“Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides, and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.” - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

True love is fire. It burns with a radiance that lights all beacons. Chances are, if you’re living a dead life, you have chosen to be a moth rather than be fire. Moths are attracted to fire, just as fire is attracted to fire. The difference is the moth is controlled by its attraction and gets burned by the fire. Fire, on the other hand, has control over its attraction and it doesn’t get burned. Rather, fire plus fire makes greater fire. Moth plus fire just creates ashes and codependence. If you really want to jumpstart your dead life be fire. Be love. Be fierce in your passion for life. Let the moths be moths, and let the ashes fall where they may.

Being love transcends all forms of love. When you are love, you are in love with being alive. You are in love with all of life, come what may: through good and bad, success or failure, love and loss, life or death.

Being love is unselfish, unconditional love for all things. Agape love. It leaves you in a state of wonder and awe, soul-hungry for more beauty, more mastery, more fire. When you are practicing being love, you are practicing sacred presence. And it’s almost impossible to be a moth while in the ecstatic throes of sacred presence.