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Miracle of Love

Can the miracle of love transform a room full of strangers into intimate loving friends in only one weekend? Yes, it can. I know this after participating this past weekend in the Human Awareness Institute’s (HAI) workshop “Love is a miracle“.

Love is a miracle. Love can transform people’s hearts and minds and heal old wounds that years of clinical psychoanalysis can barely diagnose. But love requires us to be open to giving and receiving it. If we hide behind our walls because we fear rejection, shame or vulnerability love will not pass through.

I’ve come to realize that I’ve spent many years hiding behind the protective walls that I built. But recently my walls have begun to crack and fall down (see Born Again Burner for a glimpse of this heart opening). In venturing out beyond my crumbling walls I’ve discovered that love is abundant when we are open to making and receiving it. There is no shortage of love when we create and share it. It is a truly abundant and renewable resource when we let it flow.

During the HAI “Love is a Miracle” workshop many walls cracked and crumbled. Love, forgiveness, compassion and empathy flooded the room like water let free from a breaking dam. Its powerful currents washed away the residue of old hurt, dissolved blocks, and smoothed away our sharp edges.

Love is a miracle. It’s priceless and far more valuable than any material gift. What we all gave and received in the “Room of Love” that weekend was the ultimate present – to be present for each other. We were the ultimate gift.

In the “Room of Love” there were no clocks and no rushing past each other to complete the next task. The frantic treadmill of modern life was checked some where outside the door. We were fully present for each other. Listening intently and sharing compassionately. Wow, to really listen and be heard. What a moving gift the miracle of love truly is.

Forty strangers entered the room of love on Friday night and by Sunday night we were transformed into heart felt friends. It began with sharing our heart and soul with one other person, then with a small group and ultimately with the entire room.

Like ripples moving outward, the love and intimacy we shared became more expansive. Could such love and empathy ripple out and envelope the whole world?

When will the “Room of Love” become the world of love? When will we slow down, stop and take the time to look into each other’s eyes and see that we are one? When will we stop judging and start loving? When is the time to “Be Love”? Could it be right now?

Yes, Love is a miracle.

To read what others have to say about the HAI Love, Intimacy and Sexuality workshops, click here.

Human Awareness Institute (HAI) Workshops are held in the San Francisco Bay area, Michigan, Massachusetts, Toronto, the UK, Germany and Australia. To learn more visit www.hai.org

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4 Responses to “Miracle of Love”

Amanda Says:
November 26th, 2009 at 3:10 pm
Great post for Thanksgiving!
Amanda
Jen Says:
December 1st, 2009 at 9:50 pm
What a beautiful reminder. The miracles that happened in the room of love were truly breathtaking and they are available to us in each and every moment.

For me, experiencing the abundance of love and intimacy present at HAI increased my awareness that I am choosing moment to moment whether to “be love” in my life and in the world. To step beyond our walls and fears into greater heart opening, vulnerability and presence as love, I wonder if the greatest challenge we each might face is essentially one of self-trust and self-love…

May we all be inspired to create and recreate the experience of “being love” in our lives every day,
Jen
Julie Says:
December 6th, 2009 at 2:18 am
I love reading what you wrote, not only because I love you from sharing with you, but because I love what happens to me when I am at the HAI workshops. I feel that somehow these workshops break through the layers and layers of crusts that we allow to build up within our psyches. It assertively yet gently, peels away the judgements and decisions we make about ourselves, and it gets me down to the core of who I really am. From being at HAI, i now recognize what a loving, open woman I am.
Halcyon Says:
February 1st, 2010 at 5:10 pm
This sounds awesome!