The Confines of Love

An open heart doesn’t guarantee things going on around you will change, but what will change is the view from looking at life through “I” to looking at life from within the confines of love…

I’m sure everyone has heard the expression “the circle of life” but here’s a little different spin on it as “the confines of love”. Think of it as though life is a circle, when you love you’re inside its confines. When you’re not it means you’re living mostly from “I” which automatically puts you beyond loves confines. Outside the confines was how the first forty nine years of my life were lived. Occasionally I was within the confines, but not very often; this was because my “I” conditioning kept my heart closed. It’s nearly impossible to enter the confines of love from “I” because “I” is what keeps the heart closed. When you see this, it gives you something tangible to work with which is the key to opening the heart; with an open heart you’ll be in the confines of love.

Life and love can be synonymous, but only when you’re within the confines of love, and you can only be there when the heart is open. The things of the world that keep you outside the confines of love are many. It’s as though you’re on the outside of a house looking in through a window. Love opens the heart to see things that were previously unseen, and this is what opens you to see as if you’re inside the house looking out. When you’re on the inside looking out it’s because the heart is open. With the heart open it may not change what’s going on around you, but it does change the view from looking at life through “I” to looking at life from within the confines of love…