A Light Motif
Now the core intuition of all the great systems of the spirit is that love is captured best by the image of light. Kabbala teaches that the light which fills the vessels of creation is love.
The word Torah itself – an all-encompassing Hebrew term meant to refer to all divine wisdom – means light. (Interestingly, the Hebrew word for light – Orah – is also the basis for the English word aura.)
This idea is not just a nice image;
it has fantastic implications for the nature of giving. Usually, when I give you something, it means that you now have it and I do not.
Not so in reference to light and love. One candle can light a hundred candles without losing any of its own brilliance. It is for this reason precisely that light was held to be the incarnation of love.
When you give in love, much like a candle, you are able to illuminate many people without ever losing any of your own luminescence.
Giving love only creates more.
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Being luminous, illuminating those around us is the reciprocity of love in action. It may not happen instantly, sometimes it takes a life time, but bit by bit the radiant flame illuminates those we touch, one, by one. I used to buy flowers from a man at a farmers market I went to when I lived in San Diego each week, just to feel his radiant spirit. His flowers were like all the other vendors, his prices were the same, but the smile on his face as he greeted me each week, the way he said hello and asked me which “flower friends” I wanted to take home that week to show me their beauty, made me always stop at his stand. Our conversations never went any deeper, but the connection I felt to him and the flowers that lived at my house that week from his stand were a constant reminder that radiance of spirit is passed on, shared and lives on inside of each of us, if we just pay attention, even for the smallest exchange.
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