When Love Tries to Find Words

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When Love Tries to Find Words

Have you ever noticed that two words can mean almost the same thing, yet somehow feel completely different?
 
Take like and adore.
Care and cherish.
Special and precious.
 
They point in the same general direction, but they don’t carry the same feeling. There is something inside certain words—an emotional texture, a subtle vibration—that elevates them beyond their dictionary definition.
 
I have always been fascinated by that. But until recently, I couldn’t define that ineffable quality or vibe. Then, while reading Dr. Sue Morter’s The Anatomy of Awakening, I finally realized the quality I was looking for was hiding in plain sight.
 
Love.
 
Morter has an exercise designed to help us embody twelve states of elevated emotion. As I have been working with them, I can deeply feel love as the elemental current running through them all.
 
Love as a state of being.
Love as a vibration.
Love as the fundamental element of who we are.
 
And I like to think that, just as the physical body continually takes in and releases breath, the soul takes in and releases love.
Because love isn’t something we have to manufacture—as Morter reinforces, it’s what we are made of.
 
And that is something we can remember.
 
Perhaps the difference between many of these words is in the quality of energy we bring to them. And the more deeply we experience these states, the more finely we can distinguish them. We become fluent in the subtle shades of love—and more able to share them, receive them, and invite more of them into our lives.
 

The next time you feel love or gratitude, pause and feel it throughout your entire being.

When something feels precious, don’t rush past it. As Morter encourages, let yourself experience what precious actually feels like.

What does awe feel like?

What does tenderness feel like?

What does devotion feel like?

Because what we learn to feel, we become more capable of cultivating.

So perhaps this week, practice being a being of love.

Take a breath in.

Feel love.

Take a breath out.

Offer love to everything around you.

And then notice: where is love being offered back to you?

You might even play with the simple intention:

I am love.

The practice isn’t about creating something that wasn’t there before.

It is about becoming quiet enough to feel the vibration that has been moving through us—and everything around us—all along.

And perhaps, as we learn to recognize and live the many shades of love, we will rediscover the very essence of ourselves.

If this idea resonates with you, I invite you to explore Dr. Sue Morter’s ‘The Anatomy of Awakening ‘. I am thoroughly enjoying it. She ties together our connection to the universe and our experience of being a living flow of energy in beautiful, accessible, and deeply consumable ways.

With love and resonance,

 

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