This Week’s Quotation:
Through thine own experience in the letting, thou shalt see that it is easy to distinguish the inner urge from the outer idea, in that the inner urge is ALWAYS vibrating to the force of love, thinking not of itself but giving every consideration to the radiation of light, love and life in a lasting service to mankind. The outer idea vibrates to WHAT IT THINKS. The inner urge vibrates to WHAT IT KNOWS. The outer idea is concerned about itself or those who are of family ties or selfish choice, as it is also concerned about things, and ways and means. The inner urge gives no thought to persons, places or things, and gives no heed to ways and means, for it knows that all that is necessary is provided already, and to it one person is as worthy as another, being no respecter of persons because it makes the ever-present moment supreme in radiation.
~ Lloyd Arthur Meeker
The Soul of Love
Attunement Teacher and Practitioner
These incredibly life-giving words fill me with questions.
Like trying to fit the ocean into a teacup, what happens when we try to measure infinite love with finite understanding? How do we discern the vast ocean of loving inner knowing from the carefully measured cups of our thoughts?
We spend much of our lives as teacups. We know exactly how much we can hold, whom we can serve, and under what conditions we function best. Our teacup nature manifests in how we love: We portion love carefully. We worry about running dry.
But the Soul of Love, in its truest essence, is not a teacup. It’s the ocean. How can we possibly contain this? How can we control it, direct it, and ensure it serves our purposes? We can’t. And that’s precisely the point.
Instead of “How much love can I hold?” the oceanic Soul of Love asks, “Why hold at all?”
Therein lies the paradox—in losing the teacup, we gain the ocean. In surrendering our carefully measured love, we become love itself. Love is what remains when we start allowing and stop trying to fit the infinite into finite forms.
The teacup doesn’t become a bigger teacup, it dissolves completely into the ocean it once tried to contain. In the end, the question isn’t whether we’re ready to become the ocean. We already are the ocean, playing at being teacups.
The real question is are we ready to remember? Are we ready to let the Soul of Love be what it truly is— boundless, unconditional, and free?
The answer lies not in thinking, but in discerning and letting.
Not in holding, but in flowing.
Not in measuring, but in being.
What Is Attunement?
Attunement is a consciousness practice and an energy medicine practice that leads to personal spiritual regeneration.
This blog is so striking and thought-provoking. Thank you for sharing it. It’s reminding me of how much my thinking can restrict the full truth of what’s happening around me. As I navigate this human experience, I’m realizing that I often only see a fraction of the bigger picture. This encourages me to keep my mind open, offer grace to myself and others, and yield to that infinite part of me that knows.
The teacup metaphor is particularly powerful. How often do I try to measure or contain love, fearing it might run out? But as you beautifully describe, love isn’t something to hold or measure—it’s something to be. Letting go of the need to control it feels both challenging and liberating, and it invites me to trust the vastness of what’s already within and around me.
I feel inspired to lean more into that inner urge vibrating with love, instead of the outer ideas shaped by fear or limitation. To let go of holding, and simply allow the flow.
Thank you for this gentle and profound reminder to remember who we truly are… boundless, unconditional, and free.
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Beautiful and poetic, loved it !
YES! FLOWING, NOT HOLDING! BEING! LOVING! thank you, Oren. Big aloha, Tom
Interesting reading this today – this morning I read a story from a Teacher who told the story of a woman whose husband was not willing to keep their agreement during a divorce about splitting their assets. She finally gave in as it was causing so much stress. Ironically (or wonderfully), a very dear friend of hers contacted her after her divorce was final, to let her know that she was leaving her vast estate to this woman as she had no relatives. The friend didn’t even know about the divorce or her friends situation at the time. The letting go ultimately opened a whole new door of grace to her.
How beautifully, Oren, you have once again described our essential spiritual work. We’re not here to somehow hold onto love and try to contain it in a teacup. Letting Love FLOW is our very nature, dissolving the teacup, replacing mental discernment with spiritual discernment, the only way that humanity can regenerate and thrive once again on earth.