Marci Shimoff Speaks on Love & Happiness
The only answer that came to me was unconditional love. I think it’s the only thing that trumps happiness. What I mean by Love for No Reason, is a state of love that doesn’t depend on any circumstance or condition. We all are love. It is our essence. But for most of us, we have a lot of blocks covering that up. And our job is to remove those blocks to experience the essence of what we really are.
I wrote the book to find out: Can you really live in a state of love without conditions?
What were some of the highlights? What are the keys to achieving love for no reason?
The three main things I learned, I call them the Love Mantras.
The first love mantra is:
Love is who we are, it’s our essential nature. Most of us have been mis-taught, and think we need to get love from outside of us. So we become love beggars, where we’re walking around like a beggar with a cup saying, here, fill up my cup with love. When you recognize that you are the ocean of life, instead of trying to get drops of water out of other people, we are the ocean, which is naturally overflowing. Instead of being a love beggar we become a love philanthropist.
The second love mantra is: The purpose of our life is to expand and love. It’s why we’re on the planet. If you ask people who’ve had a near death experience, they almost all report back that we have a life review and a final exam. And the final exam is a one-question exam: The only question is, “How much did you expand your capacity to love?” This isn’t the kind of exam you can cram for, this is what our lives on planet earth are about.
