Choose Love

Dear Reader,

What do you think of the idea that human beings are made of love? That love is an aspect of our true nature? It may sound like a stretch, but most if not all of the world’s wisdom traditions support this view.

On this Valentine’s Day weekend, I want to offer a universal perspective on love, that you can relate to whether you are in a relationship or not. In a way, you can consider the following content a guest post, because it comes directly from my guides.

My guides??

Yes. Nantene and Malachor are two wise, loving and humorous guides who come through for me in channeled sessions. They are quite a team! Together, they provide some of my best intuitive guidance.

The idea of guides may excite you, or you may be skeptical – either way, I understand. And either way, you might like to read some of my past writing on the blog about guides and how they work, at least for me.

Love is a universal force, perhaps the most powerful force we know, but the least easy to define. So I invite you to read on with an open mind and heart. See how you resonate with the ideas, what feelings you have in response and what questions come up for you.

Nantene on love

Greetings!  I am Nantene and I am here.

We are, as you are, pure love, and love recognizes love.

Love wants to be with love. 

And since love is who and what you are, you wish to be loving, and you wish to experience more love.

So do all your fellow human beings, no matter what surface behavior you see, no matter what words you hear, no matter what thoughts others may be thinking.  All human beings wish to experience and express more love.  It is simply part of who you are; part of what you are here to do.

When you experience and express love, it is the most powerful force you know, and it is immediately recognizable.  Others know it and feel it instantly, and they respond to it.

It is only when this awareness, this energy, this pure love, becomes hidden by illusions of separation, and ultimately of lack – or the threat of lack – that human beings begin to move away from experiencing and expressing more love.

Nantene on fear

It is only when these illusions are present and become dominant, that fear arises. Fear perpetuates the illusion of separation.  Fear perpetuates the illusion of lack of love; that love might not exist in this situation, or at all.

Behind love, fear is perhaps the second most powerful feeling, which you might think is unfortunate. 

I certainly wouldn’t blame you.

However, considering that fear is only an illusion that love is not present, the power of fear is not surprising at all.

If it weren’t as powerful, that might mean that love was also not as powerful, and we know that not to be true.

So what do you give permission to in your life? Do you give permission to love or to fear, to come through and call the shots?

Love seems the obvious choice.

Yet so often human beings choose fear without even realizing it.

Fear can be pervasive, and subtle, and crafty – and now we are talking about the human mental construction, where one’s conscious sense of self is involved, which some refer to as the ego.

The conscious sense of self tends to preserve, as best as possible, the conscious sense of self.  That often means working in partnership with fear instead of with love, because the self (ego) does often feel separate, or threatened, or unsafe, or ambivalent, or confused, or frustrated, or angry.

Choosing love over fear

So it does take – especially at first – great courage to choose love, and faith, and persistence.  But when the choice for love is made, amazing things do happen, time and time again.

It is important to look in your life for those results achieved when choosing love. Remember them, and use them as motivation to make the same choices for love – again, and again, and again.

We suggest that if more humans choose love on a regular basis, even more humans will choose love on a regular basis.

And most of you can barely conceive of what that would look like!

Yet, we tell you it would look beautiful beyond imagining.

Many, if not all, of your problems – apparent problems – would disappear, because you would solve them all, together.

You would lift each other up as never before.

Fear would continue to exist; it is an important part of the process of being human and loving. But it would be managed very differently, and put in its proper perspective.

So we suggest that you find the courage to choose love, over and over again. 

Allow others to see your choice and to serve as an example to help them make the same choice. 

That is a movement.

I will turn the time over to Malachor, for he wishes to speak as well.  I am Nantene and I bid you a fond farewell.

Malachor follows up

Greetings!  I am Malachor.  I am here and I wish to speak.

All your life, and for all of your human lives, you have endeavored to do one thing: to explore and express as fully as possible how your unique human-ness brings you back to Source; how being human is the grandest form of expression of Spirit you could possibly choose.

That is the name of the game.

As a concept, it is perhaps easy enough to intellectually appreciate, but as a practice, it is a lifetime’s work –  and a lifetime, and a lifetime, and a lifetime.

This practice is ongoing, for it is Spirit, unfolding.  It is Source, expressing.  It is truth, revealing.  It is genius, creating.  It is love, encompassing.  It is compassion, embracing.  Over and over and over and over again.

Therefore, in any of your given human lives, it is most important to embrace fully all that comes with being human, make the best choices you can, and – as Nantene said earlier – choose love again, and again, and again.

This means that when fear arises, you see it, you accept it, you feel it, and you choose love anyway.

That is the boldest, most courageous act any human being could make.  Ever.

 This is a perfect place to conclude our session for today, knowing that you are nothing less than divine love in full, spontaneous expression at any given moment.  That you can always choose it.  That you can always claim it.  That you can always peel back the layers of illusion and despite any fear, choose love anyway.  

I am Malachor and I bid you a fond farewell.

A final note from John

In full transparency, I have taken the essential teaching from a session dialogue with my wife Louise. I have given it a light edit for clarity and flow, but otherwise left it intact. If you would like to see a sample of the dialogue in its original format, you can check out the post that Louise created for their website.

I hope you enjoy this “guest post” from Nantene and Malachor! What kind of response does it bring up for you? Leave a comment and let us know!

I honor your loving heart,

John