How are you feeling right now? I’m not talking about how you are feeling about something that may be happening in your life.

I’m talking about the basic feeling of you.

What does it feel like to be you? Is it a good feeling, or not so good?

Of course, if something is taking place in your life such as a death in the family, the death or illness of a friend or beloved pet, a divorce, an issue with your work, or some form of drama with your children, you are not going to feel good about that.

Have you ever really plunged into emptiness? I’m talking about the emptiness that so many of us feel within ourselves.

Of course, most of us run from feeling this emptiness by keeping ourselves busy, staying on the move, playing the radio or some other source of sound, talking incessantly, reading and in countless other ways avoiding ever really taking the plunge.

We don’t want to plunge into the emptiness within because whenever we even get a whiff of it, it feels bottomless.

Once we are in touch with our authentic center, we discover that it’s nature is love. So much so that you might say love is what we are.

I’m not talking about love toward a particular person, a pet, something in nature, or an activity. I mean just love, with no object.

I don’t think we are used to thinking of love this way. We almost always want to tie it to someone or something that evokes love in us. We think love has to have an object.