This Week’s Quotation:
The gold-bearing quartz that humanity is responds not to the processes of refining which man has designed and attempted to use…however the Master’s way of refining in the fire of love has proven to bring a rich reward of pure gold, and it is seen that though the gold and the dross have been so mixed together in the quartz as to appear to be blended, the gold that is drawn forth in the furnace is as pure and perfect as any other.
~ Lloyd Arthur Meeker
The Refining Fire of Love
Attunement Teacher and Practitioner
Like precious gold threaded through common quartz, divinity permeates human nature in veins both visible and hidden. Yet how do we relate to ourselves and others when our highest aspirations are mixed with our deepest flaws?
In the world of personal development, we’re constantly presented with new methods for improving ourselves. Each promises to be the key that will unlock our highest potential. From austere spiritual practices to modern psychological techniques, we’ve developed intricate systems aimed at refining human nature. Yet, like miners using the wrong tools to extract gold from quartz, something essential seems to resist these human-designed approaches.
But there’s another way of understanding human potential—one that recognizes love as the ultimate refining fire. Not the sentimental love of greeting cards, but rather the fundamental reality that underpins existence itself.
Unlike mechanical or intellectual approaches to transformation, love operates at the deepest level of being. It doesn’t pulverize, force, or fragment but rather allows natural unraveling to occur between what’s authentic and what’s superficial in human nature. Love operates as a refining fire that naturally separates truth from illusion.
This process reveals something remarkable: the pure gold of our true nature remains uncontaminated despite our earthly journey thoroughly blended with temporary limitations.
No matter what we’re going through, patient alchemy in the refining fire of love continuously reveals the golden treasure of Being hidden in plain sight.
What Is Attunement?
Attunement is a consciousness practice and an energy medicine practice that leads to personal spiritual regeneration.
As the decades have passed in my work as a transpersonal counselor and energy healer, I have distilled the essence of transformational work to this “refining fire of love”. It’s always been there, burning with supernal light, awaiting our remembrance, readiness, and surrender. Breathtaking! Thank you for so clearly expressing this vital truth. I pray we will all open our hearts to Love’s fire and invite it to heal and transform every aspect of ourselves and our lives. Love the love that loves us!
Love this – No matter what we’re going through, patient alchemy in the refining fire of love continuously reveals the golden treasure of Being hidden in plain sight – thank you so much for the reminder!
Oren, you have beautifully described the natural creative process that operates in the lives of those who have embraced spirituality and devoted their lives to bringing the spiritual imperative into their own incarnate vehicle and into the mass consciousness of humanity. Thanks for your insight and wisdom.
Many thanks, Oren, for such poetically expressed fine thoughts. It may take time but the refinement by fire is occurring to any who seek to express true Divine identity. To any who are reading I also highly recommend the Attunement course, readings, and other opportunities publicized on this site. Aloha from Oahu, Tom C.