and meditate upon all the services which it doth unto you." This is a good place from which to experience the world as lover. It helps us turn round our self-centered view of life and shows us receptive areas wherein we engage most deeply with life. If we make a practice of coming from this place - from the sense of world as lover - our core instincts will be kindled and we will know how to respond to our lover without rehearsal or preparation.

   Making love with life is a revolutionary way of living, because it involves our loving reciprocation rather our defensive, self-shielding mechanisms. We must abandon those mechanisms, letting go of our personal control and defensiveness when we are with the lover so that love's creative and liberating influence can be free to work. Although this is a playful way of living, it is also seriously intent, insightful and intuitive.

"How does life make love with you? How do you make love with life?"
[From: "The Celtic Spirit" by Caitlin Matthews]