The discerning mind interrupts the flow of love in your heart. The mind wants to appoint love. It wants to be a paintbrush that paints love where it deigns.
The mind thinks that love is an investment. The mind thinks that love is something to bet on or give up on. The mind, even unaware that love is a flowing river, nevertheless, dams it up. It obstructs love. Love is meant to go wherever it goes, and it is supposed to go everywhere. The mind is ignorant of this truth. The erring mind does not believe in the heart.
Your eyes are meant to alight on everyone and everything with love. It is not that you give away love. You merely give it. You let it be. You let it beam out.
It is not that you bid love to come, for love is unbidden. Your heart is already full of it. If the mind did not harbor all the thoughts it does, the flow of love from your heart would be unrestricted. There would not be bursts of love when your heart was allowed to be free and flow without obstruction. There would never be awayness from love. Awayness from love would be known as the impossibility it is.
The mind measures off the love in your heart with a ruler. This much, this far, no further. The mind plugs the heart. It cuts it off. The mind is like scissors.
Left to its own devices, your heart would just love. It would be in its simple state of love. It would not have to gush. It would simply flow and flow according to its natural inclination.
A light bulb does not choose who or what will receive its light. Light welcomes all. And so is it with love. Love is not effort, for if it is effort, it is not love. The effort has been on not loving. Not loving takes effort. That is why you are uncomfortable when you repress the natural flow of love in your beleaguered heart.
You have chastened your heart. You have pre-packaged your love and allocated it. Like a fast food restaurant, you have put a price on it and you serve it only after it has been paid for.
When love flows, it is fresh. Love does not start and stop. It flows. Your heart was never intended to be closed. Close your heart, and you become bitter. Your heart becomes stale. Admit you have kept your heart hostage for too long. You have stifled your heart for reasons that do not hold up.
But your heart of love will bounce back quickly. It has its rightful place reserved in the universe. Your heart will step forward and lead the way. Your heart will light like a lantern, and your light will diffuse everywhere. Your love will be like the dawning sun. It will arise over the curve of your mind. It will ascend and sparkle life as it was meant to.
Why do I emphasize the culture of love more than anything else? Why do I harp on it? Beloveds, what else is there to emphasize? What else needs to be brought out? Certainly, there is no need for Me to give you instruction on how to cramp your heart. You need instruction on how to desist from cramping your heart.
So I say, Open your heart. I say, Open wide. I say, Open your heart for all the world to see. Open it as the Heavens open. Open it as a beautiful flower opens. Bare your heart to the sun.
Your heart is an infant, and yet your heart is ancient. Your heart is tried and true. Your heart is valiant. Let your heart beam its love out into the world. Let your heart have the happiness it was made for.